Fiona J. Mackenzie

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Gaelic singer Fiona J. MacKenzie has worked in the fields of Gaelic Arts and Culture for thirty years. She was previously Canna House Archivist, National Theatre of Scotland Gaelic Artist in Residence and Highland Council Gaelic Song Fellow.  She has won several prestigious awards including the prestigious BBC Traditional Music Personality of the Year Award (2004), the An Comunn Gaidhealach Mod Gold Medal (2005), the ‘Premier Ostano Prize’ for Indigenous Music Composition (2023)  and has  been nominated as Gaelic Singer of the  Year four times. In 2025 she was named as one of The List‘s Hot 100 Arts and Culture Contributors in Scotland.

Gaelic singer Fiona J. MacKenzie has worked in the fields of Gaelic Arts and Culture for thirty years. She was previously Canna House Archivist, National Theatre of Scotland Gaelic Artist in Residence and Highland Council Gaelic Song Fellow.  She has won several prestigious awards including the prestigious BBC Traditional Music Personality of the Year Award (2004), the An Comunn Gaidhealach Mod Gold Medal (2005), the ‘Premier Ostano Prize’ for Indigenous Music Composition (2023)  and has  been nominated as Gaelic Singer of the  Year four times. In 2025 she was named as one of The List‘s Hot 100 Arts and Culture Contributors in Scotland.

Books

  • Hardback | Pub: 02 Oct 2025
    £25.00

    Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize. The first biography of one of the twentieth century’s foremost champions of Hebridean culture.  The American-born folklorist and musician Margaret Fay Shaw’s passion for the Hebrides led her to...

  • Hardback | Pub: 25 Oct 2018
    £25.00

    Margaret Fay Shaw took her first photographs of the Hebrides in 1924 whilst travelling through the islands by bicycle. It was her photography which first brought her to the attention of folklorist John Lorne Campbell, and after their marriage in...