RUTH MORRIS is a versatile multi-instrumentalist, specialising in nyckelharpa, fiddle, whistle and piano. Based in Scotland, she currently plays with Firelight Trio, Gavin Marwick's Journeyman Project, The Galloway Agreement, The Village and The Road, Bellevue Rendezvous, and her ceilidh band Whirligig.

Recent work includes being an on-set musician on HBO series ‘Outlander’, and playing nyckelharpa on the soundtrack of the Netflix film ‘Outlaw King’. Freelance work also includes performances with Wendy Stewart, Mr McFall’s Chamber, the Scottish Ensemble, Rory McLeod, Red Dog Green Dog and Cantrip. Composing/ arranging for film and theatre includes Sky TV's 'Nation's Best Am Dram'.

Her music has taken her all over Europe, and even as far afield as Japan (with The Village and The Road), and in her travels she has added to her Scottish/ Irish repertoire a great collection of tunes and dances, particularly from Central France, Brittany, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. She works hard in her local community, organising and promoting events, leading workshops, and running music groups, independently and also through organisations such as Feis Rois and the YMI. She is an enthusiastic inspiration to a new generation of musicians.

GAVIN MARWICK is a fiddle player and composer from Edinburgh. As a performer he has played at hundreds of festivals, concerts, theatres and dances across Europe, North America, Asia, Australia and Africa.

Bands he’s worked with include his own JOURNEYMAN project; Iron Horse; Cantrip; UP IN THE AIR; CEILIDH MINOGUE; WHIRLIGIG; BELLEVUE RENDEZVOUS; THE GALLOWAY AGREEMENT and the FIRELIGHT TRIO. As a session musician he has performed/ recorded with, for example, The Unusual Suspects, Session A9, Wolfstone, Shooglenifty, Arz Nevez (BRZ), Malinky and Sogdiana (UZB) amongst others.

He is a prolific and enthusiastic composer of tunes and has been greatly inspired by musicians and cultures he has met on his travels. He has self-published some 200 of his tunes in a collection called ‘Horizons’ (assisted by Creative Scotland). Some of these tunes have been recorded by the likes of the Unusual Suspects, Old Blind Dogs and Marie Fielding. His orchestral folk suite ‘Impressions of Galloway’ was commissioned for a concert bringing together the Scottish Ensemble and the Journeyman project.

He has composed for TV, radio and theatre: THE VILLAGE AND THE ROAD (with Tom Pow and the Galloway Agreement); with the Traverse the music for Outlying Islands, Heritage and Faith Healer. He has also worked with NTS, and with Licketyspit (MOLLY WHUPPIE) and with Dogstar in THE TAILOR OF INVERNESS.

He is very active in the ceilidh scene and also teaching and educational work (Falkirk Fiddle Workshop, Feis Rois, Dundee Wighton). In his spare time he likes playing the fiddle and composing.

PHIL ALEXANDER was born in London. He studied at Goldsmiths College with John Tilbury, and has a PhD in Ethnomusicology. He is currently a British Academy Fellow at Edinburgh University, researching Jewish music in early twentieth-century Scotland. 

Besides leading Scotland’s top world-folk outfit Moishe’s Bagel, Phil has collaborated with a whole bunch of UK-based musicians, including the jazz tango trio Tangalgo, McFall’s Chamber, harpist Catriona McKay, folksingers Norma Waterson, Martin Carthy and their daughter Eliza, and many more. For several years he was a central part of the internationally-acclaimed Salsa Celtica, and his compositions have featured at London’s South Bank, Edinburgh’s Queen’s Hall and beyond. 

Phil has also written a book all about klezmer music in Berlin (Oxford University Press, 2021). According to Songlines, it is “vivid and fascinating”!