Support the Podcast & get extra content here: https://www.patreon.com/TomFandabidoziMy guest today is Madge Bray. Madge was born ”Margery Allan” into a long line of village Scots traditional poets musicians and storytellers from the village of Ballater .She was born into the carrying stream where a cultural inheritance of musical expression was second nature . She encountered our ancient Keening Tradition first as a young woman . Madge undertook pioneering work in trauma resolution internationally where she studied sound in human harmonisation – and her journey eventually took her to the High Caucasus mountains and polyphonic grief ritual .You can see her YouTube channel here – https://youtube.com/@traditionalfutures?si=0JH0TcPGvOXUQti-Her recent odyssey with cancer and music is contained in the Ebb and Flow playlist on Traditional Futures . Here https://youtu.be/TbnpQacu92Y?is=0YkAlENQ_jWmdLX7Her article on Restoring the Feminine in Scottish Lament is here: https://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TIS/article/view/3174Her books ”Poppies on the Rubbish Heap – Sexual Abuse the Child’s Voice” and ”Rob the Robin and the Bald Eagle” can be obtained online.She has another book ”Songs in the Breastmilk” Coming out soon . Sometimes she can offer one to one (or up to two ) in house sharing's for those who seek more inner explorations in our Scot’s traditional musical medicine , deep in Assynt .Pm her on Facebook messenger if this resonates . She also teaches on the Keening Module of Weaving Remembrance . https://weavingremembrance.org/