Scottish Bands

A list of CD and DVD recordings by top Scottish bands, including Capercaillie, Wolfstone, Salsa Celtica, Shooglenifty and Treacherous Orchestra.

Breabach

Latest release Bann - this celebrated and successful Scottish folk band plays traditional and contemporary music with innovative flair.

Treacherous Orchestra - Origins

A turbo-charged twelve-piece (plus guests) supergroup, comprising some of Scotland's finest young instrumentalists.

Peatbog Faeries

Dust is the sixth studio album from this high-energy Skye-based band.

Bags Of Rock - The Next Level

Debut album from Glasgow's 2012 Scottish New Music Awards' Group Of The Year.

Rhythmnreel

In celebration of 20 years on the road, Twenty is a long-awaited album from one of Scotland's leading Celtic rock party bands.

Face The West

The Young Fear Nothing - this young five-piece band from the Island of Lewis showcase traditional and contemporary styles at their best.

The Shee

Murmurations is the third unique album from this fantastic all-female band, with a range of musical styles which include Gaelic, Folk and Bluegrass.

Lau - Kris Drever, Aidan O'Rourke and Martin Green

The innovative trio of Martin Green (accordion), Kris Drever (guitar) and Aidan O'Rourke (fiddle).

Coast - The Turning Stone

The band is rapidly rising in popularity and this album is full of musicality and beautifully crafted lyrics.

The Outside Track

Flash Company is the latest release from this impressive folk band coming from Scotland, Ireland, Cape Breton and Vancouver.

Sprangeen

Re-issue of a recording made in 1984 by seven Edinburgh-based musicians, with an imaginative combination of instruments.

Quattro MacJazz and Clan MacJazz

Quattro MacJazz are four internationally-acclaimed jazz players from Scotland, with some hot Dixieland jazz classics.

Clyde Valley Stompers - Collection 1956 To 1961 - 2CD

Goodtime popular jazz. This double CD contains all the recordings from 1956 to 1961, including one previously unreleased track.

Skerryvore

World Of Chances is the fourth CD from this award winning band, with elements of trad, folk, rock, country and pop in their music.

Sketch - Shed Life

Describing themselves as traditional music for the 21st century, they are leading the way in a new wave of Celtic-based dancefloor sounds.

Boys Of The Lough

Traditional Scottish, Irish, English and Shetland music and song from the ever-popular group.

Chicken Pickers

This young band from Caithness have been together for about two years and combine great vocals and mastery of their instruments.

Capercaillie

Glenfinnan (Songs Of The '45) features music taken from the BBC Scotland film Raising The Standard, about the Jacobite Rising of 1745.

Croft No Five

One of Scotland’s hottest young roots-fusion outfits. Talk Of The Future takes in a wealth of rock, dance and world music influences.

Daimh

Keeping the emphasis firmly on the Gaelic culture with latest release Diversions, Dàimh are a traditional band based on the west coast.

GiveWay

Lost In This Song is the third album from the four young and talented Johnson sisters.

India Alba

Two Indian classical musicians and two Scottish traditional musicians play music demonstrating the common ground between their traditions.

The Iron Horse

The Iron Horse received critical acclaim through their imaginative and contemporary settings of traditional and self-composed music.

MacUmba

A unique and exciting Scottish bagpipe, Caribbean and Brazilian Samba drum crossover group from Scotland.

Old Blind Dogs

Wherever Yet May Be is the tenth studio album from the contemporary folk band with roots in the North East of Scotland.

Ossian - Ossian

One of the first internationally renowned bands from Scotland, with strong arrangements for sets with pipes, fiddle, flute, whistles, cello,...

The Poozies

Latest release Yellow Like Sunshine from the all-female group.

Salsa Celtica

Latest album El Camino (The Road) from the popular Scottish Latin band featuring pipes, fiddle, banjo and whistles alongside percussion and brass.

Saltfishforty

Netherbow - the multi-talented duo of Douglas Montgomery and Brian Cromarty.

Shooglenifty

Murmichan - double CD from the group still at the forefront of the folk/fusion Celtic music scene.

Steam Jenny

Four albums from one of Scotland's most popular folk song outfits - Dumbarton's Drums, Glencoe, Welcome Back and The Skye Boat Song.

The Waterboys

An Appointment With Mr Yeats features new songs created by Mike Scott, who formed The Waterboys in 1983, from the lyrics of Ireland's greatest poet, W B Yeats.

Wolfstone

Latest album Terra Firma from the Scottish band Wolfstone, whose unique blend of rock, folk and Celtic music has produced two gold albums.

