And amid the frenzy of promotional and publicity work surrounding the film she attended the world premiere in Los Angeles on 18 June and is due to perform at the European premiere on the closing night of the Edinburgh Film Festival on 30 June, ahead of the film’s Scottish release on 3 August. That was in April and just six weeks later Julie, who also has another daughter two-year-old Aoibhe, was back on stage singing.

“It worked out very well in the end and just got finished in time – thankfully she was late so that helped as well”.

“The songs were physically demanding and it was a real worry that every day I came into the studio would be the day that I would have to stop working. I found singing at that late stage slightly more difficult with my first child. “I was lucky that whatever position she was in she wasn’t interfering with the lungs and allowed me to be able to sing. “I was glad the wee one stayed where she was to let me get it all done”, said Julie. The Gaelic singing star was eight-and-a-half months pregnant with her second child Niamh while she was recording the two songs she performs on the film’s soundtrack and another for the movie trailer.

Julie Fowlis spent much of her time working on the blockbuster animated fantasy film Brave worrying about another pending production. Disney calls twice for Gaelic songstress.Singing star Julie’s delivery was spot on.

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