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Meet one of the Fèis 2026! Yukon Gaelic Festival's featured bands: Stockstill & Rose. Stockstill & Rose is a jaunty “Northern Gypsy bluegrass" duo, based in Whitehorse, Yukon. They have been playing together for 10 years, but also have decades of performing and touring in other bands under their belts. While their music is based on the traditional sounds of banjo and fiddle bluegrass and old-time sounds, they also love to weave in Eastern European and gypsy jazz tunes and stylistics, and...

Today is the 280th anniversary of the battle that took place on April 16, 1746, near Inverness, Scotland known as The Battle of Culloden. We remember The afternoon sun slants occasionally piercing the sky clogged with clouds My chest tight old vague angry sorrow sharpened by an arsenal of facts The highland cows grazing the wind caressing little wisps of hair escaping their containment A place of mass death now of heavy peace cairns etched out lay along trails everlasting corpses Feelings...

Documentaries and Dramas - we've got it for you at our Fèis 2026 Gaelic Film Screening! Here is a sneak peak on what to expect: The Wake of Calum MacLeod / Faire Chaluim Mhic Leòid Production Company: Film 5 Language: Scottish Gaelic Writer/Director: Marc Almon Genre: Drama Runtime: 8min A lonely storyteller will do anything to have his grown children return home – even if it requires staging his own funeral. Synopsis: When his children left home years ago, renowned storyteller Calum MacLeòid...