Music and landscape

The land has such a presence in music, especially the sort of music we find here along the music road. It can be anchor or destination, part of the journey, image in memory, a place of hope, a place of dreams -- and sometimes, all of those at once.


The Barra MacNeils, for example, sing of history and present day in their home place of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
Julie Fowlis often turns to songs set in the landscapes of her native Hebrides, in Scotland.
Carrie Newcomer finds inspiration in geodes, common rocks in the landscape where she lives in Indiana.














two quiet mountain landscapes:
the Canadian Rockies and the Mountains of Mourne in Northern Ireland


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