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We were on Skye for Easter and I saw in the Skye Magazine that Blair Douglas's Gaelic Mass is being held at St Mary's Church in Portree in Sept as part of the Blas festival. We went to this church for the Easter Vigil Mass, it is lovely, light wood and a big clear window. It was completed about 2 years ago but we didn't managed to go until this visit to Skye. The Vigil Mass was sung and very beautiful, but they didn't include any Gaelic singing.

He is also doing it in the Inverness Cathedral as part of Blas. It should be pretty special.

Good article in today's Herald about Blair's Mass and his recent premiere at the Tattoo.

http://www.theherald.co.uk/search/displ ... y_mass.php

We're planning to go to the one in Portree on Sunday evening! It's also on in Fort William on Saturday.

We attended Blair's Gaelic Mass in Portree as part of the Blas festival. It was a moving experience and the church, St Mary's, was very crowded.

There were Inverness Gaelic choir together with several musicians playing pipes, harp, flute, violins etc. The choral and musical arrangments were prepared by Andy Thorburn from Blazing Fiddles. who was also the conductor. The concert was being recorded, so I hope that it may be available on CD?

Arthur Cormack and Fr Seamus (parish priest) welcomed us in Gaelic and English and Andy Thorburn explained the order of the peices. Blair has composed some hymns and instrumentals which were played before and after the five parts of the Mass.

Blair stood modestly at the back, and was pulled up to the front at the end by Fr and Andy Thorbun for emotional applause. I do hope the Gaelic speaking Catholic Church adopts the music for regular use, as Fr and the diocese seem very into the musical liturgy.