WATCH: Award-winning Grantown wordsmith's poem in tribute to new US president
Grantown's award-winning composer and folk musician Hamish Napier has written his own tribute to President Joe Biden following his inauguration.
The poem in honour of the 46th President of the United States has already attracted lots of attention on social media.
Napier told the Strathy: “I was inspired by the words of hope in Biden’s inaugural speech, as well as the amazing poetry of the 22-year-old Amanda Gorman - American's first ever national Youth Poet Laureate.
"She was amazing and so inspiring!
"Anyone who claims to be a fan of Donald Trump is probably not really going to enjoy this poem very much but I hope it strikes a chord with most people at home here in the strath.
"The video has already had thousands of views on social media in the last 24 hours.”
Napier has just uploaded a version with text to make the video more accessible to a wider range of people.
It can also be viewed on Facebook at ‘Hamish Napier Music’, on Instagram at hamishgrantnapier and on Twitter at @napierhamish .
Napier recently collected his latest major accolade after his superb collection The Woods took the top album prize at the Scots Trad Music Awards.
On the back of that he released a new digital EP on Bandcamp with several new bonus tracks called The Schawaldouris.
The Schawaldouris, pronounced ‘shaw-wall-dow-er-is’, is a very old Scots word meaning ‘wanderers in the woods’.
The EP has nine tracks and features collaborations with some of the Grantown folk star’s very favourite people.
There are two tracks with master Highland fiddle player Duncan Chisholm and Scottish Chamber Orchestra cellist Su-a Lee; a traditional story from brilliant Scottish storyteller David Francis, accompanied by a soundtrack made from a montage of half a dozen tracks from The Woods.
The EP is only available on Bandcamp.