Kenna has been in at the beginning of many of the Gaelic language and culture’s significant developments in 20th Century Scotland. She taught at the first-ever Fèis in Barra in 1981, was an early trustee of Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the Gaelic College in Skye, and is a board member of PNA and An Lòchran, Glasgow’s Gaelic arts agency.
One of her proudest moments, however, was as part of the campaign to establish the first-ever Gaelic-medium primary education provision in Glasgow in 1985, at Sir John Maxwell Primary School. The campaign continues today with the recent opening of the Gaelic School in Glasgow.
In 1996, Kenna was invited onto the staff of the Royal Academy of Music and Drama’s Scottish Music course. Her formidable knowledge and motivational powers have helped to nurture exciting young Gaelic singing talents including Rachel Walker and James Graham, the Young Scottish Traditional Musician of the Year 2004.
Kenna, who has sung as far afield as Cape Breton and North Carolina, is never happier than when singing. She loves learning new songs and sharing old ones, and she was thrilled to tour the Highlands for the 2006 Blas festival with Mary Ann, Wilma and Kenna’s niece, Maggie Macdonald, as part of Clan, a fitting family-based vehicle for her rich legacy of song.
Kenna Campbell was inducted in to the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame in 2006.
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Kenna is also a member of of the group Bannal | 
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