isla ratcliff

Isla Ratcliff is a Scottish fiddle player, singer and composer from Edinburgh. Her debut album The Castalia features traditional and self-composed tunes inspired by the 4 months that she spent in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia in 2019, including a trip to New Brunswick to meet her distant relatives. Described as ‘quite the best debut album that has come this way in a long time’ (The Living Tradition), Isla’s album expresses her love for the tradition, its ethos of community, and the power of music to bring people together. 

playing on saturday 17 june