The Angus Nicolson Trio - Lasses That Baffle Us

Debut album from three talented young musicians from the Highlands.

Babelfish - International Disgrace

Featuring members of Peatbog Faeries, Croft No 5 and Blazin' Fiddles - a melting pot of musical influences.

Bachue

The husband-and-wife jazz/traditional harp and piano duo of Corrina Hewat and David Milligan.

Back Of The Moon

Scottish Folk Band of the Year 2005 (Scots Trad Music Awards). Back Of The Moon blend fiddle, bagpipes, vocals and three part harmonies with a solid ...

Bellevue Rendezvous

Salamander - the Scottish-based acoustic trio with a broad European repertoire.

Blackeyed Biddy

Multi-instrumental folk group.

Black Rose Roisin Dubh - White Rabbit

A lively 5-piece Scots-Irish-American roots and folk-rock band with uilleann pipes, fiddle and whistle leading the charge.

Bodega

Under The Counter is the second release from this young band, who met whilst they were studying at Plockton's National Centre of Excellence.

Calluna

Charlotte Peterson, Anna Wendy Stevenson Rebecca Knorr and Wendy Weatherby collaborate to produce music that is fresh and spirited. ...

Canntaireachd

A group of Gaelic-speaking teenagers from around Inverness, who sing traditional and self-penned Gaelic songs.

Cantrip

Dual fiddle and pipe led band.

The Dangleberries - Nae Sleep Tae Regent Street

A band who add bagpipe influences into rock music with a unique blend of vocals, drums and guitars.

Deaf Shepherd

Ae Spark O' Nature's Fire and more.

Drop The Box

Drop The Box and more.

The Easy Club

Formed in 1982 in Sandy Bell's Bar in Edinburgh, The Easy Club blended traditional music with the influence of jazz and modern music.

Eriskay Lilt

Home To Me is the band's sixth album, featuring a fine mix of original material combined with a selection of popular favourites.

Fine Friday

Anna Wendy Stevenson (fiddle), Nuala Kennedy (flute, whistle) and Kris Drever (guitar, vocals) - imaginative arrangements and a high standard of ...

Harem Scarem

Harem Scarem's third studio album Storm In A Teacup continues to showcase their individual musicianship and instrument mastery, but has a more ...

Hom Bru

Rowin Foula Doon and No Afore Time on CD from the popular Shetland band.

Hoogie

Lively songs and tunes from the boys of Hoogie, steeped in Scottish dance music traditions.

Hullion

A Score And More - the Orkney band's fiddle and mandolin-led tunes and dialect songs are as distinctive as ever.

MeanTime

Authentic Gaelic music and song.

Jock Tamson's Bairns

One of the country's most respected traditional groups, having carried the torch for truly Scottish music since their inception at the end of the 197...

JiggeryPipery

Jiggery Pipery and more.

La Boum! - Marionette

9-piece longstanding Edinburgh based funky celtic groovers sweep the dance floors with world music latin disco rhythms and rock/pop/easy ...

Love And Money - The Devil's Debt

Love And Money is a rock/soul/funk band formed in Glasgow in 1985.

Malinky

Latest release Flower And Iron from Malinky, one of Scotland's finest song and instrumental bands.

Mouth Music - Seafaring Man

Pioneering the bringing together of traditional Gaelic vocalising with world grooves. Arrangements that are are spare yet intimate, ...

Mystery Juice - Open My Mouth and Do Nothing

Donald Hay (drums), Joe Peat (bass), Tim Mathew (fiddle, vocals) and Donald MacDougall (guitar) take Scottish music in a whole new ...

Oidche Chiadain - Ciaradh

A young band that met through the Wednesday Night (Oidhche Chiadain) group music classes run by Feis Eilean an Fhraoich.

Pipedown - The First Measure

The hypnotic rhythms and seductively seditious syncopations will command interest and fascination even from those who shrink from the '...

Saor Patrol

Rippin' electric guitar and rocking drums under the dramatic sound of the great Highland bagpipes.

Shoormal

Latest album Turning Tide from the three-part harmony group performing contemporary folk music from Shetland. Plus their earlier album Migrant.

Slange Ava

The Country-style band recorded live in concert at the Lyth Arts Centre in Caithness.

Tabache

Are You Willing? and more.

Tannas - The Collection

Tannas took Gaelic and Scottish music and song and gave it a distinctive new feel. A collection of fifteen tracks from their back catalogue ...

The Whistlebinkies

One of Scotland's longest established folk groups - formed during the great surge of interest in traditional and Celtic music and song in the late 19...

