"Hypnotic and Elemental and Brilliant!"

- Adam Walton, BBC Introducing (latest release, from new album Fool's Journey/TAITH)

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Ailsa Mair creates elemental tapestries from her strings, voice and loop pedal -experimental folk offerings on the spectrum of grief and joy, woven with wild nature, magic and threads of Welsh language.  She sings and plays at the same time (with cello & viola da gamba), sharing original songs, traditional Welsh folk arrangements and live improvisations from the heart with a truly unique voice.

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Ailsa has collaborated abundantly with many well known artists - musicians, storytellers, dancers, aerialists and illustrators - in performance and in session work. She has also worked extensively in theatre, including with the Royal Shakespeare Company (Cymbeline, 2023 + 2016/17).

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Ailsa is also a storyteller, and has just performed hers and Deb Winter's newly commissioned show Secrets & Silences at Beyond the Border International Storytelling Festival, after co-winning the Gwobr Esyllt Award from Welsh Women's Storytelling collective Chwedl.

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From 2017-2021 Ailsa was one half of Tinc y Tannau, a trailblazing bass viol and voice duo with the late & extraordinary Sianed Jones.  

Their music can be found HERE.

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Ailsa has also released several solo EPS of her own songs and is recording more this year.  Find her work HERE.

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Please get in touch if you would like to book Ailsa for a solo show, collaboration, or session.  Ailsa also teaches the art of embodied vocal improvisation.  Contact her for details.

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"Hypnotic and Elemental and Brilliant"- Adam Walton, BBC Introducing

 

"If Steve Reich had written a soundtrack for the Canterbury tales....well it probably wouldn't have been as much fun as this. But it kind of makes me think of that. Very cool."

- listener, BBC Introducing (on 'FOOL', Feb 10th 2024)

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"You sound like a full-grown fairy and my Mum loves you"

- fan

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"Beautiful Cello Witch"

- fan