Stay Strong

The Skye based musician and composer Blair Douglas releases his fifth studio album 2 June. Internationally acclaimed, with musical compositions that have resonated across the globe and across the genres, Blair is still, in many ways, Gaelic culture’s best kept secret. He gives rare public performances in his own right, but over the years has been part of some of the most significant musical entities to come out of the Scottish Gaidhealtachd. He was a founder member of Runrig and a member of Gaelic ‘Supergroups’ MacTalla and Cliar.
 Throughout his career Blair has been a cartographer of the tradition and has put down a marker wherever the musical diaspora takes root. As an accordionist he is strongly influenced by both his own rich Gaelic instrumental heritage and Cajun music culture – two strands of musical and cultural traditions closely linked, in Blair’s view.

Stay Strong/ Bithibh Laidir / Rester Fort  is a mainly song based album featuring a variety of guest vocalists such as Michael Mara, Eddi Reader, Cookie Rankin, Kathleen McInnes and Runrig’s Bruce Guthro and Rory Macdonald.