The "Queen of Gaelic Song" will be commemorated with a special memorial cross in a Glasgow cemetery.
One of Queen Victoria’s favourite singers, Jessie MacLachlan toured Europe and sang at some of the world’s top venues.
She also notably provided the vocals for the first ever Gaelic song recorded.
Mary Ann Kennedy, a vocalist and one of the spearheads of the operation, said: “I grew up in Pollokshields, never knowing that this lady was lying at rest ten minutes away from me.
“I think it’s really important that we all know where we come from and I’m very much someone who sees Gaelic as something that belongs in the present day.
“To raise the profile of women like Jessie is something really important to me.”
Taking two years, the restoration project has finally come to fruition and MacLachlan's cross will be unveiled this Friday at noon during a public rededication ceremony.
MacLachlan's music and Argyll piper Angus MacColl, whose grandfather played at her funeral, will also be featured in dedication to her memory.
Born in Oban in the Highlands and buried in the Victorian-style Cathcart cemetery in 1916, she died just before her 50th birthday during a perilous journey escaping the outbreak of the First World War.
Until 2020, her cross remained destroyed and dilapidated for many years.
Musician Mary Ann Kennedy and academics Dr Priscilla Scott and Professor Wilson McLeod then banded together to restore the memorial and preserve MacLachlan's memory.
As part of the effort, the team launched a public fundraiser which helped raise more than £4000 and received donations from several of the famed venues around the world that MacLachlan played in during her heyday.
This money was added to by Creative Scotland’s Maoin nan Ealan Gàidhlig (the Gaelic Arts Fund) which matched what the group had managed to raise, doubling the total to £8000.
Master stonemason Alex MacIntyre of Glasgow company MacIntyre Memorials helped the effort by providing work on the restoration of the 3.5m, 14-tonne structure.
The project faced many hardships, predominantly due to Covid-19, but has found the pale pink of the Aberdeenshire Balmoral Red granite that symobolised MacLachlan's ties to Queen Victoria.
On Saturday, May 14, a day after the ceremony, an online talk by Dr Scott will be hosted by the Friends of Cathcart Cemetery as an opportunity to educate the public on MacLachlan's life and career.
BBC ALBA will also broadcast a documentary on MacLachlan in June of this year, as part of its Trusadh series.
