Lauren MacColl is a Scottish

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player from

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. She has released three solo albums as well as a duet album with flute player Calum Stewart. MacColl is a member of the fiddle quartet

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and contemporary folk band Salt House.

Discography

Solo albums

*''When Leaves Fall'' (2007) *''Strewn With Ribbons'' (2009) *''The Seer'' (2017) *''Landskein'' (2020) *''Haar'' (2023)

With Heal & Harrow

*''Heal & Harrow'' (2022)

With Calum Stewart

*''Wooden Flute & Fiddle'' (2012)

With RANT

*''RANT'' (2014) *''Reverie'' (2016) *''The Portage'' (2019)

With Salt House

*''Lay Your Dark Low'' (2013) *''Undersong'' (2018) *''Huam'' (2020) *''Working for Zeus (EP)'' (2021)

Awards

BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award The BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award is an annual competition for young folk musicians in the United Kingdom. It was first awarded in 1988 as the Young Tradition Award, taking its present name in 1998. Recent winners of the award include Maddie Mo ...

2004 *

MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards The Scots Trad Music Awards or Na Trads were founded in 2003 by Simon Thoumire to celebrate Scotland's traditional music in all its forms and create a high profile opportunity to bring the music and music industry into the spotlight of media and ...

2009 - "Instrumentalist of the Year"

References

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* Living people Scottish folk musicians 21st-century Scottish fiddlers Music of Scotland 21st-century Scottish violinists Scottish women violinists Scottish women fiddlers Year of birth missing (living people) British women folk musicians {{Scotland-musician-stub