Scotland Magazine

THE STORY BEHIND…

My new album Kōterana (the Māori word for Scotland) is based on the remarkable true story of 800 Scottish Highlanders who followed Scottish clergyman Reverend Norman McLeod on a life-changing journey of no return in the 19th century.

At a time when many were forced to flee the Highlands due to ongoing land clearances, the congregation left their homes, families, and everything they knew to follow their faith, and go in

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