Phamie left home to study in Glasgow at the age of 17 and soon after was one of the first solo artists to win a 'Danny award' in Glasgow's Celtic Connections festival which resulted in Phamie's second commission as a composer and wrote Lammermuir featuring Alasdair Fraser on fiddle, Eric Rigler on uilleann pipes, Mairi Campbell singing and other Celtic music stars.
She also performed centre stage in the main auditorium at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall opening for Seaumus Heaney and Liam O Flynn and used this opportunity to sing in public for the first time to a full house without any official training on her voice.
Lammermuir later became Phamie's second album which she licensed at that time from Wildfire Records and Publishing to Greentrax Ltd. Twenty years later, to the very day of the premiere, and in the same building at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall (main auditorium) Phamie performed Lammermuir once again, this time in its orchestrated version with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) featuring again soloists Mairi Campbell singing, Alasdair Fraser on fiddle, Jarlath Henderson on uilleann pipes and was conducted by America's, Teddy Abrams.
In between the year 2000 and 2025 (leading up to the pandemic), Phamie represented herself performing, sometimes with a backing band, in concert halls, festivals, and special occasions around Europe, North and South America, China and travelled extensively with her music to various countries.
Phamie has also taken the opportunity to collaborate with many leading artists such as Carlos Nuñez in Spain, Kepa Junkera from Bilbao, Band of Horses, Marisa Monte, Philip Glass, Ashley MacIsaac and many more and performed on The Carnegie Hall, in NYC alongside Ray Davies and Sufjan Stevens and others.
In 2023 she released her 11th solo album entitled Dancing Hands Remastered featuring some of the best Celtic and world music musicians from Scotland and abroad.
In 2024 she branched out into exploring new skills as an actor and found herself on set filming for a new TV series and movie that will be released in 2025 globally starring Colin Firth and others.
[4] She has been invited as a headlining entertainer to perform around Europe, United Kingdom, North and South America (Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay), Canada, and China.
Phamie has performed around the world on such occasions as the Opening of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh in July 2011,[6] where Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom was present, albeit not directly while Phamie performed; the Closing Ceremony of the London Olympics 2012 in Scotland House, Pall Mall, London, commissioned by the Scottish Government and Creative Scotland.
Phamie has worked and collaborated with many international artists such as Band of Horses (USA), Carlos Núñez (Spain), Marisa Monte (Brasil), Ashley MacIsaac (Canada), and Alan Stivell (France), Kepa Junkera (Bilbao) and more.
[11] In 2010 Phamie organised benefit concert 'A Cry Out for Chile', with the money raised going to the Chilean Red Cross and the Victor Jara Society to help victims of the earth quake and tsunami there.