Sarah Smout
Celebrated cellist Sarah Smout hails from Yorkshire, and has toured internationally with acts including
Michael Chapman, BJ Cole, Bridget St. John, The Mediaeval Baebes, Rachel Ries, King Creosote, Rosie Doonan, The Magpies, Jess Morgan, and Gren Bartley. Her cello playing has also appeared on dozens of critically acclaimed albums in the folk and roots scenes. She has appeared at many festivals across Europe, including Primavera Sound (Barcelona), Glastonbury, Green Man, Shambala, Larmer Tree, Costa del Folk, Towersey, Shrewsbury, Cambridge and countless others.
As a singer and poet in her own right, it was only a matter of time before she began a solo career. In 2017, her song ‘Arctic Ground’ was written for Greenpeace and used for one of their Save the Arctic campaign videos, which depicts the tremendous efforts of protestors and native tribes against oil drilling.
After touring the Highlands and Hebrides in 2017/18 with Sophie Ramsay, they set off on their most ambitious journey to date - a musical voyage over land and sea from Orkney to Iceland, including a sail boat between Shetland and the Faroes. This experience has resulted in Sarah developing her entrancing new solo show, Eyjar, combining poetry, song and looped cello soundscapes which explore our connections to nature and place. Interweaved within it are dialect words for flora and fauna from each island, and interpretations of traditional songs learnt from local musicians en-route. She has performed the show only twice due to Covid, but the future will see Sarah performing for the English Folk Expo supporting Sam Lee, Nest Collective, Timber Festival and more TBA.