Ewan McVicar

Pauline Cordiner

Pauline Cordiner - A Scottish Storyteller

Ewan McVicar - Writer, Songmaker, Publisher

Pauline is a storyteller from the fishing and farming traditions of the North East of Scotland and enjoys telling a variety of traditional Scottish tales, fairy tales, folk tales creation myths and the occasional home-grown tale of her own. Since 2001 she has been involved in many storytelling events and projects which have allowed her to build on her enthusiasm for science, history and the environment. Pauline can also bring traditional Scots songs and bothy ballads into her performance and can use these as well as puppets and costumes to bring further audience participation into the storytelling performance. Pauline loves to tell stories for schools, care homes, special needs groups, festivals, castles, out in the open – just anywhere there is an audience for the stories she loves!

Ewan was born in Inverness, has lived in East Africa, Yemen and the USA, and is now retired from performing and settled in Cromarty. He has told stories and sung songs in schools, libraries and castles right across Scotland, England, Russia including Siberia, Canada, Uganda and The Netherlands.
He has written songs that are sung and recorded by others, including 20 made for the Singing Kettle show and one that spent weeks in the 1960 Top Twenty.
As Writer In Residence in Craigmillar, Edinburgh, he ran creative writing projects with all the schools and published a dozen pamphlets. His GALLUS publishing and recording label has published many books and CDs. For Aberdeenshire Youth Music Initiative he has with singer Christine Kydd made song making websites with a dozen Aberdeenshire schools, and many more in schools from Orkney to Campbeltown.

email: paulinecordiner@gmail.com

Links to Ewan and Pauline's web pages and social media

Pauline's web page

Pauline's social media

email: ewanandlinda@btinternet.com