Catriona McKay

For about 30 years, the award-winning duo Chris Stout and Catriona McKay have catapulted Scottish music traditions and instruments into the contemporary world of music making. Virtuosic and cinematic, the intense and rugged coastal scenery and the dramatic seas that surround their respective origins in Fair Isle and Dundee are ever-present in this unique and treasured duo sound. The result is a dynamic and intrepidly adventurous sound that transcends genre while remaining immovably tethered to place. Hailed as »clear and strong … always a startling freshness and spontaneity at work… virtuosic and physically engaging« by The Glasgow Herald, their distinctive music has been called »sonically exquisite« by The Guardian and »breathtaking« by fROOTS magazine.