Julie Fowlis grew up in North Uist, a small island in the Outer Hebrides, in a Gaelic speaking community, and has been involved in singing, piping and dancing since she was a child. Julie Fowlis Video.
North
Uist in History and Legend Like all the Hebrides, North
Uist has a fascinating history, and a landscape scattered with
historic sites, from Neolithic burial chambers and Iron Age
forts, though medieval churches and battle-sites, to townships
forged in the days of kelp trade, and the subsequent traumas
of clearance and emigration. Of all the Western Isles, none
has closer links with the turbulent history of Clan Donald than
North Uist, and stories of their chiefs and battles are linked
with sites all through the island, all set in a landscape which
is one of the most varied and beautiful in the Hebrides. Bill
Lawson has woven a tapestry of stories about the island and
its people, drawing on formal recorded history and also the
rich tradition of story and song in which the informal history
of the people was passed down, but also incorporating many of
his personal reminiscences of his travels through the island,
to give a unique insight into North Uist and the life of its
people through the ages.
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