Malin Lewis on Eilean Shona
Folk on Foot
Matthew Bannister
4.8 • 526 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
The trans pipe and fiddle player Malin Lewis grew up on a magical island off the West coast of Scotland. There were no roads or cars and their family were the only permanent residents. Home schooled till the age of seven, Malin had an idyllic childhood roaming the forests, building dens and splashing in the shallows on the white sand beaches. In this episode this rising star of the Scottish folk scene - with a hotly anticipated debut album about to be released - makes an emotional return to the island to play on the shore and stage a homecoming concert in the abandoned village hall.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, before you dive into this lovely episode with Malin Lewis on Aileen Shona, |
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| 0:35.1 | And when you're buying, you'll have the added satisfaction of knowing that all profits go back |
| 0:39.4 | into making more episodes of Folk on Foot. |
| 0:42.4 | That's folkonfoot.com slash shop. |
| 0:46.2 | Happy shopping. |
| 0:51.7 | It's about 9 o'clock on a Sunday morning in October and I am looking at the most spectacular |
| 0:58.5 | view. We're on the Ardenamerican Peninsula on the west coast of Scotland and the waves are lapping |
| 1:05.9 | up against the shore here and we're about to get on a boat with Malin Lewis, the piper and fiddle |
| 1:14.0 | player who's here with us and this is a very personal place for you isn't it? |
| 1:18.0 | Yeah, this is the island that I grew up on. |
| 1:20.7 | Alien Shona, we're looking at it now just across the water. It's about a 10 minute boat ride, |
| 1:25.4 | isn't it? Yeah, well excited. I've spent many a holiday here and we're going to explore a kind of nostalgic |
| 1:31.6 | homeward journey on the other side of the water. And I have to say the view is wonderful |
| 1:37.3 | because in the foreground there's a ruined castle as if it had been placed there by a postcard |
| 1:42.6 | salesman. It's just exactly what you expect to see here in the Highlands. |
| 1:47.1 | So let's get on the boat and get over there. |
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