Iain Carnegie | id

- Iain is from an Island off the north west coast of Scotland called Lewis. - He currently lives near Glasgow. - He recently appeared on the BBC’s Transatlantic Sessions singing Broken Off Car Door, A Lewis Summer and Fire in my Hands alongside the likes of Bela Fleck, Danny Thompson and Jerry Douglas. - He has released 4 albums on his own label: Empty Beer Bottles and Peatfire Smoke (2004), Skimming Stones…Sinking Boats (2008), Trust the Sea to Guide me (2010), Haunted Bird with the poet/storyteller Daibhidh Martin (2011) - He can play a number of instruments including various...

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