Isla St Clair
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Biography
Isabella Margaret Dyce, known professionally as Isla St Clair, born on May 2, 1952, in Grangemouth, Scotland, is a Scottish singer and television personality. She began her singing career at a young age, performing with the local Salvation Army and at her mother's Brownie concerts. In 1971, she released her debut album Isla St Clair Sings Traditional Scottish Songs, which earned her the Female Folk Singer of the Year award from the New Musical Express. Throughout the 1970s, St Clair appeared on various television and radio shows, including Hoot'nanny and My Kind of Folk. She released several albums, such as Isla in 1979, and starred in the 1981 television series The Song and The Story, which won the Prix Jeunesse for Best Light Entertainment and spawned an accompanying album of the same name in 1981. In 2007, she sang "Flowers of the Forest" at Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele.
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- The Flowers Of The Forest
- Time to Be Sleeping
- Jacobite Medley: Highland Harry/White Cockade/The Bonnets of Bo
- Lochaber No More
- Forfar Sodger
- A Hundred Pipers
- Heilan' Sodger
- A Gordon for Me
- Ticonderoga
- Gallant Forty Twa
- Mouth Music
- Highland Division's Farewell to Sicily
- Battle of Waterloo
- Lullin The LIttlin'
- A Toast To Stornoway
- Muir of Culloden
- The Lifeboat
- Spinning Wheel
- Couthy Cullen
- 52nds Across the Lowlands
- Ballachulish
- Scotland the Brave/Heilan' Laddie/Black Bear
- Lament For The Commandos / Dunkirk
- Lament For The Commandos
