Top Floor Taivers are a folk band from Glasgow. Featuring vocalist and ukulele player Claire Hastings (Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2015), fiddler Gráinne Brady, Heather Downie on clarsach and Aidan Moodie on guitar, they have impressed audiences with their unique arrangements and stunning harmonies. Their debut album ‘A Delicate Game’ showcases a variety of styles. From traditional ballads to contemporary covers, Top Floor Taivers deftly tell a story through both words and instrumentation, no matter what its origin. The band have toured throughout the UK and featured in many festival line-ups, and were recently well received in Germany.

 “These four are incredibly talented” Folk Radio UK “A flair for arrangement” Northern Sky Magazine 

https://www.facebook.com/TopFloorTaivers/ 

Supported by Brian Devlin Quality Butcher, Dollar

Hailed as a rising star by the magazine International Piano, Scottish pianist Christina Lawrie made her debut in 2009 with the RSNO in the Caird Hall. After studying in Glasgow, Chetham's and Trinity College Cambridge, Christina has been an active concert pianist in the UK and abroad. Winner of many prizes, her debut at London’s world-renowned Wigmore Hall was praised by Musical Opinion magazine for its “astute intelligence and warmth of spirit”. Christina adores chamber and song repertoire. She collaborates regularly with artists including her violinist husband Marcus Barcham Stevens and baritone Stephen Varcoe. The duo recently recorded a CD of music by Grieg, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev. Released in August 2018, it has received excellent reviews. "Christina Lawrie is a young pianist of formidable intellect and boundless technique...Fantastic playing". The Observer "Christina Lawrie is a wholly natural musician.". Classical Source 

http://www.christinalawrie.co.uk/

Supported by The Grouse & Claret, Kinross

Formed in 2005 and based in Edinburgh, the Roxburgh are quartet in residence at the city’s beautiful Lauriston Hall. Their core repertoire includes the late Schubert quartets, the German Romantics, the great French masterworks and, notably, Bartok’s First Quartet and Tan Dun’s Eight Colours for String Quartet. In 2012 the quartet performed Bach’s The Art of Fugue in the lunchtime concert series of both Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities, with harpsichordists John Kitchen and Tom Wilkinson. This experience inspired the quartet to explore even earlier music by adding Purcell to their repertoire.

In 2017, Roxburgh celebrated their 12th year with a series of concerts at Lauriston Hall followed by a concert in the Glasgow University lunchtime concert series and a very happy return tour of Mid Argyll. “Inspired music played with complete control, imagination and deep insight.” Courier

http://www.roxburghquartet.com/

Supported by Cafe des Fleurs, Dollar