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New Album 28.11.25
Christmas Songs from the Kitchen Table Vol. 1 is a collection of traditional Christmas carols sung from the comfort of the kitchen table. It's a warm, unvarnished celebration of songs that have soundtracked generations.
Recorded simply with guitar and voice using analogue techniques I wanted it to feel like you were sitting around the table with me. You can hear the sound of the room and the buzz of the fridge. It's not a glossy studio album. It's Christmas the way I know and love it - real, close, and sometimes imperfect. I learned these songs through osmosis, as most schoolchildren did in my part of the world. They were sung in
school assemblies, in the church on a Sunday. They were on the radio and the TV, they just seeped into you. It's only now, as l've got a bit older, that I realise what an unbelievable canon of music we've been gifted. What great songs they are.
That deep affection for the tradition is what drives Christmas Songs from the Kitchen Table Vol. 1.
CALUM WOOD
Bio//
Songwriter/Producer
Calum Wood is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from the northeast of Scotland, steeped in the country’s living folk tradition. Best known for his warm voice, deft guitar and banjo work, and a gift for storytelling through song, Calum brings an unmistakable Scottish sensibility to everything he plays. He first turned heads as a core member of festival favourites The Banana Sessions, sharing stages at Glastonbury, T in the Park, Belladrum, Knockengorroch and Beat-Herder. For six years he also performed nightly as a solo artist in Edinburgh’s long-running Taste of Scotland show, playing to more than 40,000 visitors a year.
Since stepping fully into his own name, Calum has balanced solo releases with wide-ranging collaborations. In 2024 he wrote and recorded She Wynds On, a commissioned EP celebrating the Snow Roads of the Cairngorms National Park alongside Ross Ainslie, Charlie McKerron and Robert Black. Earlier, he curated Royal Oak: Best of Folk (2008), a landmark compilation that featured Aberfeldy, Kris Drever, John Langan and many more, with a foreword by Ian Rankin.
2025 saw the release of Patterns, his acclaimed stripped-back debut album of original material, described by Folking.com as “bobbing and leaping between moods with an agility born of its composition.”
That same winter he returned to the songs that first shaped him with Christmas Songs from the Kitchen Table Vol. 1 – a collection of traditional carols recorded simply at home with guitar, voice and analogue warmth. No gloss, no overdubs, just the sound of the room and the quiet magic of songs learned at school assemblies, church services and around northeast firesides. Whether writing new stories or rekindling old ones, Calum’s music is rooted in honesty, place and the enduring pull of Scottish folk tradition.