Meet the award-winning duo Chris Stout and Catriona McKay for a conversation about three decades of musical collaboration, creativity and the meeting of Scottish folk traditions and contemporary musical expression.

This award winning duo have taken these most traditional of Scottish instruments and catapulted them into the contemporary world of music making.

A 30 year long telepathy sees this remarkable duo weave their way seamlessly between glorious soundscapes and music of breathtaking simplicity.

Rooted in tradition yet unconfined by its limits, their work has earned global recognition, critical acclaim and built lasting partnerships with musical kindred spirits around the world.

There brand of contemporary folk music has seen them grace the worlds stages with orchestras such as the BBC Concert Orchestra, The Trondheim Symphony and the Moscow City Symphony.

The intense and rugged coastal scenery and the dramatic seas that surround their respective origins. Fair Isle, the most remote of the Shetland Islands and Dundee are ever-present in this unique and treasured duo sound.

Virtuosic and cinematic, Chris and Catriona’s music charts a rhythmic and harmonic terrain that is all their own. The result is a dynamic and intrepidly adventurous sound that transcends genre yet remains immovably tethered to place.