The healing power of songs…
My friend Christi posted this video and while I was watching I realized the woman singing is Margaret Bennett, the mother of the late Scottish piper who passed away in 2005, losing his battle with cancer.
I can’t pretend I know the intensity of the pain a mother suffers when she loses her child. But I can imagine that it must be so devastating. And Margaret found a way to deal with it-singing. Doesn’t it touch the universal chord in all of us? Singing one’s blues is the ultimate consolation.
“How do you come into terms losing a son like that?”
“I think you just have to learn to live with it. I know that anybody who has experience it will tell you that nothing again will ever hurt. But of course, music is a great consolation”.
look for her album : Love and Loss – Remembering Martyn in Scotland’s Music, 2007.
The late Martyn Bennett.
Celtic Music Fan 
I cried as I first listened to the video. The Gaelic (the Scots and the Irish) haven’t lost this way of grieving…but many of us surely have. The music is so hauntingly beautiful and tear-apart, heart wrenching, sad all at once.
It really is a special video. (Thanks for sharing it here in such a beautiful way.)
LikeLike
She is a beautiful and remarkable women. When she said those line it tugged at my heart and made my eyes water. i had to quote her.
LikeLike
Reblogged this on Star in the Stone and commented:
“you feel the pain, but the Gael will linger on it”
…an interview which touches the heart and soul of Celtic music…
LikeLike
Thank you so much. I got goosebumps hearing her speak about dealing with the pain through music. I believe music touches and heals. Thank you so much. It is an honor to know you re blogged this.
LikeLike
I was drawn to this by the poetry of Michael Longely. The loss of a child to s mother or parent is beyond that which is bearable.
” The mother’s lament for her child” which draws on the musical Irish tradition of O’Doirín
LikeLike