Màiri Mhòr nan òran

I was brought up with the music of Màiri Mhòr nan Òran and am also interested in land reform, having originally come from Assynt.
My late aunt Marlene MacKenzie won the silver medal at the MOD for her rendition of Eilean a Cheò. Her and my mother Joan also used to sing Soraidh le Eilean a Cheò.
There is a line in Soraidh le Eilean a Cheò describing the sunrise on the Storr. In Assynt we have a sea stack that is called the Old Man of Stoer, rather than the Old Man of Storr, but that always felt like a connection between Skye and Assynt.

Soraidh leis an ait’ an d’fhuair mi m’àrach òg
Eilean nam beann àrda far an tàmh an ceò
Air a moch a dh’èireas grian nan speur fo ròs
A’ fuadach a neul na h-oidhche Soillseachadh an Stòrr

‘Farewell to the place where I spent my youth
Island of the high mountains where the mist rests
On which rises early the rose coloured sun in the sky
Chasing away the clouds of night Illuminating the Storr

Màiri is singing in the Skye landscape with the Old Man of Storr in the background.
As she was accused of stealing her dead employer’s shawl and sent to prison for 40 days, then later designed the Blackie tartan, I wanted to feature a shawl, as that depicted her transformation into a composer and bard….an image of her defiantly holding out a Blackie tartan shawl, whilst singing.