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Ewan was born in Inverness in 1941. He was one of the Broomhill Bums along with Hamish Imlach and Ray and Archie Fisher, he co-founded the Glasgow Folk Club in 1959 with Drew Moyes, and he wrote the 1960 Top Twenty hit Talking Army Blues for Josh Macrae. In the 60s Ewan worked in Africa and South Yemen, then taught guitar and sang in Cambridge, Mass. He returned to Scotland in 1968. Ewan has written 20 songs for the Singing Kettle, and two songs widely sung - Shift and Spin and All The Tunes In The World. He has written or co-written five books on aspects of Scottish traditional music, the latest being Doh Ray Me, When Ah Wis Wee, Scots Children's Songs and Rhymes. Ewan plays guitar, autoharp, bouzouki and mouthbow, and has performed in 12 countries. He ran a Festival of Scottish Culture in the Russian Urals city of Perm, and co-runs the Music Exchange project linking Scotland and Uganda. He is treasurer of New Makars Trust. He is also one of Scotland's best known storytellers, and vice-chair of the Scottish Storytelling Forum. |
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