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Recognition for Turas and Cairn

April 15, 2022

Fergus McCreadie has been winning awards since his mid-teens and his group's debut album, Turas, released in 2018, showed extraordinary maturity. It won the Album of the Year title at both the Parliamentary Jazz Awards - the UK's most prestigious jazz prizes - and the Scottish Jazz Awards. McCreadie himself went on to win the Best Instrumentalist title at the Scottish Jazz Awards in 2018 and 2020.

Chosen as Jazz FM's featured album of the week ahead of its release, Cairn earned five stars from Mojo and four stars from Jazzwise and was acclaimed as one of the key jazz releases of 2021 by prominent industry observers before the end of January.

It marks the further development of McCreadie's composing talents and the trio's ability to think, create and play with one voice, qualities that make their live performances such exuberant, uplifting and soul-stirring experiences.

The new album, Forest Floor, is out now.