Ross Ainslie + Hamish Napier

Ross Ainslie is one of Scotland’s finest traditional musicians and composers, playing pipes, whistles and cittern. He is renowned for his highly acclaimed solo material, and as a skilled performer and prolific collaborator who performs regularly with others.

Hamish Napier is a Scottish folk flautist, pianist, singer, educator and composer inspired by the heritage and nature of his native landscape of Strathspey. 5 years ago, after nearly 2 decades living and working in Glasgow and Boston’s vibrant, multi-genre music scenes, he returned home to his native Strathspey to begin his ‘Strathspey Pentalogy’ – an ambitious 10-year project to produce 5 landscape and heritage inspired albums. The River (‘16) and The Railway (‘18) received 5- stars in national newspapers. The Woods (’20) won ‘Album of the Year’ in the Scots Trad Music Awards, and Hamish contributed significantly to two other recent winners Black Cuillin (‘23) and Sandwood (’18) by Duncan Chisholm, with whom he has a successful long-standing co-writing partnership with.