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

the five of spades

Lise Sinclair

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