Artist Profiles: Donnie Munro Donnie Munro from Uig on the Isle of Skye was frontman for Runrig during the height of the Scottish band’s popularity…
Artist Profiles: Donnie Munro
Tag: Scotland
Artist Profiles: Dochas
Dochas attracted a lot of attention in the Scottish traditional music scene in 2003. The band initially featured five talented young women from the Highlands…
Entrancing Modern Celtic Sounds of Scotland and Brittany
Alain Genty and Joanne McIver – Eternal Tides (Buda Records, 2017) Eternal Tides is a beautiful and mesmerizing album by two masters in the Celtic…
Artist Profiles: Corrina Hewat
Singer, harp player, composer and arranger Corrina Hewat was born in Edinburgh on December 21st, 1970. Over the past years Corrina has attracted attention…
Artist Profiles: Chris Stout
Shetland fiddler Chris Stout is one of the finest fiddlers of his generation in the UK. Stout was best known as a frontline member of…
Artist Profiles: Ceolbeg
Ceolbeg – Ceol beag is a Gaelic phrase meaning literally small music. It refers to the jigs, reels, and strathpeys of traditional Scottish pipe music…
Artist Profiles: Catriona MacDonald
Catriona MacDonald began playing as a child back in 1981. Less than two years later, she took both the title of Young Fiddler of the…
Artist Profiles: Catherine-Ann MacPhee
Catherine Ann McPhee is one of the great Gaelic voices. She was born in the Island of Barra (Scotland) and worked as an actor and…
Artist Profiles: Calum MacKinnon
Calum is from the island of Tiree in the Hebrides. He started learning the fiddle at an early age, from a neighbor, Willie Kemp, who…
Artist Profiles: Burach
Burach was one of the most innovative and popular bands to come out of the new wave of Scottish musical inventiveness combining Celtic music and…