Gugalai Gug plus music QR code

This collection of traditional children’s rhymes from the Irish tradition consists of a full-colour book and lavishly-produced album available online by scanning QR codes.

There are 29 tracks on the album: a lively mix of rhymes, a few children’s songs and one piece of virtuoso lilting or traditional mouth music. There’s even a traditional step dancer, lending his exuberant rhythms to the mix.

A nervous hen frets about where she should build her nest. A family of little green frogs learns how to swim. A strange chap called Máirtín goes for walks in the dead of night, especially if it’s raining. Gugalaí Gug is bristling with weird and wonderful characters and fun scenarios that will fire your imagination.

Cearc nach bhfuil in ann socrú cá ndéanfaidh sí a nead. Froganna beaga glasa atá ag foghlaim cén chaoi le snámh. Fear aisteach darbh ainm Máirtín, ar maith leis bheith amuigh san oíche dhubh, is an bháisteach ag titim anuas go tiubh.

Tá Gugalaí Gug lán de charachtair agus de radharcanna a bhéarfas greim ar do shamhlaíocht. Cnuasach atá ann de rannta traidisiúnta ó Ghaeltacht Chonamara, atá foilsithe i bhfoirm leabhair lándaite agus albam a bhfuil léiriúchán maisiúil déanta air. Tá deich bpíosa ar fhichead ar fad san áireamh ann, idir rannta, amhrán nó dhó agus dreas portaireacht béil.

Athchruthaithe don 21ú hAois ag Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin agus John Ryan.

Bronnann an IRMA, Irish Recorded Music Association, dioscaí óir ar albaim mar aitheantas ar dhíolachán os cionn 7,500 cóip agus thuill Gugalaí Gug! an t-aitheantas sin go hoifigiúil in 2011.

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