Iona Lane

Highlands-based songwriter Iona Lane weaves ecology, conservation, islands and folklore into poetic songs and contemplative melodies. Her 2025 album Swilkie was written during three residencies on the Isle of Eigg, Isle of Mull and Sanday in Orkney, with a sense of place and landscape at the core of the songs. Recorded in a boathouse on Scotland’s West Coast, the eager listener may even hear the lapping tide murmuring through the music – from basking sharks to lighthouses, lichen to vanishing islands, curlews to tree planting,

Iona’s connection to places by the sea is translated through evolving vocal melodies, subtle guitar and droning shruti box. She is joined by a wealth of musicians including Ben Nicholls (double bass), Louis Campbell (guitars/banjo), Malin Lewis (fiddle/pipes), Signy Jakobsdottir (drums/percussion), and Jenny Sturgeon, Josie Duncan and Michael McGovern on backing vocals.