November was written for a particularly bitter Autumn. The second tune is a reel dedicated to all the wonderful Blursday Thursday and Sunday nutters at my local, The Dalriada, who taught me how to really experience the joy of music and friends again! Here's to you all- I owe you a lot! 


Piece written by Sally for a composition project at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, live performance from May 2014.  

Sally Simpson (fiddle) , Kirsten Hendry (fiddle), Mhairi MacKinnon (fiddle)
Campbell Parker- Viola
Rufus Huggan- Cello



November- One For The Dalriada

Casual kitchen session! Here I'm playing around with a tune I wrote for a failed hiking trip in Jämtland, Sweden, with a good friend Callum Noble. Despite being pretty well prepared for a 5 day trip in late June, we were forced to retreat in the middle of day one due to thick thick thick soggy snow and fog! We'll be back... Apologies for the sketchy sound quality and tuning, it's very much a live take (on an iphone...). 

Photo taken by Callum, of me when we got back into the valley, attempting to ring fine fiddler and friend Magdalena Eriksson (https://www.facebook.com/MagdalenaErikssonMusiker/?fref=ts) to ask if we could perhaps retreat to her family home instead. We did, and enjoyed a couple of nights staying in their playhouse (!) before heading off to walk the Höga Kusten's Leden instead.

The Noble Retreat

Scottish folk musician, in a range of musical guises!

Sally Simpson

Popular tracks