Music interview: Mary Ann Kennedy on celebrating the Clyde at this year’s Mòd

Back in 1988, as the Glasgow Garden Festival was in full efflorescence on the south bank of the Clyde, just across the river, Mary Ann Kennedy was winning the coveted Gold Medal for Gaelic singing at the National Mòd. She celebrated by nipping across the newly opened Bell’s Bridge to the periphery of the Garden Festival, where there was an ice cream parlour: “It was probably Nardini’s,” she recalls, “but by some weird coincidence they had an ice cream flavour called ‘Gold Medal’.”