Hannah Read

Hannah Read’s music straddles both sides of the Atlantic. She is a versatile collaborator and forges her own singular musical landscape that draws from American and Scottish folk traditions as well as from contemporary indie-pop and rock. An award-winning fiddler, guitarist, singer and composer, Hannah leads her own band and is an in-demand musician on both sides of the Atlantic.

Hannah&#39;s forthcoming album The Fungi Sessions Vol. 1 was a commission from Edinburgh University - an album of fungi-inspired instrumental compositions, which will be released on October 20th, 2023. Throughout the album, Hannah plays fiddle, electric &amp; acoustic guitar, and is joined by a talented cast of musicians including <a href="spotify:artist:0v5kYF6D2YsoToYXmEUhYk" data-name="Michael Starkey">Michael Starkey</a> on clawhammer banjo &amp; guitar, <a href="spotify:artist:3bcLBxvaI7GsBzGp3WHnwQ" data-name="Nickel Creek">Nickel Creek</a>&#39;s <a href="spotify:artist:3RrojqFzLBxlTfW6QQVtN1" data-name="Jeff Picker">Jeff Picker</a> on upright bass and sound design, mixed and mastered by <a href="spotify:artist:7dHt18RStzUIgrEqEX2l9V" data-name="Charles Van Kirk">Charles Van Kirk</a>.

This new record follows her critically acclaimed solo album, <a href="spotify:album:1b6Q0enFSwYs4FiOrbgpEQ" data-name="Way Out I&#39;ll Wander">Way Out I&#39;ll Wander</a> (feat. <a href="spotify:artist:6nFBonVf7Lqaj05R0v5VGJ" data-name="Sarah Jarosz">Sarah Jarosz</a> &amp; <a href="spotify:artist:3y6Xgu4ghSkuPM8HVHijCv" data-name="Jefferson Hamer">Jefferson Hamer</a>) Appalachian old-time duo album with <a href="spotify:artist:0v5kYF6D2YsoToYXmEUhYk" data-name="Michael Starkey">Michael Starkey</a>, <a href="spotify:album:7sPW46brDG75E0xmSGOrbc" data-name="Cross the Rolling Water">Cross the Rolling Water</a>, and the BBC Folk Award winning album <a href="spotify:artist:7dbtBDfoF6TJAzQlsOxTTU" data-name="Songs Of Separation">Songs Of Separation</a> (feat. <a href="spotify:artist:3ZSRiAJKs42ymp2KYA80Qh" data-name="Eliza Carthy">Eliza Carthy</a> &amp; <a href="spotify:artist:5WS3dnCZR6MuN6m3dTMuwF" data-name="Karine Polwart">Karine Polwart</a>).

Equally at home improvising on fiddle, playing Appalachian old-time music or delivering finely wrought original songs, she is an artist who can’t be pinned down to one continent, one city, one project, one mode of expression.