Maggie MacInnes and her Band - The Kalokerinos Tapes

Award winning Gaelic singer and musician, Maggie MacInnes, will be performing contemporary arrangements of songs from a previously unreleased archive recorded by her mother, the great traditional singer from the island of Barra, Flora MacNeil MBE. The archive of around 180 songs was recorded in the 1950s and 60s by an Australian folklorist, the late Dr James Kalokerinos, and includes many rare gems alongside some of the many traditional songs which Flora helped make popular today. With the assistance of Creative Scotland, Maggie and her band have put together contemporary arrangements of some of these songs in a show which pays tribute to Flora and to other tradition bearers who passed on the songs to her as she was growing up. The show was first performed at Glasgow's Celtic Connections Festival in January 2026 to great acclaim. Since then, Maggie has released an album of the songs from the show called "Uisegan Bharraigh" (Barra Skylarks) and recently toured in the highlands and islands of Scotland. Accompanying Maggie will be some of Scotland’s finest musicians including Ailis Sutherland (Pipes, Whistle and flute); Wendy Weatherby(cello); Dan Brown(keyboards); Calum Park (Guitar, fiddle and backing vocals) and Alex Palmer (percussion)