Tour Scotland Video Gaelic Mouth Music Song Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a gaelic mouth music song by the Horsecross Gle' singers on ancestry visit to Greyfriars Bar in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. There are many examples in Gaelic tradition of the lively dance-songs known as Puirt-à-beul. Puirt-à-beul means 'tunes from the mouth' and they’re also known in English as mouth music. Puirt is the plural of the word port and so a single dance song would be known as a port-à-beul. These are not so much songs as instrumental tunes that are sung.

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