Maggie MacInnes and her Band: The Kalokerinos Tapes

Award-winning Gaelic singer and musician Maggie MacInnes performs contemporary arrangements of songs from a previously unreleased archive recorded by her mother and great traditional singer from the island of Barra, Flora MacNeil MBE.

The archive of around 180 songs was recorded in the 1950s and 60s by an Australian folklorist, the late Dr James Kalokerinos, and includes many rare gems alongside some of the many traditional songs which Flora helped to popularise.With the assistance of Creative Scotland, Maggie has put together contemporary arrangements of some of these songs in a show which pays tribute to Flora and to other tradition-bearers who passed on the songs to her as she was growing up.Accompanying Maggie will be some of Scotland’s finest musicians including Wendy Weatherby (cello); Dan Brown (keyboards); Alex Palmer (percussion), Ailis Sutherland (pipes, whistle and flute) and Maggie’s son, Calum Park (guitar, fiddle and backing vocals).The show was first performed at Glasgow's Celtic Connections Festival in January 2026 to great acclaim.

Since then Maggie has released an album of the songs from the show, Uisegan Bharraigh (Barra Skylarks), and recently toured in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.