The old Gaelic harp music is first and foremost a Gaelic tradition. Developed over centuries in Gaelic-speaking Ireland and Scotland, it was the music of the Gaelic elite, with intimate connections to Gaelic song, poetry, music and art. More...

The old Gaelic harp music is a European tradition, an indigenous art music, with connections to other European musics, and rooted in European art, literature, religion and philosophy. More...

The old Gaelic harp music is an extinct oral tradition. The old harpers did not use writing. To reconstruct and use the old traditions, we are like musical archaeologists, putting together obscure fragments, in the hope that these will combine to illuminate or explain otherwise unknown aspects of the old tradition. More...

Simon Chadwick