Folk Bands and Artists
Mary Ann Kennedy
Glasgow
http://www.maryannkennedy.co.uk
Mary Ann was born in Glasgow into a Gaelic-speaking family. Her mother, Kenna Campbell, belongs to a renowned family of tradition-bearers, the Campbells of Greepe from the Isle of Skye. In 2017, Mary Ann won the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Award for Community Project of the Year with the Tiree Songbook - a performance and album project honouring her father Alasdair’s home Hebridean island of Tiree and its own rich music traditions. Mary Ann was also nominated for Album of the Year for ‘An Dàn’ (ARC Music); Gaelic Singer of The Year; and Trad Music in the Media for ‘Seirm’ - the BBC TV series which Mary Ann presents annually from Celtic Connections.
Scottish Gaelic is spoken by close to 60,000 people in Scotland, mainly in the north-west Highlands and Islands and in the country’s urban Central Belt, and with a small but significant diaspora in East Coast Canada. Mary Ann is actively involved in many official and informal roles in promoting the language and its place in 21st century Scotland and beyond.
Genre: Celtic Folk
