Summary
JOAN MacLeod, an Edinburgh housewife, a much-loved wife, mum and grandmother, died quietly on Sunday afternoon in her 78th year.
To Gaeldom, however, she will always be Joan MacKenzie, the finest Gaelic singer of her generation and arguably the best since the Second World War.See the full content of this document
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The Sound of Voices in the Wilderness
She was still a young and very attractive woman when, in 1955, she won the Mod Gold Medal and was photographed with Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother.
Joan's final years were clouded by affliction and difficulty, but the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh shrewdly deployed her at...See the full content of this document
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