Play Gaelic

Play Gaelic is the first album by the Scottish Celtic rock band Runrig. It was released in 1978. The band's sound on the album is half way between traditional ceilidh music and pastoral folk as opposed to the harder rock edge which woud characterise the next album the Highland Connection. Many of the tracks have been re-recorded by the band and released in various forms on "Best Ofs". Several of the songs are also now part of the Gaelic songbook, "Tillidh Mi" is a fixture at Feisean, "Cum 'ur n'Aire" is a favourite at the Royal National Mod and "Chì Mi'n Geamhradh" has acted as a Cathy Anne MacPhee album title as well as being re-interpreted by Niteworks, an electronica band from Skye in 2011.