Donald MacRae, a Scottish folk singer who sang primarily in Gaelic, died on April 29, 2026, aged 84.
Born in Stornoway on August 26, 1941, he grew up on crofts in South Lochs on the Isle of Lewis and later in Carishader. He moved to Glasgow in 1961, worked on buses briefly, and then spent 19 years at the Singer Company sewing machine factory in Clydebank until its closure in 1980.
During that period, he began singing native Lewis songs at venues in Glasgow and the Outer Hebrides. He later worked at Barr and Stroud in optical engineering until 1991.
Donald MacRae, 84, Scottish folk singer.