...de The Sun:
Nestling in the heart of the wild and windswept Outer Hebrides is the island of North Uist, population about 1,200.
It’s the home of folk singer Julie Fowlis, bearer of a voice as clear and pure as the blue Atlantic waters that lap its shores.
Julie is Radio 2’s Folk Singer Of The Year and her spellbinding album Cuilidh got a rare 5/5 from SFTW.
Nestling in the heart of the wild and windswept Outer Hebrides is the island of North Uist, population about 1,200.
It’s the home of folk singer Julie Fowlis, bearer of a voice as clear and pure as the blue Atlantic waters that lap its shores.
Julie is Radio 2’s Folk Singer Of The Year and her spellbinding album Cuilidh got a rare 5/5 from SFTW.
Yet all but a tiny fraction of her listeners will actually understand what she’s singing about.
Her wonderfully expressive interpretations of traditional songs from her local surroundings are sung in her first language — Gaelic...
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