Songs of the Earth

In March 2020 the world as we know it shuddered to a standstill.

Humanity, for the first time in living memory, was bound together and forced to look critically at itself and how it relates to the world we live in. The loss of freedoms we have always taken for granted has forced us to examine our lives and our relationships with each other. It has also enabled many of us to reconnect with our natural environment, to find dormant connections to
our land and sea.

Songs of the Earth features some of those connections and includes singers from the Irish, Native American and Sami cultures. Their songs explore the diverse relationships that exist to the natural world and how these are expressed in terms of community and their integration into the landscape around them.

“Songs of the Earth”, created by three film makers spread between Ireland, Sápmi and the USA, gives us a glimpse of that timeless, ever changing beauty that is within every living thing, unifying the world within its sinuous and powerful melody. This film brings together four unique cultural voices, Irish, Sámi and Native American, that somehow show that balance that can be found in song between the elemental and human.

Commissioned by the Tampere Vocal Music Festival
In association with The Sámi Cultural Center Sajos - Säämi kulturkuávdáš

Languages : Irish, Inari Sami, English.

Featuring
Kuobžâ-Piäká Ánná / Anna Morottaja (a singer of the Inari Sámi livđe)
Arlie Neskahi, of the Diné Nation (Navajo) is a composer, musician and recording artist
Ellie Nic Fhionnghaile is a singer and fiddle player from Gleann Cholm Cille, Co. Donegal
Fergus Cahillane is a singer and multi-instrumentalist.