Reskillience
Reskillience
Catie Payne
PLACE AS ELDER w/ QUINIE
1 hour 12 minutes Posted Jan 18, 2026 at 7:00 pm.
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Big personal shares at the top of the ep (preview: podcasting terrifies me) before an utterly delightful conversation with Scots folk singer Josie Vallely aka. Quinie [https://www.quinie.co.uk/].
Quinie's album Forefowk, Mind Me was named The Guardian's best folk release of 2025, but don't worry if you're not into bagpipes because we mostly chat about:
Not making your art your career
Tips for slow art/seasonal living in a rushing world
The mind bending differences between relating with Country in Australia versus Scotland
Minority languages and evocation of place
The right to roam
Confused white settler syndrome
When you're a cultural mongrel
Impure ancestry
Place as a surrogate elder
Tradition in motion
Where do songs live?
Journeying on horseback
Horses as bodyguards
Why we all just want to be got
🧙‍♀️LINKY POOS
Quinie's home on the web [https://www.quinie.co.uk/]
Quinie on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/quinie.music/]
[album] Forefowk, Mind Me ~ Quinie [https://open.spotify.com/album/0xbYYtVhesOTeHJmzmT6np?si=BMDVtJNoQ1yDTzLsr797gg]
Quinie's seasonal almanac ~ Things that happen every year in a cycle [https://quiniemerch.bigcartel.com/product/everything-happens-in-a-cycle-almanac-wall-hanger]
[film] Forefowk, Mind Me  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjLd9k_WF40]
Guardian review of Quinie's album [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/may/23/quinie-forefowk-mind-me-review-collecting-songs-on-horseback-this-scottish-musician-is-alive-with-ideas]
Cover art photo credit: Anthony Rintoul
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