Ross Ainslie And Ali Hutton have shared their video for Birds, taken from their Symbiosis II album which is in the Scots Trad Music Awards shortlist for Best Album this year. The video was created by Somhairle MacDonald.
Watch Ross Ainslie & Ali Hutton in a ten-piece collective performing four tracks from their latest album Symbiosis II plus listen to Ross Ainslie’s new single with Runrig guitarist Malcolm Jones called Hope in the Chaos.
A bespoke tartan carpet transformed Glasgow’s Buchanan Street today, Wednesday 16th May, to unveil the headliners of this year’s Piping Live! Glasgow International Piping Festival and The World Pipe Band Championships, which both return to the city 13 – 19 August 2018.
Ross Ainslie & Ali Hutton have yet again proven themselves to be not only masters of Scottish traditional music but at the very forefront of the movement that continues to breathe new life into that music, inspiring the next generation. Symbiosis was beguiling, Symbiosis II is utterly hypnotic.
Following on from the success of their debut album ‘Symbiosis’ Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton will release their second album ‘Symbiosis II’ this spring (20 April). Take a listen to the track Birds.
The most arresting and impressive aspects of Sanctuary are not the message and the direction the music is coming from – it’s the music itself. The writing and musicianship shine in what is easily Ross Ainslie’s most impressive album so far.
Today’s Tune of the Day finds mischief afoot during this session from Tim Edey and some of Scotland’s finest musicians – Charlie Mckerron, Ross Ainslie and Marc Clement.
Symbiosis sees Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton bring their musical intuition and unity to the studio in a collection of tune sets that expertly brings their combined skills as composers, multi-instrumentalists, and arrangers to an eager audience.
Our Song of the Day comes from Ross Ainslie & Jarlath Henderson, accompanied by Ali Hutton on guitar. The set begins with the beautiful The Mountain Streams Where The Moorcock Crows and ends on a fantastic, breath-taking finale.
This year’s MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards shortlist is announced and voting is now open to the public. We’ve put together a preview of many of the nominations which you can listen to here.
