No lang syne, Grace Stewart-Skinner an her baund pit oot a caw for fowk tae come forrit an gie a bittie siller til a guid project that will forder an uphaud Scots spoken in the Heilands. Grace is ettlin tae record an album o oreeginal music tae gae alang wi recordings o the Scots spoken in an aboot the fisher toun o Avoch, on the Black isle, kent as Avochie (Auchie) bi its speakers. Lang spoken bi the fisher fowk thareawa, thir days the kenspeckle dialect is dwynin an no as weel kent ony mair, but Grace wad like tae mark it, an gie it a heize. The album, cryed Auchies Spikkin Auchie, will hae recordings o hamelt speakers intil’t, but the price o makkin a studio album is £15,254. If ony body wad like tae gie taewards the funding project please clap yer device here https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/auchies-spikkin-auchie---debut-album#start for tae get mair wittins, an tak a swatch o the video whaur a body will can hear brawly spoken Auchie.

Photie: Grace Stewart-Skinner at Crowdfunder.co.uk

The’r a soond file o this story in Scots abuin.