Of the two, I think I prefer a concert audience to a congregation. People listen to me more attentively in a concert than in a church. However it was quite clear his performances were to fund and secondary to his religious duties, where after ordination he decreed all concert earnings went to charities. MacEwan also rejected the title of a 'singing priest'. After Lochgilphead, he moved to St Andrew's Church in Rothesay. A stained glass window in the church in Lochgilphead is dedicated to the MacEwan family. His parishioners became accustomed to his concert tours, and enjoyed his return each time. Singing career While at university, his vocal talents were noticed and he began a singing career on the advice of Sir Compton Mackenzie and Irish tenor John McCormack. At this time he came to the attention of the Scottish region of the British Broadcasting Company, and became heavily involved in many broadcasts, specifically the Children's Hour programme. He began recording for Parlophone in 1934 while still attending the Royal Academy of Music in London and being tutored by Plunket Greene. He toured in 1936, playing to audiences in Canada, the United States of America, New Zealand, and Australia, and the tour was repeated in 1938. Still performing as a priest, MacEwan nonetheless continued to record and tour. Further trips to North America and Australia took place until as late as 1956. At one time he indicated a liking for the style of American crooner Bing Crosby. Australian tours MacEwan's 1936 tour of Australia went as far north as Townsville. Commencing the 1948 tour in April, MacEwan attended Saint Mary's Cathedral in Sydney. Before Cardinal Francis Spellman, Archbishop of New York, he celebrated a mass for peace, singing the liturgy there. Arriving in Australia by flying boat, he took the mail train firstly to Melbourne as part of the Centenary of the Catholic Church celebrations. Normally his musical public performances were limited towards charitable causes. The tour was with the Australian Broadcasting Commission, with six public performances and eighteen studio recitals in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, and Melbourne. He travelled as far as the town of Bowen, Queensland, to see North Queensland and to 'have a surf before the winter set in', delivering a benediction to a large congregation there. MacEwan's June to October 1951 Australian tour included concerts in Western Australia. Arriving by sea on the SS Oransay in