
Photo: Bryan Ledgard · CC BY 2.0 · credits
Duncan Chisholm
Person · male · United Kingdom · Inverness · born 1968
British musician
Timeline
1960s
Biography
Biography
Duncan Chisholm (born 31 October 1968) is a Scottish fiddle player and composer. He has released seven solo albums as a solo artist. His studio album, Affric, released in 2012, was longlisted for the Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award. In 2022, he released a seventh studio album, titled Black Cuillin. He tours with the Scottish Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis's band. He is also a founder member of the folk rock group Wolfstone. He played fiddle for Runrig.
Solo
Redpoint (1997)
The Door of Saints (2001)
Farrar (2008)
Canaich (2010)
Affric (2012)
Live at Celtic Connections (2013)
Sandwood (2018)
Black Cuillin (2022)
with Wolfstone
Unleashed (1991)
The Chase (1992)
Year of the Dog (1994)
The Half Tail (1996)
Pick of the Litter (1997)
Seven (1999)
Not Enough Shouting (2000)
Almost an Island (2002)
Terra Firma (2007)
Guest appearances
Across the City and the World – Donnie Munro (2002)
Proterra – Runrig (2003)
Day of Days – Runrig (2004)
Heart of America – Donnie Munro (2006)
Everything You See – Runrig (2007)
Uam – Julie Fowlis (2009)
The Beat of You – Coast (2010)
Live at Perthshire Amber – Julie Fowlis (2011)
Uncovered – Beth Nielsen Chapman (2013)
Party on the Moor – Runrig (2014)
Gach Sgeul – Julie Fowlis (2014)
Alterum – Julie Fowlis (2017)
Flat Earth Society (on the track Isak) – West of Eden (2019)
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 3 | 16th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
No discography rows stored yet
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Duncan Chisholm head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 3 | 16th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duncan_Chisholm_%2828505187696%29.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5314310genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5314310seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Chisholmbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Chisholm
Why this artist is in the database
- List of folk musicians
- List of Scottish musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Bryan Ledgard · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q5314310 · MusicBrainz: 3d95e7b1-8f66-4d86-80d3-0f41d258ac88
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