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Pixar’s movie ‘Brave’ singer at Delaware Tech

By Bryce Evans

 

Julie Fowlis, a famous Gaelic Scottish musician performed at Delaware Technical Community College Sunday, Oct. 20, to play music and answer any questions the spectators had about her culture or her career. 

 

Her musical performance was sponsored by the Joshua M. Freeman Foundation and The Freeman Stage at Bayside. The mission of the Joshua M. Freeman Foundation and The Freeman Stage at Bayside is to present memorable performances and provide inspired arts education for all, while creating opportunities to elevate the human spirit.  They provide audiences with a diverse offering of dance, theatre, live music and children’s performances.

 

Raised in North Uist, Scotland, Fowlis has been playing music since she was young and now has three albums out. She was also hired to play two songs for the Pixar movie “Brave” titled “Touch the Sky” and “Into the Open Air.”

 

Fowlis was backed up by a fiddle player who was also from Scotland, an acoustic guitar player and a bouzouki guitar player who were both from Ireland.

 

The large crowd that attended enjoyed 17 songs performed by Fowlis, of which two were instrumentals. Fowlis played flute in the first instrumental and bagpipes in the last.

 

“I’ve been singing since I was very young,” Fowlis said. “I started playing the bagpipes when I was about 7 and I picked up on the flute a few years ago.”

 

Some well-known songs she played were:  a cover of “Blackbird” by the Beatles, and her famous song “Touch the Sky.”

 

Janet Williams, 46, attended the performance and said, “It was great, very soft and pretty music.”