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The New Voices commissions at Celtic Connections generally come about in one of two ways: either a musician approaches festival director Donald Shaw with an idea they're hatching, or Shaw picks out an artist he thinks will rise to the challenge. The young Mull singer-songwriter and guitarist Sorren Maclean, who closes this year's series next Sunday, falls into the latter category - having had his hands full with plenty of other work over the last couple of years - but now sees Shaw's invitation as highly serendipitous.
"We just got chatting in the bar at King Tut's one night last year, after I'd played a gig with Mull Historical Society, and he asked if I'd be interested," Maclean recalls, namechecking one of the leading Scottish acts he's been busy with, the others including Idlewild vocalist Roddy Woomble, both on tour and on his new solo album, and Gaelic singer Joy Dunlop, with whom he's also performing...