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Kitty Ann ceilidh sets Skerray Hall rocking


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Skerray Hall rocked with music and dance last Friday at a community ceilidh to celebrate the life of the late Kitty Ann MacQueen, who died aged 100 in February and was the last survivng native of the now uninhabited Eilean nan Ron.

Compere Willie Mackay introduced a host of singers, dancers, musicians and storytellers, all of whom were greeted enthusiastically by a packed audience.

The evening was filmed by BBC Alba with a report aired on Gaelic news programme An La on Monday evening.

Fiddle player Karen Steven, great-niece of Kitty Ann, organised the ceilidh along with a group of volunteers.

She said: “It was a really fun and relaxed evening and people re requesting that it be an annual event.”

£1480 was raised for the hall and Save the Children


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