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Mary Ann Kennedy (Mairi Anna Nic Ualraig),〔(BBC Alba: Highlights from the Royal National Mod )〕 born 1968, is a Scottish musician, singer, composer, radio and television presenter, and music producer. ==Biography== Mary Ann Kennedy was born and brought up in Glasgow in a Gaelic-speaking household. Her father was from the Isle of Tiree, and her mother, Kenna Campbell, one of the Campbell family of Greepe in the Isle of Skye, a family of singers and pipers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mary Ann Kennedy )〕 She trained as a classical musician from the age of six, starting out on piano and later taking up the harp.〔 She went on to study as a pianist at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, and undertook postgraduate research and training at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where she was the first harpist in the college's history to be awarded its highest performance diploma. Her thesis was a study of Gaelic ''puirt a beul'', or "mouth music", a speciality of her mother's family. From 1993 she lived and worked in Inverness as a news presenter and musician.〔 Mary Ann Kennedy has received several awards, including a Saltire Society Award for her Highland Festival commission, ''Lasair Dhè'', and "Radio Presenter of the Year 2007" from the Celtic Media Festival. She has produced records by, among others, James Graham, Donnie Murdo MacLeod, Ceolraidh Gaidhlig Ghlaschu, Ailie Robertson, Catriona Watt, Atomic Piseag, Shona Mooney, Bannal, Cliar, and Jenna Cumming. Mary Ann presents radio shows including ''Mary Ann Kennedy's Global Gathering'' on BBC Radio Scotland, 'World on 3' on BBC Radio 3, and BBC Radio nan Gaidheal, and television programmes on BBC Scotland/BBC Alba and BBC Four. She runs the residential recording and creative facility, Watercolour Music Studios, with her husband Nick Turner from their base near Fort William in the West Highlands. In August 2015, Kennedy was convicted at Fort William Sheriff Court for driving without insurance and driving while intoxicated (she was almost 7 times over the legal limit). Procurator fiscal Michelle Molley added that in 2005 Kennedy admitted a similar offence on the A82 Inverness-Glasgow road in Glencoe when she was more than four times the then-higher limit of 35mcg.〔https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highlands/696587/musical-star-caught-driving-on-highland-road-while-nearly-seven-times-the-drink-drive-limit/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary Ann Kennedy (Scottish singer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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