Music like Capercaillie

Capercaillie is a Scottish folk band that was founded in 1984 by Donald Shaw and led by Karen Matheson. Capercaillie performs traditional Gaelic and contemporary English songs. The group adapts traditional Gaelic music and traditional lyrics with modern production techniques and instruments such as electric guitar and bass guitar, though rarely synthesizers or drum machines.

The group's albums have appeared in the UK Albums Chart.

Originating from Argyll, a region of western Scotland, the band is named after the Western capercaillie, sometimes called a wood grouse, a native Scottish bird.

Their first album, Cascade, was recorded in 1984.

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the band gave their last known (free) performance on 17 August 2019 at the Festival des Filets Bleus in Concarneau, Brittany, France until they performed for the first time in 2 years on 6 August 2021 at the Wickham Festival in Wickham, Hampshire, England.