Orkney-based folk duo Saltfishforty are set to bring their Celtic verve to Fort William this month when they perform a one-off show at Ben Nevis Distillery.
Consisting of fiddler and viola player Douglas Montgomery and multiinstrumentalist and singer Brian Cromarty, the band infuses traditional Scottish folk styles with a clear influence of blues and jazz.
Their newest album, Bere, is named after a form of six-figure barley that is unique to Orkney. Its songs are rich with the island’s history – their song the Odin Stone recalls the day Orkney’s famous holed monolith was destroyed in an act of vandalism, and the Jack Snipe tells the tale of the Orkney schooner Jack Snipe’s fate in 1907 when it vanished without a trace.