Lauded by the Herald on tour last spring, promoting new album Thursday Night in the Caley, as "a collective force that does indeed blaze but can also smoulder, glow and positively scorch," the latest incarnation of top Scottish band Blazin' Fiddles unites the suitably incendiary talents of Shetland fiddler Jenna Reid and multi-instrumentalist Anna Massie with four founder members. Ranging between Highland-style musical berserking and exquisitely arrayed orchestration, they'll leave you blissfully shaken and stirred.

Putting a fresh contemporary spin on Catalan folk music's rich diversity of influences, Sol i Serena play some 20 instruments - many distinctive to the region - between six members, fronted by the stirring vocals of Marta Rius.

At the heart of the festival is the vibrant folk and traditional music scene, with some of the UK and Ireland’s finest musicians set to raise the roof this January.