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Margaret Stewart is a renowned Gaelic singer from the Isle-of-Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, with a career spanning approximately 20 years, with three studio albums to her name. She has a great passion for the songs and culture of her homeland and quite apart from her musical performances in collaboration with the some of the cream of Highland and Irish musicians, is also in demand as a mentor, teacher and lecturer on various themes of Gaelic song and related history.  Margaret began specialising in pibroch song early in her singing career, amassing an impressive repertoire of songs relating to the music of the great Highland bagpipe, and recorded two seminal albums with pipers Allan and Iain MacDonald  ('Fhuair mi Pog'  and  Colla Mo Rùn' on the Greentrax label).  She continues to develop performances within this genre and other themes, with 'The Margaret Stewart Trio' or in duet with harp virtuoso, Ingrid Henderson. 

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July 2019 sees Margaret returning to the famous Willie Clancy Summer School, in Miltown Malbay, County Clare, Ireland.   

Margaret is due to lead a new song course at Lews Castle College, Stornoway, Isle-of-Lewis in July 2019  (22nd to 26th).  The course will focus on songs and history of the Scottish Gaelic Diaspora. 

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