S i n g e r - s o n g w r i t e r
Photo by Jack Fingland
Grace Morton is a Glasgow based singer-songwriter. Her playing and creating is rooted in her childhood growing up in Trotternish on the North West Coast of Skye where she was surrounded by music and the warmth of community; offering inspiration and a sense of roots that run deep. Her writing follows the ebbs and flows of the inner and outer world, river swims, moving from sea to city and finding home in people and places. Her songs also visit the more complex parts of growing and learning to know and un-know her own skin - turning these moments and parts of life into song has always felt like a way to feel raw, honest and connected. Grace hopes her songs create a confluence that is a transportation to somewhere calm, beautifully rugged and familiar.
Grace released her debut single 'City to the Sea' in early 2021. The track is an ode to home, and the feelings that moving from remoteness to busy city life brings. She wrote the first half of the song at 16 whilst living on Skye, and the second verse came years later through reminiscing the Island's familiar colours and coastline whilst living in Glasgow.
In the interim years between releasing City to the Sea and the music set to be released as we move into 2025, Grace committed herself to honing her ability to gig and love the experience of sharing her songs. She has played sets at festivals such as Under Canvas, Eden Festival, Worthy Earth Festival, Celtic Connections, and has been fortunate enough to open for some of her favourite musicians - Rachel Sermanni, Hannah Rarity, Salthouse, The Deep Blue, Hushman and Rachel Dadd.
'Dawn' is a collaboration from Grace and good friend and fellow musician Lewis McLaughlin. It's a song that has been through many lives and evolutions; first born many years ago after a music-filled night in the hum of the Glasgow folk scene as a soothing antidote to a tired state. Grace and Lewis worked through the winter on the song, writing a chorus that echoed a sense of needing to see light break through darkness. The familiar and comforting feel of the track led Grace to write a verse in Scottish Gaelic, a craft she hopes to develop. Both Grace and Lewis look forward to bringing Dawn to live audiences in 2025.