Seán Gray Trio with Iona Lane

Glasgow-based Ayrshire native Seán Gray is already firmly established in the international folk community, as a session player, as a past member of the award-winning Paul McKenna Band, and the recipient of a prestigious Celtic Connections New Voices composing commission, but it may be that he’s finally found his niche. Gray thinks for a minute and laughs.

“Yes, I would say that there is no one doing this. I can tell you for definite that there is no one who has taken the lyrics from a living poet to make an album about Ayrshire mining communities in Lallans Scots.”