Scotland is home to an incredible wealth and variety of sacred song traditions with unique and varied histories, providing soundtracks to peoples’ daily lives for generations. In this combined talk and performance, ethnomusicologist Frances Wilkins, together with Gaelic singer Kristine Kennedy, explores some of these traditions including Gaelic psalmody, hymnody and bàrdachd.

Public talk as part of the British Academy’s ‘Memory through Melody: Celebrating Sung Histories’ event at The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH