Calum Stewart & Lauren MacColl - Wooden Flute & Fiddle: This is the first duo album from Calum Stewart (wooden flute ) and Lauren MacColl (fiddle and viola) - two excellent musicians at the top of their game. Calum and Lauren are steeped in the traditions of the easterly coast of the north of Scotland , their native Moray and Black Isle areas. Their shared influences encompass Gaelic vocal music, traditional music from home and Ireland, Cape Breton and Brittany, and music from their talented contemporaries. On this recording, Lauren uses various tunings on fiddle and viola to create different resonances with Calum's wooden flute playing. The material is sourced from old manuscripts and their own writing. It is a raw sound at times reminiscent of far older traditional recordings, intimate and immediate. They are joined on a few tracks by Andy May (Baltic Crossing) on harmonium ,and Eamon Doorley (Danu, Julie Fowlis ) on bouzouki.