{"id":10871,"date":"2018-03-27T09:05:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T08:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/?p=10871"},"modified":"2018-03-27T10:03:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T09:03:25","slug":"trad-music-spotlight-kirsty-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/trad-music-spotlight-kirsty-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Trad Music Spotlight: Kirsty Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Hands Up for Trad\u2019s Trad Music Spotlight<\/a> is a monthly feature on a band or solo artist. It was first launched in February 2015 and features musicians who are working in the trad scene \u2013 both in Scotland and around the world. We asked Kirsty Law a few questions.<\/p>\n

What’s happening?<\/strong>
\nI am currently releasing my brand new audiovisual album project, ‘Young Night Thought’, produced by Ben Seal.
\nNamed after a small Robert Louis Stevenson poem, Young Night Thought is a new album of original contemporary folk, released with an accompanying short film by Daniel Warren and triptych of oil paintings by Kirsty Whiten.
\nWith songs written in both Scots language and English. Joining the band line up of Esther Swift on pedal harp (Twelfth Day, Unthanks ‘Mount The Air’), Owen Curtis Williams on drums (Withered Hand) and Catriona Price on fiddle (Fara, Twelfth Day, GRIT Orchestra), the album also features special vocal performances from Jarlath Henderson (Capercaille, Michael McGoldrick band), Carla Easton (TeenCanteen) and an exciting co-write\/duet with multi award-winning singer songwriter Karine Polwart.<\/p>\n

Young Night Thought Has been a highly collaborate creative process, a song-maker, a filmmaker and a painter, each one\u2019s practice feeding into the creativity of the other, whilst – through a lens of Scots folklore – sharing a dialogue around childhood perception, imagination and play. And, as the project progressed, seeing how songs, stories and images from throughout time can lead us to rediscover this part of ourselves in adulthood.<\/p>\n

\"\"When did it happen?<\/strong>
\nOnce the seed of this idea came to my mind, my first port of call was recorder producer and engineer, Ben Seal (Bella Hardy’s ‘With The Dawn’). Ben is a technically brilliant engineer and creative force who could help me bring these plans into the real world. Then, last year, after a lengthy creative process with Daniel and Kirsty W, followed by a wonderful time recording at Ben’s studio, The Piggery, the trio (myself, Esther Swift, Owen Curtis Williams) were invited by Ian Rankin to come and perform some of the new material as part of ‘A Night For Rebus’ at Edinburgh’s Queen’s Hall. The first official performance of the ‘Young Night Thought’ launch tour will be at The Voodoo Rooms in Edinburgh on 8th March with support from Urban Farm Hand.<\/p>\n