Farewell sweet Lise Sinclair, may the angels in heaven wrap you with love.

The title track from the new album of songs by Lise SInclair, based on the stories in George Mackay Brown's 'A Time to Keep', a collaboration between Lise and Ástvaldur Traustason, featuring musicians from the Northern Isles and Iceland: Inge Thomson, Ewen Thomson, Brian Cromarty and Icelandic translations by A∂alstein Asberg Sigur∂sson, to be released 8th March St Magnus Cathedral 

TOUR: THURS 8 - St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall / FRI 9 - Fair Isle / SUN 11 - Town Hall, Lerwick  / THURS 15 - Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh / SAT 17 - Reykjavík, Iceland

a time to keep

from A TIME TO KEEP, guitars, banjo, accordion and piano, and Brian Cromarty singing The Ballad of Check Harra (lyrics by George Mackay Brown)

tour/album launch MARCH: THURS 8 - St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall / FRI 9 - Fair Isle / SUN 11 - Town Hall, Lerwick  / THURS 15 - Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh / SAT 17 - Reykjavík, Iceland

the five of spades

a lullaby, the RSNO send lovely musicians in to Fair Isle before the storms, earthquakes and aurora, for Friday night's compass point concert... Skerries/Fair Isle/Foula/Unst

Lise collaborates with Duncan Swindells (clarinet) and musicians Jane Reid (violin) and Rosina Alter (bassoon) from the RSNO and baritone/Uncle Neil Thomson

live recording, by Michael Stout in the Fair Isle Hall while the storm raged on the outside...

original idea based on a peerie tune fae Chris Stout, written for his 'Tingaholm' — RSNO premier in Lerwick 4th March

fasten d compass here

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