Fiona was brought up in the Fochabers area and attended Milnes High School in the town. Well known in the area for her Scots singing, she now lives in the Highlands and is the first professional Gaelic singer and teacher to come from Fochabers.
She won the prestigious Mod Gold Medal in 2005 and has been nominated twice for the Gaelic Singer of the Year at the Scots Trad Awards. She released the ground breaking Gaelic Christmas album ‘Duan Nollaig’ on the Greentrax label in 2007 and has just released ‘A Good Suit of Clothes’, a unique album of Emigrant Songs, also on Greentrax. Fiona is accompanied on clàrsach by her daughter Katie, who is a recent graduate from the RSAMD in Glasgow and is herself gaining a reputation as one of Scotland’s up and coming Gaelic singers.