St John's C of E Primary School
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Euros 2024 - Scotland: Julie Fowlis 10.6.24
The 2024 UEFA European Football Championship (sometimes simply called Euro 2024) is hosted by Germany this year. It is taking place from 14th June until the 14th July. There are 24 teams taking place. Germany automatically qualified but the remaining 23 teams have had to play qualifying matches.
In the run up to the final, we are going to visit some of the countries who have made it into the competition and listen to some of their traditional music, or to the music of some of their most famous composers.
This week we travel north of England and head to Scotland.
Scotland – Gaelic songs
Julie Fowlis is a Scottish folk singer and multi-instrumentalist who sings mostly in Scottish Gaelic. Gaelic was a spoken language in Scotland in about the 13th Century.
Here are two of her Gaelic songs. The second one is a mystical song about a young girl who meets a water horse and translates as ‘O love, let me home to my mother’.
You may also know her voice from the soundtrack to Brave. She sings two songs on the film: ‘Touch the sky’ and ‘into the open air’. She was also a vocal coach for singers on the ‘How to Train your Dragon soundtrack’.