An Audience with Crooked Jack and Billy McGuire

Crooked Jack at their best; great songs; great crack and a great atmosphere.

Arran Bede - The Gossamer Mansions

Singer-songwriter Ciaran Dorris began working with Kentucky-born fiddler Kate Kramer in 1992, a relationship which spawned the band Arran ...

Badenoch - Caledon

Half of each of two popular bands, The Picts and The Cutting Edge, combined in 1998 to provide a short taster album highlighting the fresh ...

Bag O' Cats - Out of the Bag

Blues, jazz, sitar-like sonorities, Arabic winds and Balkan rhythms are underlaid with Celtic consiousness to create an amazing musical ...

Band-Re - Strathosphere

A Scots piper and Sardinia bouzouki player formed Band-Re in 2003 gigging in outback Sardinia. Blending their traditions, particularly ...

Big Sky - The Source

Charlie McKerron (fiddle, guitar, keyboards, vocals) and John Saich (guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals), two of the core members of ...

Boogalusa

Boogalusa and more.

Caerketton

An energetically eclectic C.D. for ceilidhing to, strutting your stuff to, or phasing out to totally! Mildly manic but intensely musical. ...

Calasaig

Making For The Shore and more.

Calico - Songdogs

Calico's second album, and another stunning collection. The fiddles of Tola Custy and Deirdre Moynihan combined with the uilleann pipes and ...

Cannach - The Moons of Glenloy

The debut album from a five -piece band from Aberdeenshire, with a Shetland fiddler, and several multi-instrumentalist/singers, including ...

Canterach

The trademark of the distinctive Canterach sound has been the strong involvement of pipes and fiddle driving the tunes. The band's line-up ...

Cantychiels

An impressive collection of musicians. A great band with a wealth of experience, resulting in an album of great depth and subtlety. ...

Cauther Fair - Something Old, Something New

Comprising strong vocals and an array of instruments.. . a pleasing folk mix.

The Clydesiders - Crossing The Borders

A Celtic folk sound influenced by country, rock and traditional Scottish music, brought to you by this long established group of musicians ...

Coila - Full On

Coila started off as a ceilidh band, but have subsequently developed into one of the leading contemporary folk groups of the new millenium. ...

Coinneach

Ice, Trees And Lullabies and more.

The Colour of Memory - The Old Man and The Sea

A conceptualised album of Gaelic and English vocals against a background of gentle pulsing music. Pictures in words and sound; very ...

Conundrum - Tomorrow's Tradition

Michael Philip leads this contemporary ceilidh band in a dozen tracks for dancing and listening. Vocals are provided by Hilary MacLean and ...

Corner House - Caught Up

Lively Scottish/Irish tunes and songs performed by Leo McCann (button box, whistles), Paddy Duncan (fiddle), Gary Keenan (guitar, vocals, ...

Corran Raa

Traditional style self penned tunes alongside well-known songs from this four piece band from Midlothian.

Crannog - The Stars That Guard The Sky

UR/CDA2 Touches of Runrig and Capercaillie but with many of their own songs given the contemporary Crannog treatment make this a distinctive Celtic ...

Cuig - Prospect

CU1CD11 Excellent debut album from this English-based Irish band. Sean Taylor, Norman Holmes, Martin Matthews, Paul Ruane, and Deirdre Ruane together ...

Cythara

Cythara and more.

Deaf Heights

Scottish Cajun group - Heart Songs and Les Flammes D'Enfer.

The Dull Fudds - Gibberish

Borders band featuring Katie Forbes, Jenny Miller, Anna King and James Knowles.

Eclipse - Never Say Goodbye

This three-piece band from Wick has been together since 1998 performing covers and self-penned material. They are the perfect wedding band, ...

Empty House - Gone But Not Forgotten

SBRS001 Sally Edwards and Katrina Scott - well-known as a vocal duo - are joined by Charlie McIntosh on guitar, with assorted other musician friends ...

Enter The Haggis - Let the Wind Blow High

Powerful,anarchic,Scottish/Celtic sounds that thunder out from this new Canadian based band. Raw energy and beautiful melodies combine to ...

Farrar - Up All Night

Self-penned songs of Scotland performed by John Strachan (vocals, guitar) and Kevin Bain (vocals harmonies, guitar, bodhran).

The Fife - Gypsy Spirit

SMD612 A rip-roaring collection of traditional Scots and Irish songs and tunes. Art Wilson (vocals, guitar), John Pauley (electric violin), Tom Annan ...

Follow That Camel - Alba Vinyl

And now for something.. . Celtic-based yet integrating Gallagher and Lyle, Lieber and Stoller, and assorted trads. in supreme style. Vocals, ...

