A Journey of Cultural Reclamation…
THE BRIDGE
Over the coming months, Griogair will be releasing a powerful series of Gaelic songs and cinematic videos, including those featured on the original Outlander series — each one a step across the Bridge.
These songs are part of a larger reclamation — a return to his ancestral voice, his cultural memory, and his creative sovereignty.
This Bridge campaign will pave the way for Solace — Griogair’s long-awaited album, years in the making. Solace is a landmark self-produced record shaped through years of inner reckoning, creative solitude, and ritual homecoming.
SOLACE
Solace is the long-awaited body of work that brings together over a decade of vision, resilience, and ancestral fire. Rooted in the Gaelic tradition but soaring far beyond its boundaries, this album weaves together ancient songlines, bold cinematic production, and deeply personal storytelling. It is not just an album — it is a reclamation. A return. A reckoning.
Written and produced entirely by Griogair, it responds to deeper silences around identity, cultural erasure, and belonging. It stands as an act of return — musical, personal, and ancestral — rooted in the living pulse of his native culture. With layers of original song, Gaelic poetry, global textures, and mythic-scale soundscapes, it offers listeners an experience as vast as the landscapes that inspired it. This is Griogair’s most expansive work to date — a wave that’s been building for years, now ready to break.
Griogair’s upcoming landmark album — a cinematic odyssey of healing, and homecoming.
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From unreleased singles to stories behind the songs, step inside the world of Griogair’s long-awaited album — starting now.
OUTLANDER
Griogair’s Voice in the Global Hit Series Outlander
Griogair has been a featured artist, arranger, and songwriter across four seasons of the original Outlander series — Seasons 2, 5, 6, and 7 — in long-standing collaboration with Emmy-winning composer Bear McCreary. His powerful interpretations of traditional Gaelic songs have brought ancestral music to millions around the world, earning him recognition as the Gaelic voice of the show.
Outlander is one of the most successful and far-reaching historical dramas of the past decade, with a devoted international fanbase spanning over 80 countries. Known for its sweeping cinematography, emotional storytelling, and rich soundscape, the series has elevated Scottish culture on a global scale — and Griogair’s voice has been central to that resonance. From haunting ballads to stirring battle songs, his music has helped define the emotional core of the show.
In Season 6, Griogair both performed the series’ iconic theme song and penned its original Gaelic lyrics — a landmark moment of cultural reclamation broadcast to millions. In Season 7, he returned with another powerful contribution to the soundtrack, appearing alongside artists such as Sinéad O’Connor. Across each season, his artistry has brought depth, authenticity, and spiritual power to the score, weaving Highland tradition into the fabric of mainstream television in a way that’s both cinematic and culturally profound.
EXILES
(Bear McCreary – The Singularity, 2024)
Griogair Featured Among Rock Legends…
In 2024, Griogair featured as a lead artist on The Singularity — a major cinematic concept album by Emmy-winning composer Bear McCreary, known for his scores for Outlander, The Rings of Power, and The Walking Dead. The album brought together some of the biggest names in music, including Slash (Guns N' Roses), Serj Tankian (System of a Down), Rufus Wainwright, Joe Satriani, Corey Taylor (Slipknot), and Buck Dharma (Blue Öyster Cult).
Griogair’s track Exiles, created in collaboration with Bear and actor-musician Billy Boyd (best known as Pippin in The Lord of the Rings trilogy), was a groundbreaking fusion of Scottish Gaelic rap, traditional Highland music, orchestral strings, and metal — unlike anything heard before.
Written during lockdown between Los Angeles and a the Isle of Skye, Exiles is a fierce reclamation of identity and language, confronting the cultural erasure of Gaelic-speaking communities. Griogair’s lyrics — delivered mostly in Gaelic — carry the full force of ancestral memory and poetic resistance, anchoring the track with a depth and authenticity few artists could offer.
LISTEN TO EXILES ON SPOTIFY
AFRO CELT SOUND SYSTEM
Griogair at the Heart of Global Fusion
Afro Celt Sound System are one of the most iconic fusion bands of the past three decades — a platinum-selling collective who have sold millions of records worldwide, blending traditional Celtic music with West African rhythms and cutting-edge electronica. Signed to Peter Gabriel’s Real World label, their genre-defying sound built a massive global following and helped define the sound of world music for a generation.
In 2016, founder Simon Emmerson invited Griogair to join the band and lead its creative rebirth — placing him front and centre as the main Gaelic voice and a driving force behind its revival. Griogair became the first to bring authentic Scottish tradition into the Afro Celt sound, co-writing and performing key material on both The Source (2016) and Flight (2018). His contributions helped relaunch the group with renewed global momentum, leading to acclaimed tours, headline festival appearances including Glastonbury, and critical acclaim.
Simon leaned heavily on Griogair’s deep cultural grounding and artistic vision — making him instrumental in bringing new life to one of the world’s most celebrated fusion acts.
EARLY WORK
Dail-riata: Griogair’s Groundbreaking 2007 Debut
Griogair’s debut album Dàil-Riata, released in 2007, marked the arrival of a singular voice in Gaelic music—one of striking power, poetic depth, and cultural authority. It was a release that didn’t just whisper onto the scene, but landed with force: an album that announced the presence of an artist capable of commanding Highland village halls, European festival stages, and national TV broadcasts with equal intensity.
Following its release, Griogair quickly became one of the most compelling presences in the Celtic music world. The album earned rave reviews and widespread media attention, leading to numerous appearances on BBC television and radio, including a live primetime performance on Celtic Connections for BBC Two. Admired by leading figures across Scotland and Ireland—including then-President of Ireland Mary McAleese—he was celebrated as a vital new force at the heart of Gaelic tradition and contemporary expression.
In the years that followed, Dail-riata helped propel him into tours across Europe and cemented his place in the next generation of Gaelic voices.
Following the release of Dail-riata, Griogair shifted focus toward collaborative projects and deeper cultural exploration. During this time, he worked with a range of artists across genres, while also undertaking doctoral research in traditional music and stewarding a small-scale farm in the Highlands. Far from stepping back, this period marked a quiet incubation—where he became a central figure in the evolving Celtic music scene and began developing the powerful new ideas that now shape his forthcoming releases.
STEP INTO THE ALBUM THAT BEGAN THE JOURNEY
From European stages to BBC broadcasts, Dàil-Riata launched Griogair’s journey—now available to stream.