Fiona Mackenzie is one of the foremost Gaelic singers in the Highlands of Scotland today. She most recently won the prestigious Gold Medal at the Royal National Mod in Stornoway in October 2005.

Fiona Mackenzie, a native of Fochabers in Moray who learnt Gaelic as an  adult, has embraced the culture wholeheartedly.  She won the prestigious An Comunn Gaidhealach Gold Medal  at the Royal National Mod in Stornoway in 2005.  She has been the Mairi Mhor Gaelic Song Fellow  for Highland Council since March 2002.  Fiona also won the first BBC Radio Scotland Scottish Traditional Music Personality of the Year in 2004.  She has sung and taught throughout Scotland  and the UK as well as Canada, the USA, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, France and Estonia. Fiona has just been nominated for Gaelic Singer of the Year 2006 inthe Scots trad Music Aeards.You can vote for her and many other great musicians and singers - and thereby help to raise the profile of Scots Trad music by clicking on this link to vote online -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/musicscotland/celticroots/trad_awards/index.shtml