Solas - Margaret Fay Shaw of Canna

BBC Alba HD

10:00 PM to 10:30 PM

Wednesday 13 November

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Margaret Fay Shaw was born in 1903 near Pittsburgh. A talented piano player, she loved music from a young age. Arriving in South Uist in 1929 to collect Gaelic songs, she fell in love with the island, and spent the remainder of her days collecting songs and stories, whilst taking photographs and filming a way of living which was ceasing to exist. She married John Lorne Campbell in 1935, and two years later, they purchased Canna. Margaret stayed in Canna House until her death at the age of 101 in 2004. Canna House archivist Fiona J Mackenzie gives an insight into Shaw's life, referencing her own photographs, films and audio recordings