SWINGING ON BIRCHES - AUTUMN TRAD FESTIVAL 2025

An exciting, innovative new trio consisting of Juliette Lemoine (cello), Madeleine Stewart (fiddle), and Heather Cartwright (guitar/vocals). The band weave songs, tunes and harmonies across cello, fiddle and guitar, creating lush, intricate pieces.

Their music is drawn from their shared love of Scottish traditional music, though each musician brings her own interpretation through different musical backgrounds.

Juliette plays trad/jazz fusion in her own band and studied classical music, Heather sings her own songs as well as traditional ones and plays fingerstyle guitar/folk music, and Madeleine plays in a trad/classical string quartet and has been playing traditional fiddle music since childhood.

Each of the trio has been making her mark in the UK music scene individually, and they are now joining forces to form Swinging on Birches.