September 2019, back in Harris at Talla na Mara playing music by Tobias Hume.
Bass Viol
I love the bass viol and I'm keen to play that instrument and its music in far flung places, or any place where a viol hasn't been sighted recently.
Wherever I go with my viol, folk are so curious about it. For the classical music aficionado it is
no mystery; to others it is a strange and exotic instrument. Have viol, will travel!
Here I am in 2013 at St. Clements church in Rodel on the Isle of Harris, after a short recital of pieces by Captain Tobias Hume. The church is known as Tùr Chliamhainn in Scottish Gaelic, meaning Clement's Tower. It was built in the fifteenth century.
PHOTO: Martin Myers.
PHOTO: Martin Myers.
