Biography
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Born
30 December 1969 (age 54)
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Born In
Eilean Siar, Scotland, United Kingdom
Kathleen MacInnes, or Caitlin Nic Aonghais in Scottish Gaelic, (born 30 December 1969) is a Scottish singer, television presenter and actress who performs primarily in Scottish Gaelic.
MacInnes was born and brought up on South Uist, Western Isles, in a Gaelic speaking home, and has enjoyed an interesting career in television, as an actress, presenter and singer. Her various projects on television include being presenter of 'Tacsi', a Scottish Bafta award-winning television show of Gaelic and Celtic arts and culture; a part in the Gaelic 'soap' 'Machair'; parts on BBC TV's comedy shows such as 'Ran Dan' and 'PC Alasdair Stewart'; the film 'Interrogation of a Highland Lassie', in which she performed two songs; children's TV programmes; plus regular voice-overs for BBC cartoons and the series 'Animations From Around The World' for Mor Media. Her stage work includes a part in 'The Well' from the producers of 'Riverdance', a theatre production for Dublin Theatre, plus a handful of plays for Tosg and performances at various music festivals.
MacInnes has been a regular guest on music programmes such as MacTV's 'Bard nan Orain', BBC's award-winning series 'Aig Cridhe ar Ciuil' and Mike Alexander's 'Columba Sessions' where she sang alongside leading Scottish and Irish singers and musicians. Kathleen also took part in the concert 'Flower of The West', a tribute to Runrig brothers Calum and Ruaraidh MacDonald and enjoyed performing with Blas, as the support singer to Van Morrison. She developing a show with Cathy-Ann MacPhee - 'There's No V in Gaelic'.
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