Ewan McVicar

Ewan McVicar was born in Inverness in 1941. As a teenager he helped start the first folk club in Glasgow, and wrote a song called ‘Talking Army Blues’ that spent 8 weeks in the Top Twenty. He has since written many songs that have been recorded, including ‘Shift and Spin’ and ‘All The Tunes In The World’, and 20 songs for the Singing Kettle show. His books about aspects of Scottish song and music include ‘One Singer One Song’ about Glasgow songs, ‘Traditional Scottish Song & Music’ for schools, and in 2007 ‘Doh Ray Me When Ah Wis Wee’, which is already the standard reference work about Scottish children’s songs and rhymes.
Ewan was founder chairman of Linlithgow’s Sangschule song group, and has guest tutored for various other song groups and community choirs. He has performed solo and run song and storytelling workshops all around Scotland, and done much broadcasting. He has taught songs, written new songs, and told stories in over 200 schools in Scotland, the USA, Canada, the Netherlands and Russia.

No teaching at the moment.