For the first time ever, a concert has taken place on St Kilda – the deserted Scottish island dubbed ‘the Edge of the World’.
Internationally-renowned composer Sir James MacMillan put on an extraordinary piano performance, playing the ‘Lost Songs of St Kilda’ in front of a handful of people who endured an eight-hour boat trip from Skye to be there.
It is the first time music has been heard on St Kilda since its evacuation in 1930 and the first time a piano has ever been taken there – transported flatpacked in a storm-force vessel across the Atlantic Ocean.
St Kilda is located 41 miles west of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. It is uninhabited, with the last residents leaving in 1930.
It has global importance for a great range of species of birds including a population of 119,000 Northern Gannets.
VIDEO: Composer gives first ever concert at ‘the Edge of the World’