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…
Artist Profiles: Dochas
Tag: Scottish music
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: Bad Haggis
Virtuoso bagpipe player Eric Rigler and his Celtic-infused, world music fusion band Bad Haggis combine the traditional sounds of Scottish and Irish bagpipes and…
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…