Ryan Young

A concert by Ryan Young, a fiddle player working in traditional Scottish music, staged in the Copper Bar at Band on the Wall in Manchester's Northern Quarter.

Ryan Young plays the fiddle in the traditional Scottish idiom, giving new treatments to older tunes, many of them rarely heard today, and singing through the instrument. The debut album was recorded with Jesse Lewis, a four-time GRAMMY winner whose collaborators include Bela Fleck and Yo Yo Ma. It was launched at the Feakle Traditional Music Festival in County Clare, with guitarist Dennis Cahill, who has also played with Martin Hayes and The Gloaming.

Ryan Young has been nominated at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Awards: for Musician of the Year in 2022 and 2025, for Album of the Year in 2024, and for Live Act of the Year in 2023. The music is described as full of melodic ideas, with a driving rhythm, a wide range of dynamics and close precision. Ryan Young has toured the UK, Europe, North America and Australia.

The concert takes place at the Copper Bar, the room within Band on the Wall, a concert and performance venue in Manchester's Northern Quarter. The evening suits listeners who want to hear traditional Scottish fiddle playing performed in a solo-led, personal style.