So this special folk album of the Year award edition of Folk on Foot is devoted to celebrating the evocative album Ochi-speaking Ochi by the Klasakh player, that's the Scottish harp player, Grace Stewart-Skinner.

And I'm delighted to say that Grace joins me now.

Congratulations on your nomination, Grace.

Thank you.

And there's so much to ask about with this album, but I suppose the starting point

ought to be this village in the Black Isle called Avok.

Tell us why that village means something to you and where it is and what it's like.

So my dad's family are from, oh, so I didn't grow up there like I grew up very close to there so I was there

lots during my childhood and very much my dad brought me up very much knowing that that was where I was from

and where I belong to.

So it's very small, like, East Coast village,, not a seeming, very small, very quiet.

But there's so much a culture there.

There are lots of people who don't know that because it is so tucked away.

And it's a fishing village, isn't it?

Fishing is very, very important in its past.

Yes, so it was, that was why it was there, really.

Like, it was established because it's a natural harbor,

like the way that the coastline goes.

So that's why people settled there way back was to go fishing.

So it's very much part of the culture and the heritage.

But nowadays, the boats have just gone larger and larger, so we can't go down because it's a little bit in narrowing.

Yeah.

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