Right - the youngest participant in the Celtic Connections Scottish Traditional Lullabies workshop in 2007

: Photo by Marsaili Stewart-Skinner

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

NEW CD

Christina is currently recording "Haunting": a new project focusing on Scottish beliefs in the supernatural.  A new double CD will be launched in 2012, with one CD of songs and an accompanying CD of the stories associated with them. 

PAST EVENTS

Watch moments from a couple of past events on youTube:

Christina teaching the 'Hey Jock ma Cuddy' dandling song in Glasgow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L35_dbzAl-I

Excerpts from Christina's Playsongs for Bigger Bairns workshop in Glasgow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOHoVTllR5s

Previous events have included

• Collaborating with Health Visitor on joint lullaby and baby massage sessions on the Black Isle

• providing Gaelic traditional song and working with dance tutor to create dance with youth group

• Singing Puirt a Beul (Gaelic "mouth music") for step-dance group Heilan Toe for Strathpeffer Pavillion and Dannsa DVD launch on Cairngorm Mountain

• Gaelic Playground Games sessions in East Sutherland schools encouraging better integration of Gaelic-medium and English-medium pupils

• Youth Music Initiative sessions in Highland schools for Fèis Rois, teaching traditional song through lively activities focusing on the aspects of listening, rhythm, lyrics, melody and vocal control

• Traditional Song evening classes in Inverness for TMC at Highland Council exploring Scotland's song tradition, learning some songs in Scots and Gaelic and the traditions out of which they come, thinking about content and presentation, too

• Blas Festival "Fringe" - series of workshops with Highland schoolchildren and croileagan to co-incide with the Blas festival

• Learning with Lullabies project with the Care and Learning Alliance devising and delivering a total of 90 sessions visiting 20 parent and Toddler groups with a series of 4 interactive song workshops in each and 10 hours of Fora for adults involved in childcare
• kist o dreams project providing support and resource assistance for new parents to encourage them to sing lullabies from Scottish tradition with their newborns
• Gaelic Song classes for Fèis Rois and Highland Council, teaching traditional lullabies and other songs through games, arts and crafts for ages 4 to adult
• Eden Court Theatre’s  Scrambled Arts and education outreach programme teaching traditional songs for parents with very young children, older children and adults
• Course tutor for training day on The Power of Lullabies for Experiential Play in Glasgow for adult professional childcare workers 
• traditional song classes over a long weekend at Adult Fèis Gleann Albainn in Fort Augustus and the family Fèis Garbh Chriochan in Drumnadrochit and the day-long Fèis an t-Stratha
• Playground activities and singing games to support Gaelic language and culture in primary schools and croileagan in Nairn

Any age group can be catered for, formal or informal, and sessions can be tied in with others.

Workshop and group visit fees vary; as a guideline,

• a one-off 40-60 min songtime session for young children with adults will be charged at £45 plus travel,
• a 90 min song workshop for older children or adults will be charged at £75 plus travel,
• half a day's attendance at a festival or conference leading workshops or seminars will be charged at £90, a full day at £180, plus expences
• evening performance set is £120 per artist

Christina also offers other workshops, such as traditional songs for tots and tinies, Gaelic waulking songs and puirt a beul, wherever possible based on the theory that we learn from what we do, far better than from what we are told.

Bill Taylor is a very experienced harp teacher specialising in Medieval harp, wire strung technique and accompaniment of traditional song.

You can telephone Christina on 01997 433201 or email info@kistodreams.org.