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Ewan is a writer, songmaker, singer, storyteller and organiser. He has has written a forgotten Top Twenty hit, twenty songs for the Singing Kettle show, and several books including in 1990 One Singer One Song about Glasgow songs and singers, in 2007 Doh Ray Me When Ah Wis Wee, the standard work on Scots children’s songs and rhymes, and various books and booklets for and with children. He has co-written books about Traditional Scottish Song & Music and about Strathclyde Social Work Department’s involvement in 19090 Glasgow City of Culture.
His latest book, not yet published, is to be called The Eskimo Republic, Scots political song in action . Through many interviews and much research Ewan shares the excitement and energy, and the historical antecedants, of the Lifting of the Stane, The Bo’ness Rebels, the anti-Polaris Glasgow Eskimos, the Scottish Breakaway songs and much more.
Gallus Publishing is Linlithgow-based Ewan McVicar’s newest venture, growing out of his recording label Gallus which has for several years issued and supplied direct short-run CDs of Scottish songmaking and story. These include Scottish Songs For Younger Children, Traditional Scottish Stories For Younger Children, Exploits Of Tortoise And Hare – Traditional African Stories, and Tales On The Tongue – 11 Tales From 8 Scottish Storytellers.
Ewan has also edited several CDs of traditional Scottish music, for Greentrax and for US Rounder Records.
Ewan has recently created for Learning Teaching Scotland the new web-site content for schools about Scotland’s songs and music, and with author Stuart McHardy has created LTS web site material about the Caledonians, Picts and Scots. Stuart and Ewan have also developed SCOTSFEST workshops in which a storyteller, singer and other artists visit a school for a day and end the visit in a celebratory ceilidh. In his spare time Ewan also co-runs several small scale development projects in Uganda, where he learned African stories and songs. |
Albums:
| Hundreds of hilarious, energetic, surreal, nonsensical and alarming rhymes and songs are still in use, some over 200 years old.. | | €17.99 |  |
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| Some 60 old and new songs of Glasgow as well as the stories behind them and the singers and songwriters.
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| Surprising, funny and sad traditional stories about cats, frogs, foxes, wolves, seals, robins, pigs and more retold by one of Scotland’s best-known storytellers. | | €7.19 | |
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| Ewan McVicar's latest book investigates the historical roots of Scots political song, and considers the role of key activists and songmakers, and how new and old Scottish songs fuelled and reported on political actions and campaigns | | €16.79 | |
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