My name is Amy Johnson, and I am new to this list. I have been reading all of the messages for the last couple of weeks and find it very interesting. I am a music major at Colorado State University, with voice as my instrument. My favorite type of music is Celtic music, but unfortunately there are few connections to that here and none, as far as I can tell, at CSU. For this reason, I am learning mostly classical music. Though I like it to an extent, I tire of it quickly and feel burned out. I am also not a very fluent music reader and, in fact, only learned to read it a few years ago when I first enrolled at CSU. I much prefer to learn things by ear. I have been trying to find out as much information as I can about Celtic music on the Internet and have been buying countless albums and looking for songbooks in both English and Irish and Scottish Gaelic. Since I haven�t grown up with this music and haven�t had any real role models, I have to start this way. Does anyone have recommendations as to which songbooks I should start with and where to find them? Many people may be wondering why I have not gone to Ireland and/or Scotland to study. I would love to do this and had been planning to do so since I was a teenager. However, I am visually impaired and got my guide dog, Vonda, three years ago. I discovered that we could not travel together because of the quarantine law, and I certainly would not leave her at home for a semester or a year! So, then, I must wait until the laws change or I am between dogs, whichever comes first. Also, could someone send me a list of some primarily Scottish and Irish Gaelic singers and the best places to buy their albums? I would appreciate it very much. Talk to everyone soon.
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