Real-time event on festival day with pre-registration required. You can find the registration link near the top of the program page when the link is ready.
This event is open to all singers, accompanied or unaccompanied, and musicians. Please bring your own songs (or music) on this theme. Everyone will have a chance to participate and share their song. Linn is keen to share a song or too as well, as she has sung songs (in English and in Gaelic) about whaling, which has been a part of history, for ship concerts in the Arctic, Greenland, Canada and Antarctica.
Linn Phipps is a UK based traditional singer in English and Gaelic. She has hugely enjoyed using Zoom for transatlantic sings and workshops, and for meeting friends old and new. Usually, she sings as a soloist, with musician friends, in a folk group, and with two Gaelic choirs; and at ceilidhs in Scotland and the North of England. She has also sung competitively, gaining the Royal National Mòd’s Silver Pendant, the highest award for learners of Gaelic. During the Covid lockdown period, she has successfully hosted regular Zoom singarounds in both languages with worldwide participation, and has participated in about 500 regular Zoom sings with the USA, Ireland, France, and Australia as well as the UK. She has led singaround sessions and learn-song workshops at a number of USA folk festivals, with great feedback. As a result, she was asked to start a monthly free Zoom learn-song class! More here: www.linnphippsfolk.co.uk.