Biography

Born in Gedintailor and lived in Braes, Skye, where he was a crofter, community councillor and poet.

Calum started composing songs at the age of fourteen and his first attempts were in English. Not being satisfied with them, he turned to his first language and completed his first Gaelic song around the age of nineteen. The subjects of his songs are wide-ranging, from a humorous song about a missing cockerel to a lament for his brother Archie, who was killed while serving in World War I.

Calum didn't compose melodies for his songs but instead would develop the melodies of old songs he had leant from the oral tradition.

List of compositions

Òran don Chuilthionn