In this episode I’ll be talking with my friend Jane Hepburn Macmillan. Jane is a fiddle player and composer, and she lives in Stornoway in the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
Jane has been a professional musician full-time since leaving school, and for over 10 years she has been playing locally, nationally, and internationally for various local bands such as Face the West, Portrona and The Tumbling Souls – and as she says herself in this episode – for any band that needs a Fiddle player. She has also been involved in national and international collaborative projects; for example The Between Islands Project and Yatra; Journey. The theme music for this podcast is one of Jane’s compositions. I was drawn to ‘Creative Places’ because of how well it evokes the creative process, and we talk a little more about how that process in this episode.
In this episode we look more closely at how being a rurally based islander has not only not held her back from an international career, but it has also been an asset. For Jane, being rural, fuels creative inspiration, from both the landscape the culture and its people, and a community of people that collaborate and support eachother.
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