Folk 'N' Roll - A Far Away Place

High energy acoustic music from the Isle of Lewis, in a folk-rock style.

Foundry Band - Up To Date

At long last and due to popular demand, The Foundry Band have put together another CD, some eleven years since their last album. Geordie ...

Fridarey - Across The Waters

An unusual but beautifully balanced CD from a group firmly rooted in Frideray, the old Norse name for Fair Isle. Most of the singing is ...

Hamish MacGregor and The Blue Bonnets

Top traditional musicians play tunes associated with place names.

Heartland - The Red Shed

Folky, fun and funky, Heartland are just the trick to brighten up a dull night. Celtic classics in breezy style on fiddle, guitar, mandolin; ...

Heritage - Tell Tae Me

Invigorating 7-piece band. Jack Beck, Pete Clark, George Haig, Alan MacDonald, Alistair Marshall, Lindsay Porteous, Mike Ward, Dominique ...

Highland Connection - Gaining Ground

The combined talents of three very talented performers and composers, Janice Clark (guitar and vocals), Dagger Gordon (mandolin) and Ian ...

Highlander - Born To Be A Warrior

This exciting folk-rock band from Fife plays rip-roaring instrumentals and stirring, patriotic songs by the distinctive voice of Glen ...

Hobotalk - Notes On Sunset

CR1005 A gentle contemporary ballady album, with Marc Pilley's songs counterpointed by guitars and piano, keyboards, bass and drums. Life analysed, ...

Hot Toddy

Purely Medicinal and more.

The Hudson Swan Band

Flyte Of Fancy and more.

Journeyman - Live DVD

Gavin Marwick (fiddle and composer), Ruth Morris (nyckelharpa), Gregor Lowrey (accordion), Fraser Fifield (sax, whistles, kaval, cajon), ...

The Journeymen - Wanderlust

The Journeymen play and sing mainly self-penned material with a full-frontal sound led by highland bagpipes, fiddle, keyboard, and guitars.

Junction Pool

Innovative, exceptionally skillful in arrangement and musicianship, full of rich harmony and instrumental blending. Bright and playful ...

Keep It Up

Keep It Up and more.

Kingdom Folk Band - Restless

With George Mackie on mandolin, tenor banjo, bodhran, whistles and vocals, and Alex Killin on guitar, bodhran and vocals. Kingdom presents ...

Kinnell - Donald's Dog

Kinnell's Scottish and Irish roots permeate through a cosmopolitan collection of tunes meshed together intoa fabric of melody rich in ...

The Keltz

The Mystery Of Amergin and more.

Klass

Jenny Simpson (vocals), Bobby Sinclair (guitar) and Eddie Kay (keyboards).

Koshka - Shara

A contemporary fusion of Russian folk, European Gypsy and HotClub music, making for a tremendous style and swing. Guitarist Nigel Clark and ...

Label - Revealed

Inverness-based band. Olivia Ross (vocals, violin), Nigel Fuller (drums), Alec Brockie (bass) and Tommy Mackay (guitars).

Laverock - By Design

Trad. tunes and new arrangements, breezy ceilidh stylings and a bright rumbunctious sound. Fiddles, keys, guitars and percussion create a ...

The Lions Rampant - Freedom!

Turbo charged stadium rock for today's Scotland. A new Tartan Rock Band featuring pipes, drums, bass, whistles and many other instruments. ...

Lomond Cornkisters

The popular group Lomond Cornkisters from the 1980s.

The Lorelei - Progression

This band from Aberdeenshire create a compelling mix of folk, punk and other genres - described as "Total Thrash Speed Folk"!

The Lush Rollers

Out Of The Woods (Ep) and more.

The MacDonald Bros

Latest release Young Celts from the X-Factor pop vocal duo, plus earlier recordings.

Makfolk - Then And Now

Fine fiddle music and folk song.

Mike Travis' EH15 - The View From Where

Omnivorous jazzers playing original compositions in an old church hall in Joppa, Edinburgh. Reggae feel, Brazilian percussion, African ...

Muckle Ado

By Request and more.

New Celeste - It's A New Day

Burns with beat, and folk with a flourish. Tunes and songs from a multi-talented traditional/Scottish/bluesy supergroup. Fiddles and pipes ...

No Sweat - Six Whole Days

Shetland's longest serving Rock Band - still going strong after 30 years! Recorded live on their home island of Yell.

The Oatcakes - Never Mind The Bannocks

Lively wild ceilidh music with a touch of rock, a hint of roll, and loads of enthusiasm. Grab one before the packet's empty.

