Margaret Bennett has sung at folk festivals and concerts world-wide and, as one of the world's foremost authorities on Scottish Folklore, she features in several films, TV documentaries and on radio. Margaret has an MA in Folklore and a PhD in Ethnology and currently holds an honorary Research Fellowship at the University of Glasgow School of Scottish and Celtic Studies. A prize-winning author, she has published several books and articles. There can be few scholars on either side of the Atlantic who succeed in combining such a wide range of skills as Margaret Bennett.

Margaret Bennett grew up in Skye and Lewis but in1968, she emigrated to Newfoundland which she describes as a paradise for folk musicians. As a post-graduate student of Folklore at Memorial University of Newfoundland she began recording the traditions of the Gaels who immigrated there from the Isle of Canna and Moidart. Margaret studied with Prof. Herbert Halpert whose rigorous training in folklore studies she credits with influencing every project thereafter.

"She is a folksinger of great sensitivity and versatility, and is undoubtedly one of the major figures of the modern Scottish Revival. There can be few scholars on either side of the Atlantic who succeed in combining such a wide range of skills as Margaret Bennett. Margaret embodies all that is best of the spirit of Scotland." Hamish Henderson

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