Isle of Skye Music Festival at the previous festival. The shortfall was due to much lower than expected crowds at the previous event, after spending large amounts of money on bands. A new two-day festival called "Skye Live" succeeded in Easter 2015 in Portree in the Isle of Skye. The festival took place on 25 and 26 May 2007. Isle of Skye Music Festival The Isle of Skye Music Festival was an annual music festival that took place on the Ashaig Airstrip near Broadford on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. It was one of the earliest festivals in the year, occurring in late May
The Skye Boat Song "Songs of the North" by Boulton and MacLeod, London, 1884, a book that went into at least fourteen editions. In later editions MacLeod's name was dropped and the ascription "Old Highland rowing measure arranged by Malcolm Lawson" was substituted. It was quickly taken up by other compilers, such as Laura Alexandrine Smith's "Music of the Waters" (published 1888). Lawson was the elder brother of artist Cecil Gordon Lawson. According to Andrew Kuntz, a collector of folk music lore, MacLeod was on a trip to the isle of Skye and was being rowed over Loch Coruisk (', the "Cauldron of Waters")