Session Fiddle/Mandolin

Scottish based fiddle & mandolin player with several years touring, recording and producing experience. A finalist in the 2021 BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year and graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Traditional Music honours degree

Orcadian multi-instrumentalist, Graham Rorie is one of a long line of folk musicians from the Northern Isles making a name for themselves in the Scottish Folk Scene. Since graduating from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Traditional Music Degree in 2018, Graham has been a finalist in the 2021 BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year competition and has been nominated for ‘Musician of the Year’ at the 2023 Scots Trad Music Awards.

A founding member of the quartet ‘Gnoss’, Graham has toured around the world with festival highlights including Glasgow’s Celtic Connections, Cambridge Folk Festival, Tønder Festival (Denmark) and Festival Interceltique de Lorient (France). Gnoss have performed at Port Fairy Folk Festival and the Blue Mountains Music Festival in Australia as well as showcasing at Womex, Womad and Folk Alliance International in Montreal.

Gnoss have been nominated for four MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards including ‘Up and Coming Artist of the Year’ (2017), ’Album of the Year’ for their last two records, ‘Drawn From Deep Water’ (2019) and ‘The Light of the Moon’ (2021) and most recently ‘Folk Band of the Year’ (2023).

When not touring, Graham works from his studio in the Orkney Islands, where he engineers, mixes and produces tracks for various musicians across different genres.

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