Christina Stewart comes from a Highland background and the singing of lullabies and other traditional songs around the house was taken for granted as she was growing up. She went on to study Traditional Song as part of her degree at Edinburgh University and the School of Scottish Studies. Performing and teaching traditional song have been constant features of her life and in recent years she has taught for Highland Council, the Traditional Music and Song Association of Scotland, Eden Court Theatre, the Care and Learning Alliance and Festivals including Glasgow's Celtic Connections and Belladrum's Tartan Heart, working with all age groups from pre-school to adults.
Also appearing on kist o dreams is vocalist Christine McClenaghan. She is Inverness born and bred and is now based in Easter Ross. She and Christina have worked together on many other projects over the years, not least in the women's singing groups A'Seinn Quines and The Feisty Besoms.
Bill Taylor is a specialist in the performance of ancient harp music from Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and is one of very few players investigating these repertoires on medieval gut-strung harps, wire-strung clarsachs and Renaissance harps with buzzing bray pins. He has been resident in Scotland for many years, where he teaches and performs with the Highland early music group Coronach and the duo The Art of Musick. A former president of the International Historical Harp Society, he also plays with the Belgian Late-Medieval ensemble Quadrivium and accompanies the Scottish female vocal quartet Canty. Bill teaches community music classes through Fèis Rois and is a guest lecturer at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. As a teacher of historical harps, he is frequently invited to lead workshops in the UK, Europe and the USA, including regular appearances at the Edinburgh International Harp Festival. Bill provides accompaniement on both CDs. For more information about Bill, visit his site http://www.clarsach.net/Bill_Taylor/
Bob Pegg is a multi-instrumentalist and producer who recorded and produced both "kist o dreams" and the "Bairn's Kist" CDs and plays a variety of instruments on the latter. In the early seventies he founded the cult folk/rock band Mr. Fox. Bob made two L.P.'s (as they were known then) with Nick Strutt and released his solo album 'Ancient Maps' in 1975. Since then Bob's work has found a broad base in education and the arts. In 1990 Bob moved to the Highlands, becoming Ross and Cromarty's musician in residence until the Council was dissolved in 1998. He also performs regularly as a storyteller, and runs workshops for children, especially at Whitby Folk Week, where his 'Children In Performance' sessions have been running to great acclaim for many years. Bob's "The Last Wolf" (RHYD5009) contains material from all stages of Bob's life and career. He is now working as a freelance arts advisor, combined with occasional gigs as a solo artist. For more information about Bob, visit http://www.howl.fsbusiness.co.uk/
Olivia Ross plays fiddle and viola on the "Bairn's Kist" CD. She came up through the residential music tuition of Feis Rois, progressing through Junior and Senior feisean and now passes on her skills to a new generation of feis participants. In 2006, Olivia graduated with first class Honours from Newcastle’s Traditional Music course and now splits her time between her Seaboard village home in the Highlands and her music projects in Newcastle.
Thanks to the millennium bunch, 
