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Margaret Stewart is an award winning Gaelic singer from the Isle-of-Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. She has three studio albums to her name and a number of collaborative recordings. A native Gael and Gaelic speaker, born and brought up in the Outer Hebrides, Margaret has a great passion for the songs and culture of her homeland. As well as her musical performances, in collaboration with the some of the cream of Highland and Irish musicians, she is also in demand as a mentor, teacher and lecturer on various themes of Gaelic song and related history.

Margaret has amassed an impressive repertoire of songs, over the years, and has recorded two seminal albums with pipers Allan and Iain MacDonald  ('Fhuair mi Pog'  and  Colla Mo Rùn') and a solo album (Togaidh mi mo Sheòlta), on the Greentrax label.  She continues to develop performances and recording collaborations with some of Gaeldom’s finest musicians and regularly performs with harp virtuoso Ingrid Henderson. 

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Margaret's recording of Òran a' Mhetagama, composed by her great uncle, Seonaidh, from Outend Coll, has been used extensively this year for events and programmes commemorating 100 years since the sailing of the emigrant ship, Metagama. The CPR Liner sailed from the Isle of Lewis, on 21st April, 1923 with 300 young men and women from the island on board.

Following World War II, there was little work available on the island and they were enticed by the persuasive public speeches of Canadian emigration agents, to leave their homelands work and work as farm labourers in Canada.  

The loss to our island culture and our Gaelic language is incalculable, following the First World War, the sinking of the SS Iolaire with returning servicemen on 1st Jan 1919, further losses during the Second World War and the hundreds of economic migrantswho departed on the Metagama, the Marloch and the Canada in 1923 and 1924.

It was a haemorrhage of many of our finest and fittest and its effects, in terms of our language, culture and economy, were felt for generations afterwards. 

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