Fiddler Shona Mooney is one of Scotland's leading young traditional musicians. The winner of the 2006 BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year, Shona began playing music with her parents in the band O'er the Border and has gone on to feature prominently in the acclaimed Borders Young Fiddles and CrossCurrent and has toured with the Scottish folk orchestra, Unusual Suspects.

Shona graduated with first-class honours from Newcastle in 2005. While at Newcastle, she and four friends formed the band CrossCurrent which has played at prestigious events including Cambridge, Warwick and Dranouter folk festivals and released its first album, Momentum, in summer 2005.

Shona's compositions also include 'The Wildflower Suite', written for twelve musicians and inspired by Nell Hardie's watercolours, and as well as playing and composing she is committed to passing on her fiddling skills. She teaches privately and at The Sage in Gateshead and takes workshops at folk festivals up and down the country.