Quinie, aka Josie Vallely, is based in Glasgow. She sings primarily unaccompanied in Scots, with a style inspired by the traditions of Scottish Traveller singers, and in particular Lizzie Higgins (1929-1993). Inspired by Higgins, Quinie’s experiments with composition and vocal techniques create a dialogue between pipe music and voice. Her work evokes a strong sense of place rooted in an imagined Scotland, and explores relationships with land and language.  
Quinie's first eponymous album was released on casette By GLARC in 2017, Followed by Buckie Prins, in collaboration with accompanied by Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh, Oliver Pit and Neil McDermott. They bring a musicality to the tracks that combines minimalist tension, foundations of drone, stabbing atonal noise, and choppy medieval repetition.
Since these first releases, Quinie has focussed on projects and collaborations, developing her  experiments with composition and vocal techniques create a dialogue between pipe music and voice. Some recent notable collaborations include

• Thyme piobaireachd (Takuroko, 2020). A long form compositional conversation between unaccompanied vocals and snare drum, building on the piobaireachd tradition, with Laurie Pitt.
  
• The voicing of A/Am/Ams (come ashore; turn over), a new work for four players by composer Rufus Isabel Elliot. (Glarc, 2921) Drawing from Greek mythology Scots and Middle English, the piece uses hybrid language and inventive instrumental character work to imagine two protagonists in love and conflict at the end of the world.
  
• Sae Aye, (Counterflows at home, 2022) a collaboration with Arnold De Boer (the Ex), as part of Ghost Tunes. Ghost Tunes  is an expanded concept album created by artists working with sound and writing from Australia and Scotland that considers the physical world as cultural swales and swirls around language, time and ecologies.
  
• Development of work with piper and multi-instrumentalist Harry Gorski Brown
  

She has recently performed at festivals including Supernomal, Edinburgh Art Festival, The daughter of the cups of the north (An Tobar), and Counterflows.
This website is an archive of past projects, releases and writings. For up to date news please follow
​Twitter: @JVquinie 
​Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/quiniemusic

Please get in touch about potential collaborations and projects by
​Email:  quiniemusic@gmail.com