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Lectures
Guest talks
After dinner speeches
Musical entertainment, storytelling

Dr. Margaret Bennett is available by arrangement for guest lectures, talks or workshops with literary groups, writers' workshops, historical/cultural societies, universities, colleges, schools (all ages).

• Conferences pertaining to folklore, culture and tradition

• After-dinner speaker

• Special events, such as St Andrew’s Day, St. Valentines, Robert Burns Day,

Topics include

• Traditional songs (e.g. "Work songs" /"Humour in Gaelic Song" etc.)

•  Emigration history, the Potato Famine in the Highlands

• Traditional Medical lore and Old Wives Tales

• The Folklore and Songs of Plants and Flowers

• Celtic Spirituality

• The Celtic Calendar and related customs and songs

• Celtic Customs

• Children’s folklore

• Robert Burns (Immortal Memory, songs)

• Sir Walter Scott—his life and ballad collecting

See also topics covered in her publications ,Books, and  Scottish Folklore.

Biography in Writer's Directory

Originally from Skye, influenced by Gaelic traditions (from mother) and Scots (from father). Folklorist, singer, writer, lecturer, broadcaster. Part-time lecturer in Folklore at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama & Honorary Research Fellow, University of Glasgow School of Scottish Studies. Winner of the Michaelis-Jena Ratcliff Folklore Prize (l991); Fergusson Essay Prize (Cape Breton, 1995); the Scotch Malt Whisky Society award (1994) The Master Music-Maker Award (1998, North Carolina, for teaching traditional music, song, culture), Canadian Historical Association Clio Award for Quebec, 1999

Judge of Stakis Prize, 1998

Research and presentation of radio and television programmes. Several overseas tours as lecturer, writer and singer.

BurnSong Panel, 2005, 2006 & 2007

Project promoting, encouraging, and nurturing songwriting in Scotland.