Keening and the Sounds of Grief in the Scots Tradition
with Madge Bray
In this session Madge will share her explorations in retrieval of the ancient Scottish Keeing tradition as a vehicle for the healthy resolution of community and ancestoral grief.

Madge Bray
Born Margery Allan, into a Scottish Highland family of village musicians, poets and storytellers, Madge Bray worked internationally in the field of childhood trauma, pioneering approaches to trauma resolution.

Exploration of the sounds of dissonance in human suffering, led her to Georgian polyphony and ultimately to cultural retrieval of music, in particular Highland bagpipe lament, as a container for grief within her own Scots tradition.

In this experiental workshop she will share direct personal experience of keeing.

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