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Taynuilt Gaelic Choir is set to celebrate 20th anniversary

WHILE their energy and youthful enthusiasm might point to a choir in the first flush of youth, Taynuilt Gaelic Choir will be celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.

Taynuilt Gaelic Choir at its outing in Inverness in 2014.

It was late 1996 when Margaret McLellan, formerly of Harris but then resident in Taynuilt, asked around for like-minded souls to join her in some singing, some Gaelic and perhaps some competing. The rest is history.

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