Sara Fjeldvær is a songwriter, musician and singer from Norway who weaves stories in song that provoke, challenge and comfort in equal measure. Part jazz, part folk with a flash of pop and aged like a vintage wine, her voice conveys feeling as she explores her place in the world, and its place in her. Love, loneliness and identity traverse each of her two solo albums, a slew of EPs and singles, and her newest collaboration which has her looking at music in other ways. Ahead of her debut live UK show in Glasgow on Monday, October 21, she talks to Shaun Milne about her inspirations, feelings and music and she prepares to share her work to an international audience that should get ready to pay attention to one of the most exciting emerging singers of the year so far.

Show Notes

• Live, Monday October 21, Glasgow's Old Toll Bar
• Sara Fjeldvær Official website
• Bandcamp
• Spotify
• VierLive replay

The supremely talented contemporary harpist Pippa Reid-Foster discusses her stunning new album ‘Undercurrents’ which is out on September 6 with Shaun Milne in Episode 15 of the Good Stuff in Between podcast.

She has a brilliant story of overcoming adversity after fearing her career would come to an end following a terrible accident which saw her ability to play left hanging in the balance but for the determination and expertise of a surgeon and NHS to save her talents.

Her recovery and focus has come with the reward of musical legends including Philip Glass, Max Richter and Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres endorsing the use of their music in her new works to stand proudly alongside her original compositions which, as the album title suggests, dives deep into topics around water including the sea, wild swimming, nature and climate crisis to name a few.

Hailing from Helensburgh and born with a love for sailing, she is also working on an exciting new project collaborating with an international group of artists of all disciplines following a recent sea faring adventure with the The Excelsior Trust that will see them tour around Norway, the Faroe Islands and other music loving nations next year.

She has just released her first single from the forthcoming album with ‘Turning Tides’ where she shares the rhythms and waves of her secret sanctuary from life’s challenges in the hope it helps bring calm to others. She will also appear in new work from the astonishingly talented singer, songwriter and composer Siobhan Wilson.

Chris Giubarelli sold his family business to chase a dream of playing music for a living as he does around the bars of Inverness and performing in a choir. It's a path that brought him to Belladrum where, at the heart of the festival, he chatted to Shaun Milne about his transformation from selling fish suppers to entertaining people as the Highland Folk Hero.