Orcadian fiddle and mandolin player Graham Rorie is an award-winning folk musician based in Glasgow. A finalist in the 2021 BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year and graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Traditional Music Degree, Graham has been making a name for himself as a performer, composer, session musician and producer.

A founding member of quartet ‘Gnoss’, Graham has enjoyed festival appearances across Europe including Glasgow’s Celtic Connections, Festival Interceltique de Lorient (France) and Celtica Valle d’Aosta (Italy). The band have also been nominated for three MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards including ‘Up and Coming Artist of the year 2017’ and ‘Album of the Year’ for their last two records, ‘Drawn From Deep Water’ (2019) and ‘The Light of The Moon’ (2021).

In his latest project, Graham brought together a selection of Glasgow based musicians to present a suite of newly-composed music inspired by his fellow Orcadians who travelled to northern Canada to work for the Hudson’s Bay Company during the 18th and 19th centuries. The premier of this new work took place at Celtic Connections 2020, with a sold-out headline show incorporating collaborations with Quebec’s Le Vent Du Nord. ‘The Orcadians of Hudson Bay’ was nominated for ‘Original Work of the Year’ at the Scots Trad Music Awards and was released in album form in May 2021.

An in-demand session musician, Graham has featured on fiddle and mandolin for albums by artists including the Red Hot Chilli Piper’s Dougie McCance, BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award 2017 winners Josie Duncan and Pablo Lafuente, and 2018 MG Alba Scot’s Singer of the Year Iona Fyfe.

“Rorie, as well as catching the eye by playing fiddle right-handed and mandolin left- handed but upside down, writes tunes with an engaging twist and adds imaginative colour to arrangements that are smartly punctuated and crisply executed.” - Rob Adams, The Herald

"Rorie demonstrates great compositional versatility deeply rooted in traditional music.” - Su O’Brien, folking.com

Scottish folk musician, in a range of musical guises!

HOLiDAY ON iO is a music project based on Nordic and other European music traditions, leaping into modern compositions and experimental arrangements. HOLiDAY ON iO is a true crossover project, spanning everything from different kinds of traditional music to jazz, blues, pop, progressive rock and not least electro-acoustic music and classical compositions. Through both conventional and controversial methods of creation, they try to achieve a music that has a mindset of its own, aiming to find the best mix of features from the different genres and personalities of their band members. In this mixture of different inspirations and impressions, there is one style of music that got them together and which continues to be the greatest connection between them: the Nordic folk music. Its traditions have a wide variety of sounds and colours and a rich treasure of melodies and atmospheres that really intrigue the members of the band. However, this does not imply that HOLiDAY ON iO only play traditional material, on the contrary their repertoire consists mostly of original compositions. 

IO is a moon of Jupiter, a celestial body full of vibrant colours and a multitude of mysterious phenomena. We welcome you to join our journey towards new, exciting and astronomically unexplainable sound-creations, spanning through light-years of open space!

HOLiDAY ON iO are:

David Lombardi: Fiddle (Ita)
Elias Frigård: Saxophones (Swe/Fin) 
Markus Räsänen: Accordeon (Swe/Fin) 
David Henriksson: Guitar (Swe) 

Brooke Sharkey grew up in London before moving to France at the age of 9, which naturally draws her songwriting to be both in English and French. 
Her musical journey started in 2009 when she started to perform in the streets of Norfolk  followed by London, Paris, Bristol and beyond. 
Brooke has since released 3 EPs and 2 albums  of her own songs with the latest gaining her praise from The Guardian naming her one of the top 50 independent artists in the world doing it their own way. She has headlined venues such as The Jazz cafe, played at Cambridge folk festival and won (ex aequo) the “Concert of the year award” at The Union Chapel in 2017.
Her music has been compared to the likes of Kate Bush, Ane Brun and Lhasa de sela. Her unique, ethereal and distinctive vocals and lyrics explore the vast yet intricate themes of love, loss, hope, beauty, nature, seduction and wonder. 
Having relocated to Oslo, Norway, in 2020, she has been recording a collection of new songs entitled Under Stones. Her 2024 Autumn/winter shows will be presenting these new songs live prior to their release in 2025.

Rick Fire and The Ricktones are bringing acoustic music to a new level. Driven by banjo and electric bass, the blend of instruments and arrangements is fueled by musical conversations and high-level improvisation. Rooted in bluegrass, Celtic and funk music, elements of jazz, rock, classical, blues, and gospel are also present throughout and woven together by an immovable and solid state stone groove.  “A musician defying what you might think you know about the banjo and has formed a band that will set you ablaze!” Peter Hamelin, Signature Sounds


The group brings an undeniable upbeat energy to their performances with the dynamic rise and fall of their individual jaw-dropping instrumental mastery.  Enhancing the vibrancy and virtuosic picking further is their heart-felt, heart-churning delivery of song through harmony of voice, all collectively underpinned by the group’s immaculate sense of rhythm.  Pizzazz, humor and a sense for theatrics make each performance an unforgettable show.


