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‘Law has a ravishing voice… her seamless melding of the traditional with the modern is both engaging and entrancing…’
Kirsty Law is an innovative Scots songmaker and singer based in Edinburgh. From a background learning from some of Scotland and Ireland’s great tradition bearerers such as Sheila Stewart, Cathal MacConnell, Sheena Wellington and Margaret Bennett, she has gone on to develop her own strong storytelling voice.
Working primarily in Scots language, Law pairs bold contemporary narratives and sounds with traditional material, with a special interest in expressing that which previously in the tradition has gone unsung - sensitive stories of queer love, unashamed female sexuality - and continuing that which she feels the tradition does best - salving some of life's darkest subjects, providing a voice for the voiceless.
Kirsty is accepting bookings for 2027
‘Ships In The Forest’ the new solo album out 2027
This is Law’s first entirely solo album, and her most daringly vulnerable work to date. Standing on the shoulders of her great teachers and tradition bearers that passed her their craft, performers who carried a tradition and a whole room on just their voice. Law goes on a journey exploring themes of grief, lonliness, nature, queerness and play, in work that is both traditional and original and entirely in her mother tongue , the Scots language.
'...weaves a dexterous path between the animated vocal mannerisms of Ani Di Franco and the wide open instrumentation of early Massive Attack' Acoustic Magazine
'...spellbinding.' Max Reinhardt BBC Radio 3 Late Junction
'Beautiful and feisty... In Kirsty Law, it's a joy to hear a young singer and writer in Scots with such welcoming, earthy and conversational character to her singing and songs. Better still, she's complimenting traditional material with her own writing and research, and with a distinctive sense of theatre... a musician doing things her own way.' Karine Polwart
'a sumptuous album' Ian Rankin
'Quite something...haunting stuff.' Janice Forsyth BBC Radio Scotland
‘…it’s like a step change, it’s like what happened in the sixties to English folk when singers started to sing with their own voice rather than dedicating their voice to sounding traditional…one to watch out for.’ Soho Radio
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