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This summer I shared experience from our Trad Arts Mentoring programme at TRACS, at a workshop with Scotland’s Singing for Health Network led by Brianna Robertson-Kirkland and Sophie Boyd. Together with Anne Gallacher, Director of Luminate, we discussed the importance...

I'll be singing out and about over next few months. First up is Cullerlie Traditional Singing weekend on 26-28 July. Then the Great Glenkens Music Night in Parton Village Hall on 24 August. Heading north again for Findhorn Bay Festival on 28 September!

I'm delighted to be the new chairperson of Scotland's Traditional Music Forum. It's an organisation I've been involved with, one way or another, for many years. It has a diverse membership across Scotland, and does lots of great work championing trad music for...

I've written a book about learning and teaching traditional music in community-based settings, drawing on my PhD research with Glasgow Folk-Music Workshop. It's an ethnographic work which examines learning and teaching practices and ideologogy. It also  gives a...

My album, A' the way to Galloway features musicians with Galloway connections: former Dalry residents Jo Miller (song and fiddle) and Amy Geddes (fiddle and viola), singer Robyn Stapleton from Wigtownshire, with my husband Steve Sutcliffe (concertinas) and son Neil...