AMY DUNCAN

Amy Dunan began playing double bass at the age of 14 and, just two years later, was offered an unconditional place at the Royal Northern College of Music — following in the footsteps of her mother, a freelance viola player.

Amongst Amy’s early musical influences were The Cure and King Crimson, which opened up an experimental approach to music that developed when she joined Cora Bissett and Sean Kennedy in the folk-punk band Swelling Meg. They developed a solid following and released an album and EP. Since then, Amy has gone on to perform with many singer-songwriters including Carol Laula, Lee Patterson, and Lisa Rigby.

Being a classically trained double bass player, Amy has always played bass on her own recordings, as well as writing her own string arrangements. In 2023 she performed double bass in the National Theatre of Scotland’s acclaimed production June Carter Cash: The Woman, Her Music and Me, written by Charlene Boyd and directed by former Swelling Meg bandmate Cora Bissett.