A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan
A Scottish Arts & Culture Podcast with Nicola Meighan
A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan
Esther Swift at the East Neuk Festival
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Recorded at the East Neuk Festival in Fife
This week, I’m hearing from one of our most gorgeous, and inventive musicians, who’s a composer, harpist, singer, songwriter and - as it turns out - a pretty fierce conductor too.
Esther Swift is at Edinburgh International Book Festival tonight (August 15th) - in a collaboration with Jackie Kay - so we talked about that, and Esther’s glorious album Expectations of a Lifetime…
But we met after her superb Zulu Voyage community performance at this year’s East Neuk Festival in Fife - which told the story of a fishing boat; its lives, and loves, and journeys - and so we started with that…