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From the album Chasing The Light. http://www.transition-records.com/
Once a year, ten chosen men make a trecherous journey out to the remote island of Sula Sgier to take part in a unique and ancient ritual -- the harvesting of Gannet chicks, or 'gugas' -- and return to the small community of Ness on the Butt of Lewis, where they are a celebrated delicacy. This controversial tradition is still allowed to continue today under a special license from Scottish Heritage Trust. In 1991 a Derbyshire photographer was the first ever 'outsider' to accompany the ten Lewis men on the hunt. Now his son returns to the island with a song honouring the centuries-old tradition he witnessed as a five-year-old boy.

Two decades after accompanying his father on that gruelling photography expedition to Lewis, Derbyshire musician Robin Beatty has written a song in tribute to the ancient Hebridean tradition he was privy to. This May, Robin along with The Old Dance School with whom he performs will showcase the song in a series of concerts across Scotland. Robin says he is "excited, and even a little nervous" to be returning to the island that informed his love of Celtic music. The band's elegant contemporary folk sound draws strongly from this early inspiration.(Folk Radio UK)