Biography
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Years Active
2017 – present (8 years)
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Members
- Aileen Reid (2017 – present)
- Fiona MacAskill (2017 – present)
- Jenn Butterworth (2017 – present)
- Laura Wilkie (2017 – present)
- Laura-Beth Salter (2017 – present)
Kinnaris Quintet is a Scottish folk band based in Glasgow. Founded in 2017, the band plays music influenced by Scottish and Irish traditional music, bluegrass and classical. The group takes its name from the south-east Asian mythological creature, the Kinnaris, renowned for its dance, song and poetry. In 2019 the band won the Belhaven Bursary for Innovation in Scottish Music.
Featuring three fiddles, mandolin and guitar, the band comprises Jenn Butterworth (guitar), Aileen Reid (formerly Aileen Reid Gobbi) (five-string fiddle), Fiona MacAskill (fiddle), Laura-Beth Salter (mandolin), and Laura Wilkie (fiddle). In 2017, Reid invited Wilkie, MacAskill, Salter and Butterworth to her flat to jam and they agreed to form the group. In 2017, Salter and Butterworth released an album together, Bound, under their own names.
In 2018, Kinnaris Quintet released their debut album, "Free One". The album was long-listed for the 2019 Scottish Album of the Year Award.
The band's second album "This Too" was released in 2022.
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