About

Mike Vass is a musician, composer and producer based at Lochalsh in the North West Highlands. He was named Composer of the Year at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards in 2012, and his album In the Wake of Neil Gunn was longlisted for the Scottish Album of the Year Award in 2015. From 2019 to 2022 he was Traditional Artist in Residence at the School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh.

This site is an archive of his records, tunes and the places behind them. It is built from Mike’s own notes, the record sleeves and what the press wrote at the time. Photographs are Mike’s own unless credited. The coastline on the map is drawn from real shoreline data.