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Remembering Oban’s Gaelic global singing superstar

MacLachlan started singing when she was eight.

She went on to sing for Princess Louise, the Duchess of Argyll and sixth child of Queen Victoria, at the Mòd in 1892.

The performance led to her singing to Queen Victoria at Balmoral and she toured Canada, US, New Zealand and Australia.

MacLachlan, nicknamed Songbird of the Gaels, sang the first Gaelic songs to be recorded on gramophone in 1899 in Glasgow.

She was 49 when she died after taking ill during a journey home from France through Spain at the outbreak of World War One.

MacLachlan was buried at Glasgow’s Cathcart Cemetery.


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