Brigh Productions is a partnership of husband and wife Kevin Bree and Anne Lorne Gillies and is registered in Scotland.
In addition to learning materials for Gaelic education - books and talking books - we also produce CDs which can be bought from this website.
We are currently developing a facility for the direct sale of single tracks. Currently tracks can be dowloaded from iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, AmazonMP3, eMusic, AmieStreet, Verizon V-Cast and many more.
You can also listen to some short samples on CDbaby:
The Lady of The Lake CD
White Rose o' June
An Long Hirteach / St Kilda Mailboat
You will find information about Anne Lorne Gillies on her website but here is an introduction in Adobe Reader
format.
Anne Lorne Gillies won the National Mod Gold Medal for Gaelic singing (1962) aged just 17. She is a Gaelic Singer and Activist, Entertainer, Public Speaker, Broadcaster, and Writer. She has a PhD from the University of Glasgow and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Edinburgh.
- She was named Speaker of the Year in 2005 by The Association of Speakers Clubs of Great Britain, previous speakers include Sir Peter Ustinov CBE, Sir John Harvey Jones MBE and The Rt. Hon. Tony Benn MP.
- In 2003 Rotary International awarded her the Paul Harris Fellowship in recognition of her work for charitable and cultural organisations.
- For her book Songs of Gaelic Scotland Anne won The Ratcliff Prize in 2006 for an important contribution to the study of Folklore or Folk Life in Great Britain and Ireland.
- In 2007 she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the UHI (University of the Highlands and Islands Millennium Institute) for her contributions to Gaelic language and culture.
- In October the Scottish Government awarded Anne the honour of being Scotland's Ambassador for Gaelic, Tosgair na Gaidhlig for the year 2009-2010.
Kevin Bree followed his life long interests in audio, photography and technology working in Grampian Television, London Weeken Television and Scottish Television where he worked in most areas of television engineering including studio sound, presentation, telecine, VTR and vision. He retired in 2000 from his position of Outside broadcast Manager in Scottish Television after 27 years working in O.Bs.
He first became interested in computers in the 1960's (the PDP8) and learned how to program in machine code; he used the Open University BOBCAT (Ball Operated Binary Computer And Tutor); he was one of the first enthusiasts to buy a BBC Micro home computer in 1981 and had all the "extras" like the DFS, 6502 Second Processor, Watford Electronics Sideways RAM, Teletext Adapter and Modem which allowed access to Prestel and Micronet, the predessors of the World Wide Web.
(Sadly the BBC Micro has been superceded by much more powerful machines...)