Welcome to The Scotsman Sessions

With performing arts activity curtailed for the foreseeable future, we are commissioning a series of short video performances from artists all around the country and releasing them on scotsman.com, with introductions by our critics.

Highlights so far include

KT Tunstall performing her new song, Anything At All, from her home in Topanga Canyon, Los Angeles

Scotland’s Makar Jackie Kay reading two lockdown poems, Still and Mask

Tam Dean Burn tackling the subject of Scotland’s salmon farming industry in an excerpt from his show Aquaculture Flagshipwreck

Scottish Chamber Orchestra cellist

Su-a Lee playing Dvořák’s Songs My Mother Taught Me in a forest near Grantown-on-spey

A locked-down C Duncan performing the aptly titled Stuck Here With You from his living room in Helensburgh

Johnny Lynch, aka Pictish Trail, playing an acoustic version of his single Double-sided from his studio on the Isle of Eigg

Actors Sean Hay and Keith Fleming performing a scene from Grid Iron’s new show, Doppler

The Maxwell Quartet playing a jig & reel combo from a fishing boat perched on top of a hill in Perthshire