Julie Fowlis

Looking for the Thread offers a captivating meeting of different but kindred musical minds of Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart, and Mary Chapin Carpenter. All three can be proud of their collaboration; we can but hope for a sequel.

Six years after their eponymous debut, Julie Fowlis, Éamon Doorley, Zoë Conway, and John Mc Intyre return with Allt Vol. II: Cuimhne, an album harmonious in every aspect: magnificent vocals, classy musicianship, and absorbing airy arrangements.

Julie Fowlis & Karine Polwart are to collaborate on a new album with Mary Chapin Carpenter.  Looking For The Thread is out on January 24th 2025 with Thirty Tigers worldwide, ahead of which they have shared a new single titled ‘Hold Everything’.

Featuring Julie Fowlis, Ewen Henderson, the late Simon Emmerson, and more, the musicianship across Highlands is consistently first-rate, and every song is a complete delight. It’s many sublime moments more than warrants listening to, in or out of the Lush Spa.

Julie Fowlis delivered a compelling and entertaining Celtic Connections set, supported by Duncan Chisholm, Éamon Doorley, Innes White, Alice Allen, Patsy Reid and Binneas, a Gaelic harmony collective.

In ‘Pilgrimage for a Pint’, a new BBC Radio 4 documentary on Christmas Eve, Folk musicians Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart set out on a journey to the most remote pub in mainland Britain – The Old Forge in Inverie.

Released today, Who Is This? is the stunning new single from Scottish folk singer and multi-instrumentalist Julie Fowlis, co-written with nature writer and best-selling author Robert Macfarlane – also featuring Donald Shaw, Duncan Chisholm and Clockwork Sessions.

Some of Scotland’s top traditional musicians, including Kim Carnie, Gary Innes & Ewen Henderson, Hecla, Staran, Norrie MacIver, Megan Henderson, Mary Ann Kennedy, Paul McKenna, Julie Fowlis, and Sian, will be performing at this year’s Blas Festival, celebrating Gaelic music and culture.

There was a definite buzz around RURA’s Celtic Connections appearance and their collaborative EP launch gig featuring an extended band and guests: Duncan Chisholm, Julie Fowlis, Hannah Rarity, Ross Ainslie and Michael McGoldrick. It couldn’t have been better.

Scottish folk singer Julie Fowlis has released a digital EP featuring songs she composed to accompany the Source To Sea podcast series in which Lee Craigie and Jenny Graham travel the length of three major Scottish rivers (The River Dee, River Tay and River Clyde).

A new film featuring music inspired by the wild and remote landscapes of Scotland is set to premiere online at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe alongside incredible live performances from Scottish composer and percussionist Oliver Cox, with award-winning Gaelic vocalist Julie Fowlis.

On Tuesday 27 April 2021 Spell Songs will perform a unique live streamed concert to raise funds for the Natural History Museum’s Urban Nature Project. We chat to Jackie Morris, Karine Polwart, Seckou Keita, Julie Fowlis, Kris Drever, Jim Molyneux, Rachel Newton and Beth Porter as well as Lauren Hyams, Natural History Museum’s Head of Garden Activities.