Julie Fowlis
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Nobody has taken Scots Gaelic music and song further than Julie Fowlis, from the Outer Hebridean island of North Uist off the north west coast of Scotland. Also a radio presenter, her gentle delivery and charming presentation has made the island's evocative ancient traditional music and song palatable to a wider world and she even reached the fringes of the UK charts with her Gaelic language version of The Beatles' "Blackbird;" originally recorded for a Mojo magazine re-make of The Beatles White album. Raised among the traditional music community of North Uist, she is also an accomplished bagpipe and whistle player, first achieving wider attention in the traditional group Dochas. She went on to release her first solo album Mar A Tha Mo Chridhe (As My Heart Is) in 2005 and won surprise success in the rest of Britain and Europe in 2007 with her second album Cuilidh - comprised entirely of material from North Uist. She has continued to concentrate almost exclusively on Gaelic language material with the albums Uam (2009) and Live At Perthshire Amber (2011) touring regularly in a band that includes her husband Eamon Doorley (of Danu). She also recorded a duet album with Irish singer Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh and her profile was raised again in 2012 when her music was featured in the movie Brave. In 2012 she co-presented the BBC Folk Awards with Mike Harding, while continuing to front radio shows for Radio Alba and Radio Scotland. Her discography has continued to grow with albums such as Gach sgeul - Every story (2014), Alterum (2017), Allt Vol. II: Cuimhne (2024), and Looking for the Thread (2025).
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- Rebecca featuring Karine Polwart
- Looking For The Thread featuring Karine Polwart
- Grà dh Geal Mo Chridhe featuring Karine Polwart
- A Heart That Never Closes featuring Karine Polwart
- Dhèirich Mi Moch Madainn Cheòthar
- Selkie-boy
- Buidheann Mo Chridhe Clann Ualrig featuring Karine Polwart
- The Lost Words Blessing featuring Karine Polwart
- Send Love featuring Karine Polwart
- You Know Where You Are featuring Karine Polwart
- A Heart That Never Closes featuring Karine Polwart
- Silver In The Blue featuring Karine Polwart
- Touch The Sky
- Love Is... by Julie Fowlis
- Satellite featuring Mary Chapin Carpenter
- A la luz del sol featuring Jim Sutherland
- Volaré featuring Jim Sutherland
- Tha Caolas Eadar Mi's Iain
- Bird of the Blizzard by Julie Fowlis
- Hold Everything featuring Karine Polwart
- Mo Ghruagach Dhonn
- Beauty Deas an Oileain featuring Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh
- The Snow Hare by Julie Fowlis
- Papa Kéba by Julie Fowlis