On The Wagon

Songs and tunes.

PaddyRasta - Listen To Your Heart

A wonderfully funky-folky ethno-eco CD. Afro-Irish reggae-rap with conscience. Banjo, bass, whistle, percussion and button box, plus ...

Pagan Poets

Runes and more.

Parcel O' Rogues

A young group (all under 20) with Battlefield Band's future fiddler John McCusker and the fine voice of Patrick Murphy. Rave reviews.

The Picts

Moving Sands and more.

The Porridge Men - Planet Porridge

Exciting young contemporary ceilidh band with a highly infectious mix of pipes, fiddle and accordion.Guaranteed to get any party swinging to ...

Ragged Glory - Quiet Days

The folk vocal group of George Archibald, Jim Weatherston, May Weatherston and Charlie Milne, born from The Nitten Folk Club of Midlothian.

Rallion

Latest release One For Sorrow (CD) from the acoustic folk group.

Real Time

Another Place, Another Time - Judy Dinning, Tom Roseburgh and Kenny Speirs.

Reel Time - Keeping It Reel

Pipe-led ceilidh mayhem! Bagpipes, large and small, played by Roddy Deans, are mixed with musical flavours from around the world, with a ...

Scocha

The popular Borders folk group.

Scottish Step Dance Company - Sole Music

Scottish and Cape Breton stepdancing styles with full volume footwork to music that segues from traditional through folk-funk to blues and ...

Sgiobalta - 2007

Eight young musicians perform in various combinations, on fiddles, pipes, flute, guitar, clarsach and flute. The tunes are either traditional ...

Shindig - The Rolling Waves

Celtic cool! A fascinating mix of traditional tunes and contemporary riffs, standard sounds and dead cool groove! Fiddle, whistles, guitars, ...

Shoramere - Still Around

Nine brilliant young Orcadian fiddlers skip and slide their way through a wide selection of island and Scottish tunes. Grand harmonies, ...

Skelbo - Skelbo

Madonna's wedding band and regulars at Skibo Castle, Skelbo play for dancing and showcase the superb blues-ey vocals and guitar of Iain ...

Skelpaig - Aye?

Lively, energetic music from this dynamic young group: Katherine Liley (fiddle), David Adam (pipes, whistle, flute), David Sutherland (...

Skotrok - The Hills Are Alive

Well-known Scottish songs and tunes given the screaming guitars and rock drumming treatment!

Smalltalk

A very talented and experienced trio of musicians: Billy Ross (Ossian), Iain MacInnes (Tannahill Weavers), Stuart Morrison (Ceolbeg), song, ...

Solan - Northern Shore

Concertina, vocals and fiddle blend together to create a very harmonious piece of listening. Haunting airs, songs with a story, waltzes and ...

Stringjammer - Long Road Home

Acoustic project, the brainchild of former Shooglenifty bassist Conrad Ivitsky.

Sunhoney - November

Fiddler and composer Aidan O'Rourke and friends get together for a contemporary session, with Aidan's trad-influenced tunes sets offset ...

Suntreader - The Voyage

Scottish composer Morris Pert is joined by Peter Robinson and Neville Whitehead for a great session of jazz improvisation. Long believed lost, ...

Tandem Band - The Arduthie Waltz

SMD604 Compilation of their three previous albums 'Crossing Borders', 'Black Cat' and 'Out Of The Dark'. Vocals, guitar, mandolin, tenor mandola, ...

Tarneybackle

Songs by Burns and Tannahill sit alongside newer compositions on Tarneybackle's CD Winds Of Freedom.

Tartan Amoebas

Evolution and more.

Tattie Jam - Jam

(vocals, guitar, didgeridoo, banjo).

Three Peace Sweet

Three Peace Sweet - Generations and more.

Torridon

The Bog (CD) and Highland Pride (CD).

The Train Journey North - First Tracks

Train Journey North are a young traditionally based band steadily establishing themselves on the Scottish folk scene. Brought up in ...

Trudge Euphoria - The Face That?

Shooglenifty-style Scottish dance groove with vocals. Funky bass-lines, chunky drums and rhythmic mandola back up soaring electric guitar, ...

The Unit - Playing Giants

Eclectic, electric, and acoustic! Folky but not folk-twee. An inspired combination of Celtic and Eastern European sounds with plenty of ...

The Unusual Suspects - Live In Scotland

A major blast of sound, this features a 22-piece folk/celtic big band. A tremendous sound, and a fantastic idea. Fiddles, sax, accordion, ...

Whirligig

Celtic Dawn and more.

Wild Biscuit

Scottish band from the West Highlands.