Mharhi Baird (Ayrshire) is a talented flute player and singer, who since her formative musical years in the remote Outer Hebrides, under the tutelage of renowned piper Iain MacDonald, has gone on to complete a BA Scottish Music & an MA Irish Traditional Music Performance. She received two highly sought after awards from the Dewar Arts Awards Agency in 2008 & 2014 and has performed & taught for numerous festivals & organisations across Europe and the US. 

BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award Winner

“Her voice is soft as rain, swooping as a seabird, rooted in the traditions of the Hebrides. When she stops, the audience rise to their feet in a breaking wave of fierce applause." The Independent 

Despite her tender age of 22, Lewis-born singer Mischa Macpherson has already scooped several major UK folk awards – a fitting testament to her music’s pure-distilled expressiveness and radiant vitality. Named Gaelic Singer of the Year at the MG Alba Scots Trad Music awards and BBC Radio 2’s Young Folk Award Winner her following is fast growing.

Having grown up immersed in the distinctive culture of the Outer Hebrides, she unearthed her love for music and Gaelic at a very early age, and it is these influences that the young singer now presents with clarity and tenderness to audiences around the world.

Mischa has performed in Australia, Canada, Germany, Holland, Scandinavia and Romania, as well as to leading UK folk festivals in front of crowds as large as 20,000 people (Fairport’s Cropredy Convention). Her music was brought to the forefront of the UK’s wider musical audience after a live session on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 3 in 2014 and she has since collaborated in a handful of world music commissions with the likes of Galician piper Carloz Nunez and Pakistani siblings Suraj and Chad Khan.


Naomi Harvey, Magnus Lundmark, Ewan MacPherson & Brigid Collins. The Vessel Project is a unique coming together of four creative minds to explore the inner life of songs. Led by the song itself through the singing of Naomi Harvey, the accompaniment takes the shape of layered soundscapes created by multi-instrumentalist Ewan MacPherson and percussionist Magnus Lundmark, while artist Brigid Collins fashions intricate 'song vessels', a visual response to the imagery and emotion of the songs.

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