Danish singer/songwriter, storyteller and academic Christine Kammerer likes to think of herself as a “new Scot”. She was first drawn to Scotland on being introduced to Scottish folk music traditions in her early teens and visited for the first time when she was 18. “My soul felt alive and at peace at the same time,” she recalls.
“Having the world literally tower over you made me feel small in such a comforting way. Like I’m part of a great whole. The tonality of Celtic folk music makes me feel the same, and my desire to feel the same in my home country of Denmark actually inspired the work I went on to do after finishing my masters.
” Advertisement Advertisement Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Kammerer holds a degree in Musicology and Comparative Cultural Studies and for the past six years she has specialised in ancient Nordic music, with a focus on the Viking Age. “Through studying the sources of early music and playing around with older tonalities and scales on lyres, bone flutes and lurs, I started to feel the same soul connection to the music, even to my heritage, which I did to Celtic folk music and to Scotland.
Since diving deeper into the history of the Vikings and discovering the deep connections between Scotland and S.