Kim Carnie Tours A’ Chailleach Across the UK

To celebrate the release of her second album, A’ Chailleach, Kim Carnie is set to take her trio on tour across the UK this May for the third and final leg of the release. The album - taking its rightful place at the top of The Scotsman’s top five albums of the year - will be performed alongside long-term collaborators Innes White and Megan Henderson (Breabach).

Her ‘velvet-voiced authority’ (The Scotsman), is widely recognised as the voice of one of Scotland’s leading bands, Mànran. Carnie moves fluidly between worlds: festival main stages, experimental collaborations, and screen soundtracks. Her voice has surfaced everywhere from Netflix’s Outlaw King to Black Mirror, carrying a rare ability to feel both ancient and immediate.

Collaboration sits at the core of her practice; from work with Malian griot supergroup Trio Da Kali to kora innovators Seckou Keita and Kadialy Kouyate, and American folk artist Dirk Powell. Carnie’s music thrives in the friction between cultures. On home ground and beyond, she has also shared stages with Carlene Carter, Lindsay Lou, and Joshua Burnside, touring with the Transatlantic Sessions under MD and 16-time Grammy winner Jerry Douglas.

A two-time Gaelic Singer of the Year (2021, 2025), she is equally in demand as a composer, with commissions spanning festivals, film, and game soundtracks. Her work on independent film ‘Kim Carnie: Out Loud’ has received over 30 awards at film festivals worldwide, including ‘Best Song in a Film’ at the Milan Independent Film Awards.

Her debut solo album And So We Gather, produced by Donald Shaw, marked her as a singular voice in contemporary folk. Its follow-up, A’ Chailleach, pushes further—darker, bolder - a show not to be missed.

May 2026 tour dates:

• 03/05 EDINBURGH - Tradfest
• 21/05 STIRLING - Tolbooth
• 22/05 BRAEMAR - St. Margaret’s Braemar
• 23/05 COMRIE - Comrie Community Centre
• 24/05 PAISLEY - Paisley Arts Centre
• 25/05 EVESHAM - The Fleece Inn
• 26/05 SHOREHAM-BY-SEA - Ropetackle
• 27/05 NOTTINGHAM - Lakeside Arts
• 28/05 LONDON - Kings Place
• 29/05 SHEFFIELD - The Greystones
• 30/05 INVERNESS - The Gatherin

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