More About Me

Expressing Scotland is a Community Interest Company run and operated by myself, Simon Gall. I have over twenty years of experience working in the world of culture as a development professional, performer, and, more recently, a fieldworker/researcher. I have worked in the Third and Public Sectors and as a freelancer in a wide variety of roles both in Scotland and internationally. ​

As a development professional, I have devised, secured funding for, and delivered numerous cultural projects and programmes. I have also worked as a funding assessor and panellist for national and local cultural funders such as Creative Scotland, Aberdeen City Council, and Dundee City Council.​

As an ethnologist, I document, research, and write about culture in everyday life. Deeply committed to the notion that everyone does culture all the time, I am passionate about celebrating and, where desired, supporting informal cultural expression. I hold a MLitt with Distinction from the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen.​

As a musician I perform, tour, and record with the award-winning band Salsa Celtica and Cuban band Son al Son. The work I did with Clype from 2015–2018 saw us nominated for Album of the Year at the BBC Alba Trad Awards in 2016 and, in 2017, I was nominated for Scots Singer of the Year at the same awards. With these bands I have toured widely across the world and performed at prestigious festivals, venues, and events such as Glastonbury Festival, Celtic Connections, The South Bank, and so on.