James Yorkston

Caitlin Gilligan at Hallé at St Michaels

James Yorkston is a singer-songwriter and author from the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Since 2001, he has released a series of acclaimed albums on Domino Records and toured them worldwide.

His most recent album, 2025’s Songs for Nina and Johanna, is a collection of duets with Nina Persson of The Cardigans and Johanna of First Aid Kit, and earned James and Nina a slot on Later… With Jools Holland, as well as BBC 6 Music sessions for Huw Stephens, Marc Riley and Gideon Coe.

‘Travelling with James Yorkston, Persson, Söderberg, and all their friends is a journey entirely devoid of cliché, full of adventure, and impossible to tire of.’– Popmatters.

James most recent novel is due in October 2026: Callum, Reine, Sylvie and Sparrow is fragmentary novel. Nine interwoven fictional tales involving Callum, a journalist and musician, alongside his friends, lovers and family. Includes: music, travel, lochs, love, despair, strippers, football, antiquarian books, Scotland, Ireland, goodies and baddies and everything else that matters in the world. Perhaps.

‘I absolutely love this book… The story flows effortlessly… An unsentimental and unflinching miracle of remembrance’– Jarvis Cocker on The Book of the Gaels.

Special guest is Scottish folk multi-instrumentalist Caitlin Gilligan.

This concert takes place in Hallé at St Michael’s – a former Roman Catholic church, which was founded in 1859 and became the heart of the Little Italy Community in Ancoats.