Chloe Matharu with Andrea Kirwin & Claire Evelynn

Chloe Matharu is an Award winning Scottish Indian singer songwriter and harpist from Wemyss Bay on the West Coast of Scotland. Many of her songs draw on her time as a Navigational Officer in the Merchant Navy, inspired by the natural world as experienced at sea. On tour she performs solo with her harp in English, Scots and Welsh. Her music offers "an intriguing insight into a new tradition of maritime folk music with thoughtful song writing embellished by her voice and superb harp playing" - The Herald. From 2024 she will also bring electronic soundscapes to the stage, as heard in her single The Silkie of Sule Skerry, with a three piece band.

She has performed at impressive venues such as Celtic Connections, Cambridge Folk Festival, Glad Cafe Glasgow, Green Note in London, Fringe by the Sea, Edinburgh Fringe and Hartlepool Folk Festival. She received Celtic Music Radio’s Album of the Year for her debut album, Small Voyages, which was released in October 2022. She was selected by Showcase Scotland in the WOMEX awarded Global Music Match 2022. In 2023 she was awarded a Danny at Celtic Connections; a Live Music Award at the Greenock Telegraph Community Awards; nominated by public vote in the Wales Folk Awards; and selected as one of five finalists in the Canadian Goderich Emerging Artist Showcase. In 2023 she has performed live on BBC Radio Four Woman’s Hour, BBC Scotland News TV program The Seven, interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland’s The Afternoon Show. Chloe lives on her family run Alpaca Trekking and Goat Yoga centre.

Andrea Kirwin is an Australian-Fijian Singer-songwriter who has become a much loved local artist and live music advocate since moving to the coast 10 years ago.

With a warm stage presence, soulful sound and a knack for storytelling, Andrea creates beautiful original songs that are influenced by her early years growing up as the daughter of a Fijian Church minister in Townsville in the late 80s and her love of American R&B/Soul as a teen in the 90s. Having only discovered Folk and World music through friends at University in Canberra, she picked up a guitar at aged 21 and started her songwriting Journey with her first band, The Andi and George band. Since then she has gone on to release 5 independent albums under her record label Peace Run Records. Andrea regularly performs as a duo with her wife Claire Evelynn on Celtic harp and together they create truly beautiful renditions of Andrea’s original music with recent performances at Woodford Folk Festival, National Folk Festival (2022) and Bay of Islands Jazz and Blues festival (NZ).