Iona Lane

Iona Lane is a Highlands-based songwriter who has been captivating audiences in the UK and continental Europe with her fine singing and fingerstyle guitar playing. Her debut album, Hallival, charted at number 36 in the Official Folk Album Charts and was named by Folk Radio UK as number 27 in their Top Albums of 2022. The album received widespread press including in The Guardian, Walk Highlands, BBC Radio 2 and The Scotsman, and Iona went on to tour extensively, including joining Karine Polwart on a run of dates in England. Iona's latest album, Swilkie, was released at the beginning of 2025 and weaves ecology, conservation, islands and folklore into poetic songs and contemplative melodies. Written during three residencies on the Isle of Eigg, Isle of Mull and Sanday in Orkney, sense of place and landscape are at the core of these songs. Reviewing the album for Folk London, TwickFolk's Paul Solman praised Iona's "gentle and intimate sound" and "evocative and cinematic songwriting rooted in humanity?s relationship with the natural world".