Burd Ellen

Burd Ellen

Experimental folk duo Burd Ellen return to Bishops House with a new, live audio-visual work, exclusive to this Sensoria programme.

Burd Ellen are twice Guardian Folk Album of the Year listees, 2020 & 2022. Their latest album, A Tarot Of The Greenwood, is an enveloping journey through the Major Arcana that refreshes and relocates traditional song in a new conceptual frame.

MacGillivray
MacGillivray is a poet and musician. Her music has appeared on BBC Radio 3 Late Junction and had coverage in the Wire Music Magazine, the Quietus and the Guardian for film soundtracks 'The Whalebone Box', 'Swandown' (Channel 4/Britdoc, 2012) and 'By Our Selves' (in which she appeared opposite Toby Jones) all by British director Andrew Kötting. She has performed internationally with The Fall, Arlo Guthrie, Arthur Brown, Shirley Collins, Michael Moorcock, Vic Godard, Toby Jones, Alan Moore, Jem Finer (The Pogues), Current 93, Gallon Drunk, Iain Sinclair, Trembling Bells, The Incredible String Band, Thurston Moore, and Band of Susans. She was nominated as a PRS/Help Musicians Scottish Performer of the Year in 2017 and received a Paul Hamlyn Composer Award in 2020.