Mo nighean donn, ho gù is a traditional Gaelic waulking song. The track leans into the rhythmic aspects of the tradition and plays around with the accompaniment, with the backing vocals also imitating and exaggerating the beat-driven feel of a waulking song, which would have been sung during the tweed or tartan-making process. Bringing the […]
Duntulm by Mist & Wing
Step Into The Light is the debut EP from Americana/Folk duo Mist & Wing. Their first release blends Scottish indie-folk with hints of country: “If you mixed Angus & Julia Stone with The Jayhawks and The Chicks, this is what you’d get.” Alan & Grace Murray (graduates of UHI Applied Music & the Royal College […]
Journey by Bradley Parker
Bradley Parker, 25, is a piper & whistle-player from Portavogie, Northern Ireland. Bradley has performed at events such as Glastonbury Music Festival, Celtic Connections & Celtic Colour International Festival. In 2012, he was awarded Northern Ireland’s Young Musician of the Year and won the Gordon Duncan Memorial Competition in 2019. Bradley recently graduated from the […]
The Lowlands of Holland by ELÍR
‘The Lowlands of Holland’ is the new single from Glasgow based folk trio ELÍR. The song tells the story of a young women who has been left bereft after her love is press-ganged into joining the Navy and tragically drowns on the voyage to New Holland. ELÍR is a contemporary folk trio based in Glasgow […]
Swing and Turn by Iona Fyfe
An Appalachian song from the singing of Jean Ritchie, I first heard Swing and Turn (Jubilee) from Laura Cortese at Orkney Folk Festival in 2017. The song can be found in Jean’s own book “Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians as Sung by Jean Ritchie” reissued by the University of Kentucky Press in 2016. The […]
Windsong by Eabhal
This 3/4 Strathespey was written by Hamish Napier for the Vass family’s yacht during it’s Neil Gunn inspired adventures in 2014. Eabhal came together while based on the Isle of South Uist in the Scottish Outer Hebrides. Playing traditional music the band draws inspiration from many different cultures and delivers a spirited, inventive blend of […]
Out of My Own Light by Louise Bichan
In 2013, Orkney fiddler and photographer Louise Bichan embarked on a unique musical and sentimental journey, between her native northern isles and coast-to-coast Canada, in the footsteps of her late paternal grandmother Margaret, née Tait (1925-2008). The result – originally premièred at Orkney Folk Festival in 2015, and now captured as an album – is […]
