As we recently mentioned, Julie Fowlis was among the brilliant Scottish talent that performed at this year’s Sidmouth Folk Week. She weaved her magic spell upon a captivated audience during a top-class performance at The Ham. The organisers also managed to film Julie in session before the main performance. Watch her below performing an unaccompanied Gaelic song from the North Uist tradition – Òran an Ròin which translates as Seal Song also features on her Alterum album (reviewed here).
As Julie Fowlis continues to develop her broad repertoire of Gaelic song, alterum succeeds in exploring connections with other languages, cultures and art forms that enrich her music even further… Above all, though, alterum is, quite simply, an album of the most beautiful music. Neil McFadyen, Folk Radio UK
Julie also performed on The Lost Words – Spell Songs, a recent Featured Album of the Month, she was among a host of great artists that featured on the album including Karine Polwart, Seckou Keita, Kris Drever, Kerry Andrew, Rachel Newton, Beth Porter and Jim Molyneux. It was inspired by The Lost Words, a book by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris. In a recent interview with Jackie she told Folk Radio how she decided to paint each musician as a creature, Julie was the hardest… “she flitted around shorebirds until she settled as a lapwing, and now this just seems so right. There’s a lightness about her, but pale skin, dark hair, a dancing grace, and colour so rich in her voice that also wavers like the flight of a peewit.” Read the full interview here.
Julie appears with the ‘Spell Songs’ project at The Royal Albert Hall for the Proms on Sunday 25th August.
For more dates visit https://www.juliefowlis.com/tour-dates/