Eilidh Shaw is a Scottish

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player and singer. She has performed with

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and recorded a solo album, ''Heepirumbo'', in 1997. Her brother Donald Shaw was a founding member of

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. She and The Poozies performed at 2008's Fèis an Eilein in the Isle of Skye. She joined

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in 2018 to replace fiddler Angus R. Grant, who died in 2016.

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