Emmy Award winning composer McCreary has been fascinated with the folk music of Jacobean Scotland from an early age. "When I first learned to drive, I was blasting bagpipes from my car speakers, " he jokes. His fascination quickly became a passion: "toward the end of high school, I began researching folk songs of the Jacobite uprising. I was awestruck by their ability to communicate tales of tragedy and triumph through lyrics with double meaning, woven along deceptively simple melodic lines and evocative harmonic progressions, " McCreary notes.