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Anna has been described as one of Scotland's finest pipers and Gaelic singers. Anna's is taking Tweed and adding the same passion. Her album 'Into Indigo' was reviewed by Rob Adams in the Glasgow Herald: 'A blow by blow account, Anna Murray isn't afraid to take piping and Gaelic song into all sorts of new situations ... Murray takes piping and Gaelic song into all sorts of steamy situations, including Dolina Mackay, a guitar-riffing, Hammond-spluttering, Hebridean Booker T and the MGs blast that is sure to give some of her competition judges kittens.' Weaving is in her family, her father, Domhnall Ph òshan, was a weaver and his father before.him. So when Anna was asked by Ian Sutherland, who owned Breanish Tweed producing Tweed for Royalty, if she would like to be his apprentice she leapt at the opportunity. Anna still lives in the village where over six generations of her family have lived (this is how many Grannie can remember off the top of her head). She uses these roots and her connection to the landscape to inspire her designer Tweeds. This relationship with Gaelic music can be seen playing out in the cloth. For Anna the feel of the cloth is a huge part of the magic of Lewis Tweed. She says 'for so, long people have referred to tweed as the itchy scratch material. I want to change that with my new soft, finelywoven tweeds in vibrant colours.' |