At the center of the music is Ricky Mier, an award-winning banjo player, composer and Alumnus of Berklee College of Music, who also co-founded Twisted Pine, Cat And The Moon and was a member of Hot Day At The Zoo. Mier is winner of the gold medal at the 2014 Freshgrass Banjo Contest and with his band Twisted Pine has won band contests at Freshgrass, Thomas Point Beach and tied for first place at Rocky Grass.  


Mier has performed on the main stages of other major festivals such as Grey Fox, Celtic Connections (Scotland), The Green River Festival, and Joe Val.  Mier has performed with Bela Fleck and Victor Wooten and has shared the stage with acoustic heavy weights such as The Punch Brothers, Peter Rowan, Alison Brown, Hot Rize, The Gibson Brothers, New Riders Of The Purple Sage, Yonder Mountain String Band, The Sam Bush Band, Del McCoury Band, Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen, and more. 


Driven at his core by the expression of excellence, Mier brings into The Ricktones a diverse cast of burgeoning virtuosos, each rooted in the pursuit of their own excellences both as a band member and as an individual artist.  Explorative solos, capturing the hearts of songs, and conversational trading with each other abound, providing a unique experience each show.  The Ricktones don't just play music, they play with the music - and speak through it.  Every player is strong enough to stand on their own, but by uniting they become a supergroup with Mier at the heart.


"The Ricktones deliver a high octane performance….  Tight harmonies coupled with blazing instrumentals combine to provide a stunning show that's full of surprises."  Sal Sauco, President, Rhode Island Bluegrass Association.  Rick Fire and The Ricktones are currently in the studio recording their debut EP and touring across the Northeast.

Producing, drumming and making music with my mouth. all around. my name is ulysses.

Pre-save new album "Seeker" here: https://ffm.to/bdmseeker 

With Patty Griffin, the Allman Brothers, Carole King, and Mavis Staples among her many influences, Brigitte DeMeyer draws on roots rock, classic pop songcraft, and more for her diverse Americana. After beginning her career playing in bands in her hometown of San Diego, California during the mid-'80s, she released her first solo album, Another Thousand Miles, in 2000. Her sixth LP, 2014's Savannah Road, was inspired by reading Gregg Allman's 2012 memoir, and she teamed up with frequent collaborator Will Kimbrough for the duet album Mockingbird Soul in 2017.  DeMeyer's newest release Seeker will be released in 2021.

Born in Michigan and raised in Point Loma, San Diego, DeMeyer grew up singing in gospel choirs. She graduated from Point Loma High School, then attended the University of San Diego, where she earned a degree in international relations in 1986. While there, she met San Diego music scene staple Steve Poltz, whom she credits as a mentor along with the Beat Farmers' Joey Harris. DeMeyer started out playing in bands such as the Syndicate of Soul and the Pink Expectations, then relocated to the Bay Area in 1990. 

In San Francisco, DeMeyer met guitarist Chris Rossbach. They played together in several area bands in the '90s, and he would later contribute guitar and songwriting to her first few solo albums. Meanwhile, DeMeyer studied guitar with bluegrass specialists including Peter Rowan, Del McCoury, and Tim O'Brien, and in the late '90s she trained with vocal coach Judy Davis. She made her solo recording debut in 2000 with the self-produced Another Thousand Miles. With a backing band that included mandolin and fiddle player Mike Marshall, it received broader distribution from The Orchard in 2001. She followed it in 2003 with Nothing Comes Free, and in the meantime earned a spot opening for Bob Dylan at the KBCO World Class Rockfest in Colorado. Her third album, 2006's Something After All, was produced by Brady Blade of Emmylou Harris' Spyboy backing band. Its guest musicians included such high-profile names as Steve Earle, Daniel Lanois, Buddy Miller, and the Indigo Girls' Emily Saliers. DeMeyer returned in 2009 with The Red River Flower, which featured, among others, Miller and Al Perkins (Manassas, the Flying Burrito Brothers). 

DeMeyer moved to Nashville in 2010, and released Rose of Jericho a year later. Co-produced by DeMeyer and Blade, it included appearances by Sam Bush, Mike Farris, and, on lap steel, Perkins. Immersed musically and thematic in the American South, her sixth solo album, 2014's Savannah Road, was inspired by Gregg Allman's memoir My Cross to Bear. She wrote most of the songs with alt-country artist Will Kimbrough. They joined forces again on 2017's. 

“Brigitte Demeyer sent me a sheet of lyrics and we were off and running. Words with depth and bite, rhythm and ease. And her voice! Rarely do you hear a voice with such natural soulfulness, grit combined with beauty, let alone combined with lyrics so inspiring and poetic. I loved making this record and how it came out. It took us on a journey. Brigitte Demeyer is inspiring.” ~ Jano Rix. Producer of Seeker

"I haven't fallen this hard for a voice in twenty years. Brigitte's timbre is utterly unique and her delivery is gorgeous. This record has become one of my main sources of solace." ~ Trina Shoemaker (Sheryl Crow, Dixie Chicks, Indigo Girls), Grammy-winning producer/recording engineer at Dauphin Street Sound in Alabama

Scattering and sowing all the flickering verses, abandoned tapes, harmonic home for rustic adventures.

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