Jez Lowe is one of northern England's finest singer-songwriters. In addition to being featured on seven solo albums and three albums by Lowe's band, the Bad Pennys, Lowe's songs have been featured on albums by a lengthy list of performers including Fairport Convention, the Tannahill Weavers, the Black Family and Gordon Bok.

Findlay Napier is best known for his work with award winning Celtic group Back of the Moon.
Percussion powerhouse Paul Jennings- formerly of Croft No.5 and Old Blind Dogs provides the Bar Room Mountaineers with a solid rhythmic foundation. Gillian Frame, the inaugural winner of the Young Scottish Traditional Musician of the Year Award, shares her vocal and fiddling talents while Douglas Millar’s fluid lines are the ivory icing on a piano cake!

Cara is rooted in Irish and Scottish traditional music, but with ambitions to create a new and unique sound. Each of the five musicians has made a name for themselves at home and abroad through their involvement in various projects and got together in this line-up to create the music of their dreams.

Cantrip is a quartet Scottish traditional musicians that positively crackles with energy. The name itself, which is an Old Scots word meaning a charm, magic spell or piece of mischief, aptly evokes both the unexpected twists and turns in their musical arrangements and the inherent and compelling potency of their native Scottish traditions.