An Ghearmáin/Germany Art agus Tomaí san Eoraip

-My name is Gunther.

-Gunther, I'm Art from Ireland.

I'm selling my spices, my tea and herbs.

When you stopped working at the electric store,

were your friends shocked?

No. No, no.

-You have a knife.

-Yes, I have a knife, my husband made it for me.

-Hand-made.

-OK.

-Very nice, I see, yes.

-Look at that, this sign. You know that?

-Yeah, we do, claddagh.

It's from my best friend, she give it me and she's from Ireland

and she says it will protect me from people who come from England.

-Are you from England or from Ireland?

-From Ireland.

-That's good!

What sort of music can we expect tonight?

Uh, I think you should expect some sort of Celtic music.

So we're doing...

a lot of influence of Scottish, Irish music, Galician music,

German music and rock music

and we just combine it into our own music.

It's not just the music. It's the tattoos, the Celtic gear, the kilt.

It's lifestyle. In privacy, I'm the same as on the stage,

so there's no difference.

HE SPEAKS IN GERMAN

Why do you think German people are so interested in Celtic music

-and Irish culture?

-That's a riddle to me but it's like that.

We play on big venues, no Celtic venues,

and we play just our own songs. We play no cover songs.

We even don't play Whisky In The Jar or something like that.

We play our songs and everybody liked it and it sounds Irish.

FIDDLE MUSIC STARTS

For Germans, it's like Irish music is what we do.

For Irish people, it's not Irish.

-Do you feel that the Celtic heritage is a big thing for you?

-For me, yeah.

The whole thing, the whole culture. It's my lifestyle, it's what I am.

# My name is John O'Malley

# I was born in County Clare

# I can surely play the whistle

# I can dance like Fred Astaire

# Take a look to the west

# From the hills behind the sea

# I know the war is coming

# Fight for being free

# Oh ohh-ohhhh. #

APPLAUSE

MUSIC: Raggle Taggle Gypsy

-I'm fine.

-Pleased to meet you. All right?

-Wie gehts? Wie gehts?

I'm fine. Welcome to good old Scomany - Scottish Germany.

That's my...that's my absolutely Scottish place.

Tell us how you got into tartan and Scotland in the first place.

I was born in the Highlands of Scotland.

I have a Scottish father and a German mother.

Unfortunately, I grew up in Germany so I built my own Scomany!

So, yes, I have Scottish roots.

Hello!

Yes, it's my tartan museum.

We collect all tartans of Scotland,

all the important families and clans.

You can find all the tartan at the wall, you know,

and we have a couple of, er...

and the books as well. And look over there, that's an original claymore.

-Yeah. Really a big sword and very heavy.

-What date is that?

It comes from the 17th century. It's really an old one.

And we have a collection of typical Scottish dirks

and you can find quaichs. You know, a quaich for a whisky bowl.

Yes, we collect that all for a long time and then I thought

that would be good to present that to the people in Germany.

-Or Scomany! I do prefer this word.

-Scotland and Germany.

Yes, Scottish Germany.

Look, that's a portrait of me. A friend did it.

It presented me as a Scottish laird

and you can find the wolf cos it's part of my name.

'Basil Wolrhine, live on air by Schotten Radio.'

And this is my recording studio. And every day I do my show here.

I love radio, Basil, how did you get started with the station?

Four years ago, I found the radio station.

The reason was there was no radio station for Celtic music

in the whole of Germany.

Do you know anything about your listenership?

How many people tune in every week?

Yes, we have actually the whole time about 50,000.

We are totally happy with that.

We started with a couple of listeners, only 50 listeners,

four years ago and so the success is actually good.

Do you have any from Scotland or Ireland?

Yeah, we have always about 10,000 listeners from Ireland.

Worldwide, yeah, we have

listeners from New Zealand, England, Scotland, Ireland as well of course.

Basil, would you like myself

and Art to do a bit of broadcasting here on Schotten Radio?

-I would LOVE that, yeah!

-So would we, Basil. Let's go.

Hey, cool! Come on.

And you can take this seat, probably. Aye, cool!

RADIO TRAIL IN GERMAN

OK, guys, let's do radio!

HE SINGS IN GAELIC

Wow!

What a pleasure!

Well done.

Here we are!

Sandwiches and beer.

-This is what you need. Slainte.

-Slainte.

-Slainte.

-Slainte.

# My heart's in the Highlands

# My heart is not here

# My heart's in the Highlands

# A-chasing the deer

# A-chasing the wild deer

# And following the roe

# My heart's in the Highlands

# Wherever I go. #

Alba gu brath!

SPEAKS IN GERMAN

APPLAUSE

Harry, I see you're holding the horn.

Can you tell me what the significance of this object is?

The images that you see here are taken from the Gundestrup cauldron.

You see typical Celtic pictures here.

Do you drink from this, or what do you do with this horn?

If you want to drink, you can fill all the water of the oceans

in there and it would not fit because there's a hole in here!

And the meaning is to give a signal.

When I do presentation stories, I blow in the horn like...

BOOMING NOTE

You're obviously a man with passion for your craft

and you're kitted out in the whole gear today,

do you feel you're taking on the tradition, moving it forward,

this sort of bardic, poetic tradition for the modern ages?

You can really say so.

If you are a story teller, you feel you are one in a chain

of many before you and that come after you.

As a story teller, you are not important,

you have to make the story alive.

HE SPEAKS IN GERMAN

You know many stories from all over Europe and all over the world,

but you also have some stories from our country, from Ireland.

That's true, yeah.

I do an Irish story which is called the Story Teller At Fault

and also two parts of the Ulster Cycle.

You have different layers of the Irish folk tradition.

You mentioned the Ulster Cycle, how important for you

would the Ulster Cycle be for European heritage?

I think it is very, very important because we have

in Germany, Austria and Switzerland the core land of the Celts.

But everything has vanished apart from archaeological findings.

But you have through Ireland,

these stories are going back to the Iron Age time

and my approach is the Ulster Cycle, the Finn Cycle,

the way the stories are told, the pattern,

the themes of the stories, you can

tell them in a village like here and you could assume that the people,

the Celts of the continent would have

told their stories like this as well,

just with different names and different places.

How did Altburg all begin?

The Altburg Festival begins in 1988, 1987.

First of all, it was a mini-festival

and now it is big with about 2,500 visitors that came on this weekend.

More and more people want to go back to nature and I think it's a little

bit of philosophy to go back to this nature, to the roots of the Celtics.

Myself and Art have really enjoyed the atmosphere at this year's

festival, but what are the plans for next year?

Next year is the 25th year. That will be a really great party.

We plan to get some music from Ireland to play here.

And that would be really great.

# We are the mainland Celts

# Our presence can still be felt

# Empires have come and gone

# But we're still here to sing our song

# Will you go? Here we go

# Ready to go. Go Celtic!

# Will you go?

# Here we go

# Ready to go

# Go Celtic!

# Will you go?

# Here we go

# Ready to go

# Go Celtic!

# Here we go! Here we go!

# Ready to go

# Go Celtic! Go Celtic! #

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