Past Members
- Ricky Starrs (musician and early (founding ?) member) - multi instrumentalist guitar mandolin whistles. Played on original Arfolk recording later rereleased as Farewell to Nova Scotia.
- Alan Reid (keyboards/guitar/vocals/accordion) - Alan was the last remaining founding member of the band before to leave in 2010
- Brian McNeill (fiddle) - writing detective novels, teaching with the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Dance
- John Gahagan (fiddle/whistle) - now working as a graphic artist in Glasgow and continuing to play music.
- Jen Clark (vocals, guitar, cittern and dulcimer) - among other things now running a psychotherapy practice and offering voicework in Edinburgh).
- John McCusker (fiddle, replaced McNeill).
- Davy Steele (1948–2001) (lead vocals, writing) sang with Drinkers Drouth, Ceolbeg and Clan Alba as well as making solo albums.
- Dougie Pincock (bagpipes) - now director of the National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music (Sgoil Chiùil na Gàidhealtachd) in Plockton.
- Duncan MacGillivray (bagpipes) - has won many piping competitions, including the Gold Medal at the Northern Meeting in Inverness in 1997.
- Iain MacDonald (bagpipes) - was the musician in residence at the Gaelic College on the Isle of Skye.
- Alistair Russell (guitar, vocal) - during his 13 years in the band he claims to have travelled one million miles. Currently has a solo career.
- Pat Kilbride (guitar, vocal) - lived in Brittany, Belgium then the USA. Has recorded with "The Kips Bay Ceilidh Band" and done solo albums.
- Ged Foley (guitar, vocal, Northumbrian pipes) - has recorded with the House Band, Patrick Street and Celtic Fiddle Festival
- Karine Polwart (lead vocals)
- Jim Barnes and Sylvia Barnes (bouzouki & vocal/dulcimer) - came to Battlefield Band via Kentigern. Jim died in 2004.
- Jamie McMenemy (bouzouki, vocal) - still a very active musician and co-founder of the Breton group Kornog, now lives in Brittany.
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