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CHLOE MATHARU

Chloe Matharu is an Award winning Scottish Indian singer-songwriter and harpist on the West Coast of Scotland. Many of her songs draw on her time as a Navigational Officer in the Merchant Navy, inspired by the natural world as experienced at sea. On tour she performs with her harp in English, Scots, and Welsh.  Her music offers "an intriguing insight into a new tradition of maritime folk music with thoughtful song writing embellished by her voice and superb harp playing" - The Herald. From 2024 she will also bring electronic soundscapes to the stage, as heard in her single The Silkie of Sule Skerry, with a three piece band.

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She has performed at impressive venues such as Celtic Connections, Cambridge Folk Festival, Glad Cafe Glasgow, Green Note in London, Fringe by the Sea, Edinburgh Fringe and Hartlepool Folk Festival. She received Celtic Music Radio’s Album of the Year for her debut album, Small Voyages, which was released in October 2022. She was selected by Showcase Scotland in the WOMEX awarded Global Music Match 2022. In 2023 she was awarded a Danny at Celtic Connections; a Live Music Award at the Greenock Telegraph Community Awards; nominated by public vote in the Wales Folk Awards; and selected as one of five finalists in the Canadian Goderich Emerging Artist Showcase. In 2023 she has performed live on BBC Radio Four Woman’s Hour, BBC Scotland News TV program The Seven, interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland’s The Afternoon Show.

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"Thoughtful and sensitive songwriting...a natural ebb and flow and a beautiful dynamic movement that carries the listener along. She is most certainly a name to watch for." - by Folk Radio UK

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“absolutely incredible”  BBC Woman’s Hour

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“Voice with the purity of a folk classic” - BBC Herald

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“Her music is truly hauntinng” - BBC Radio Scotland

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Website:  www.chloematharu.co.uk/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChloeMatharuMusic

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chloematharumusic/

Bandcamp:  https://girlandaharp.bandcamp.com/

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                                   CELTINENTAL MUSIC

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Celtinental Music is proud to be working with several of the finest award winning internationally renowned Celtic and European musicians in the world. Contact Celtinental for artist electronic press kits, booking info, and artist availability.
 

We hope everyone is doing well, but we and others know that things are not as they were before Covid, and the change in administration concerning issues such as immigration. More foreign artists are having difficulty getting in and out of the US, and venues are still trying to recover from Covid, and not able to give the guarantees that foreign artists need to tour. So we are limited in booking our foreign artists in the US for now, until the situation improves for both artists and venues. We are sorry that things have come to this, and we hope that the climate for artists improves soon!

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                                                                A Tribute to Aki Namioka

 

I am very sorry to have to say that my friend and fellow booking agent Aki has succumbed to a complication of her cancer, and passed away on Saturday, September 26th, 2026. She was taken too soon, and we are still shocked by the loss. She was energetic and fun, enjoyed booking, and we did more than just booking together, such as ghost hunting, playing music together, and going out to events, even traveling together for our  very first FAI Conference. She will be sorely missed, and the bands that she managed became her friends, and mourn the loss of her also. It is a sign that we should hold everyone dear to us as close as we can, because you always think you have more time - until you don't ... 

                                                                   Me, Iona Fyfe, and Aki at FAI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Miki Nelson

celtic.booking1st at gmail dot com

206.861.4530

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Maggie Smillie (Tannahills east coast booking)

tannahillweavers at gmail dot com

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