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

To watch, visit www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture