David Francis is a songwriter, lyricist, storyteller, guitarist, and dance-caller. He recently retired as Director of Scotland’s network of traditional music organisations, the Traditional Music Forum.

Dougie Pincock started his musical career as a Highland piper at primary school in Barrhead, near Glasgow, in 1970. After a moderately successful career in juvenile solo piping competitions, and a spell with the Neilston and District Pipe Band, he became a member of the Glasgow folk group Kentigern. 

A fluent Gaelic speaker, Mairi Kidd graduated with a First in Celtic Studies from the University of Edinburgh. Her novel The Specimens - a retelling of the 1828 crimes of Burke and Hare - was Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month. Her latest novel Poor Creatures, an immersive reimagining of the life of the young Mary Shelley, was published in 2025.

Katie Wight is a Gaelic Medium educator, having spent many years as a teacher and school leader in both rural and city schools. Currently, she works as a lecturer in Teacher Education at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, training the new generation of Gaelic medium teachers. 

Katie was born in Cape Breton and spent the first part of her childhood there, where she learned to stepdance amongst tradition bearers in the community. She has performed and taught extensively nationally and internationally over the years.