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The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

Hello and thanks very much for downloading this.

I'm Mark Stephen. For this edition of the Midweek

podcast we're going to take you back to 2017 to a recording I made when I travel to the Highlands

to meet a guy with a really strange mixture of talents.

I am not going to pretend to be an expert in hip-hop. I know it's a music form and that originated in New York, but to be frank, that's me kind of tapped out.

Crofting I know a wee bit more about. It was once a very common way of life, right the way across Scotland, not just in the West Coast. And it involved either making a living off the land or making a

partial living off the land. But tying those two things together, hip-hop and crofting, might seem

like strange bedfellows, but for Gregor Lowry, they are inextricably linked. And for the next 30 minutes,

we're going to be hearing how Gregor goes about juggling a life as a touring musician,

writer, crofter and scholar from his croft in Bala Hulish, all the while trying to keep alive

the language and the culture he grew up in.

Growned it, my roots like a tree, I sit still upon the rocks and move this energy in me

because I'm found it in this land. I take my stand with my brothers and sisters hand in the command of a language that's older than history from hour but to Egypt and lock the ancient history with solid foundations and did I project that I connect and interject for the architect. So here we are at the Sheldn Valley in Balachay-Huishat, North Balakulish.

This is kind of the end of the road really. This was where the Sheren Valley, the old town road,

met up here and ended just at the ruins of the old houses just around the corner there

and there were several families who lived here at one time.

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