Kim Carnie : Open Fund for Music Creators
Kim Carnie
Award-winning singer and composer, Kim Carnie, has featured on some of the UK’s biggest stages and across the world via film and computer-game soundtrack, from Netflix’s ‘Outlaw King’ and ‘Black Mirror’ to Hallmark’s ‘A Scottish Love Scheme’. 2022 welcomed the release of her debut solo album ‘And So We Gather’ winning the German Critics Choice award and was shortlisted for MG Alba’s Album of the Year. Drawn towards cross-cultural collaboration, Kim has worked on many international projects, including with Griot royalty Trio Da Kali(Mali), Seckou Keita(Senegal), Kalakan(Basque Country), Cedric Watson(US/Creole) and the prestigious Transatlantic Sessions tour with MD Jerry Douglas.
‘Buaidh nam Ban’: a studio album inspired by female bards
‘Buaidh nam Ban’ (The Influence of Women), celebrates the rich contributions of women to Scotland’s poetry. For centuries, women were prohibited from writing and composing, and were regularly punished, exiled and even buried face down if found doing so. ‘Buaidh nam Ban’ was a project written for the Blas Festival in the Scottish Highlands. For this project, I collected stories of female bards and their poetry that survived through our oral tradition. I reworked these stories and pieces of poetry and set them to new music. I contributed my own lyrics too. Alongside long-term collaborator and award-winning musician, Innes White, I will co-produce an album of these tracks which will feature musicians I regularly work and collaborate with as well as featured guests (to be announced on the lead up to release).