Orcadian fiddle and mandolin player Graham Rorie is an award-winning folk musician based in Glasgow. A finalist in the 2021 BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year and graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotlands Traditional Music Degree, Graham has been making a name for himself as a performer, composer, session musician and producer.
While still in the early stages of his career, Graham has gained a wealth of performance experience appearing at festivals including Glasgows Celtic Connections, Celtic Colours (Canada), Festival Interceltique de Lorient (France) and Celtica Valle DAosta (Italy).
As a founding member of quartet Gnoss, Graham has picked up his second Danny Kyle Award at Celtic Connections, reached the Semi-Finals of the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award and been nominated for Up and Coming Artist of the Year at the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards in 2017. Gnoss released their latest album Drawn From Deep Water in April 2019 and it was shortlisted for Album of the Year at the same Scots Trad Awards that year.
In his latest project, Graham brought together a selection of Glasgow based musicians to present a suite of newly-composed music inspired by his fellow Orcadians who travelled to northern Canada to work for the Hudsons Bay Company during the 18th and 19th centuries. The premier of this new work took place at Celtic Connections 2020, with a sold-out headline show incorporating collaborations with Quebecs Le Vent Du Nord. The Orcadians of Hudson Bay was nominated for Original Work of the Year at the Scots Trad Music Awards and will be released in album form in Spring 2021.
An in-demand session musician, Graham has featured on fiddle and mandolin for albums by artists including the Red Hot Chilli Pipers Dougie McCance, BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award 2017 winners Josie Duncan and Pablo Lafuente, and 2018 MG Alba Scots Singer of the Year Iona Fyfe.
