Playing to an enthusiastic and understanding audience in Moidart's Glenuig Hall, this is the five-fiddle-fronted band at its best. Rich harmony, aggressive rhythm, subtle dynamics and sensitive phrasing, on the solid bedrock of Marc Clements and Andy Thorburn on imaginative guitar and keys, this is moving music from Scotland's great ambassadors of the centuries-old Scots tradition. Changing direction as tightly as a flock of birds, their reels can take the breath away. *****
Norman Chalmers
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