Iona Fyfe

Fresh from receiving the Musician of The Year award at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards on Saturday, listen to Iona Fyfe’s new single ‘Poor Ditching Boy’, a Scots translation of the Richard Thompson song which she also talks to us about.

Watch the accompanying video for ‘The Alabama’, the exceptionally moving new album single from HAV, featuring the award-winning Scots singer Iona Fyfe…a beckoning beacon of light for their new album.

Watch Iona Fyfe and Michael Biggins, performing her new single ‘The Wild Geese’ which also marks a successful campaign she led for Spotify to add Scots to its list of languages.

The first week of August sees the Devon town of Sidmouth reverberate to the Sounds Of Modern Scotland, thanks to the support that the long-running Sidmouth Folk Festival receives from Creative Scotland. The remainder of the week sees two phenomenal young Scots singers step into the Sidmouth spotlight.

This release will delight existing fans, and bring her music to an even wider audience. If you thought you’d heard the best of Iona Fyfe, think again; there’s every indication that Dark Turn of Mind begins a new, captivating chapter.

Part Four of our Best Folk Albums of 2018 includes Sam Sweeney, Siobhan Miller, Hannah Rarity, Iona Fyfe, Phillip Henry, Trembling Bells, Jackie Oates, Eddi Reader and more.

While Iona Fyfe’s tone is youthful and abundantly charming, the sense of assurance in her delivery is astonishing for someone of her tender years. “I’ll be very surprised indeed if Away From My Window doesn’t feature in the year’s best-of lists.”

Watch ‘Banks of Inverurie’, the new single and video from Aberdeenshire folksinger, Iona Fyfe. It features on her forthcoming new album ‘Away From My Window’ out 24th March 2018.

This weeks mix finds a strong Scottish contingent including two of Lau’s players with tracks from Aidan O’Rourke’s latest Imprint (E.P Series 2.0) and Martin Green’s Flit. Also included are two tracks from recently reviewed albums from Trail West and Iona Fyfe Band. Alongside these are some personal favourites that we’ve covered in the past as well as new offerings from The Driftwood Manor and Nick Jonah Davis’ House of …

East is an excellent taster of what Iona Fyfe and her band have to offer, and I can’t wait to hear more at one of the string of live dates still to come in Scotland.