Skerryvore

Skerryvore play The Fire Station in Sunderland city centre on Tuesday 24 November, performing their Beautiful Mistakes album live. It's a Glasgow band, and they've spent the last fifteen years taking contemporary Scottish traditional music to audiences worldwide.

Their sound sits at a crossroads: folk, trad, rock and Americana, all held together by fiddle, accordions, pipes and whistles. They've picked up the BBC Scottish 'Live Act of the Year' twice, in 2011 and again in 2016, and the eight members come from different regions of Scotland, with the group hailing from the remote Isle of Tiree. That mix of backgrounds comes through in the music, which reflects the different personalities and upbringings of the people on stage.

They've marked their milestones with a fair bit of ambition. In 2015, they celebrated their tenth birthday by launching their own 6,000-capacity 'Decade' festival, and in 2020, their fifteenth-anniversary event was due to be held against the backdrop of Inveraray Castle. During the pandemic, their home-recorded single 'Everyday Heroes' reached number one in the official Scottish charts and raised thousands of pounds for NHS staff charities.

On the night, they'll be playing Beautiful Mistakes in full. Tickets start from £12, which includes the booking fee, and the show starts at 8:00pm at The Fire Station in the city centre.