Hannah Rarity

In 2018, she was the winner of the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician award, and her debut album Neath the Gloaming Star was nominated for Album of the Year at the Scots Trad Music Awards in 2019.

[1] She joined the National Youth Choir of Scotland at the age of eight, where she developed a favouring of traditional music.

[1] In 2015, she was invited by Phil Cunningham, the artistic director of the traditional music department at the Royal Conservatoire, and Joanie Madden, to tour with Cherish the Ladies, touring internationally with them for two years while completing her studies.

[6] The album was self-published due to the lack of publishing labels in Scotland and the prevalence of musicians having success with crowdfunding.

[2] In 2021, she was co-musical director of the Opening Concert 'Neath the Gloaming Star' at Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow.