About Liv

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Hailed as a "brilliant and collaborative" representative of her instrument (Jay Harvey, Upstage),  Liv Castor is an artist whose playing marries ancient and new traditions. Steeped from a young age in the sounds of the British folk and early music revivals of the last century, Liv first found her way into both of these genres through singing, a skill that has informed how she takes them to the harp, or clàrsach. With a life-long passion for Scottish music as her particular lodestar, Liv has developed a singular voice on the harp which is in demand across many artistic disciplines.  

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    In addition to her work as a performer, Liv is an active scholar of  western folk traditions. As a researcher and collector, she loves to seek out lesser-known gems of songs and tunes and put them into fresh contexts, and as a composer, she strives to bring the essences of the traditions she loves into more contemporary pieces. She is also a dedicated student, speaker, and singer of Scottish Gaelic, a language which has influenced her approach to traditional music in profound ways.

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Liv's debut EP Streal, the product of her duo project The Rùnach, is out now. 

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