manx celtic music and dance

Ny Jinnyn win Arrane son Mannin

01 Jan 1970

Competition organiser and IOM Pan-Celtic delegate, Fiona McArdle, reports:

This year’s Arrane son Mannin competition, sponsored by the Manx Heritage Foundation, held at the Masonic Hall, Peel, as part of the Cooish Inter-Gaelic Festival may have only attracted one entry, but it’s a great song. Written and performed by ‘Ny Jinnyn’, it relates a tale of one of the writer’s family from a night remembered only too well in the Isle of Man - the night that Summerland burned down. ‘’Sy Ghrianane’ tells the story of one family’s anguish which turned to joy when they learned that their daughter Vicky, thought to be in Summerland, had not actually gone there with her friends and so had a particularly lucky escape. The song was written by Vicky’s brother Dave, with help from other members of the group, translated into Manx by Bob Carswell, and sung by Dave’s daughter Alanna. The members of Ny Jinnyn will take their song to represent the Isle of Man at the 40th Pan-Celtic Festival, to be held in Dingle Town, County Kerry in Easter week 2011.

If you want to enter next year’s competition, it’s never too early to start working on a song with a helpful translator - contact Fiona on fmcardle@manx.net for details.

 

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