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Artist
Maeve Mackinnon
12+ albums
celticfolk
about
Maeve Mackinnon born 1981 in Glasgow) is a Scottish folk singer. She performs primarily in Scottish Gaelic, but also in English (note that there is another Gaelic singer who share the same name but has no recordings). Since the award winning success of her 2007 album Don't Sing Lovesongs, Mackinnon has proved herself one of the most distinctively gifted artists on today's UK folk scene- a reputation set to rise further with the release of her follow-up, Once Upon An Olive Branch. Singing in Gaelic and English, with a repertoire spanning traditional, contemporary and now original material, Mackinnon is renowned equally for the eloquent emotional connection she forges with every song, communicated in a bewitchingly honeyed, husky, yet vibrantly earthy voice, and her music's dynamic interplay of boldness and sensitivity. It's a combination that saw her voted Up and Coming Artist of the year at the 2007 Scots Trad Music Awards and Don't Sing Lovesongs showcased live as a Classic Album at Celtic Connections 2008. Mackinnon grew up amid a music-loving household in Glasgow, absorbing a rich, early diet of homegrown and international influences, from Bob Marley to The Laggan, Dick Gaughan to Bob Dylan, the Bothy Band to Victor Jara. "I learned early on to listen to words, and to songs that had some kind of social conscience", she recalls. Hence the new album's achingly poignant inclusion of Ewan MacColl's The Father's Song and of Maeve's first public foray into songwriting with th
