Dòchas | en

Dochas started life in 1997 as a three-piece ceilidh dance band formed by Rachel Walker from Kinlochewe, Carol-Anne MacKay from Strathy and Sharon Hassan from Insch, classmates on the R.S.A.M.D.’s inaugural intake of students for the BA (Scottish Music) degree course. Between them they played accordion, whistle, fiddle, pipes, piano and performed Gaelic song, and the band really started as a way for the impoverished students to use their combined skills to earn a bit of extra cash playing pub gigs, weddings, parties and dances. In 1998, singer Rachel was approached to perform with a band at the Highland Traditional...