TMSA to showcase 9 young Scottish Folk musicians in September tour...

To celebrate the ongoing work of the Traditional Music and Song organisation founded in 1966, the TMSA will be showcasing 9 of Scotland’s finest young musicians in a nation wide tour in September.

Six of the young musicians were in the finals of the Hands Up for Trad and BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year held at the Celtic Connections festival in January where Gaelic singer, Catriona Watt (pictured) was declared the winner. The other musicians on the TMSA Young Trad Tour 2007 are Edinburgh based fiddler, Mike Vass, Gaelic singer Darren Maclean, Glasgow based button accordionist Martin Hunter, Canadian born piper, Calum MacCrimmon and flautist Calum Stewart from Garmouth in Morayshire. Accompanists this year will be Innes Watson on guitar and Mhairi Hall on keyboard.

The tour will also include last year’s winner, fiddler Shona Mooney from the Borders who has found her career has rocketed from the many opportunities offered since winning last year’s competition. Tour dates:

Sept 6 Culloden Academy, Inverness
Sept 7 Seaboard Memorial Hall, Balintore, Ross Shire
Sept 8, Lochcarron Village Hall,
(all of these concerts are run in partnership with the BLAS festival)
Sept 9 Strachur Village Hall, Lochgoilhead, Argyll,
Sept 21 Fochabers Public Institute, Fochabers
Sept 22 Recital Room @City Halls, Glasgow
Sept 24 The Sage Gateshead, Gateshead
Sept 25 Regal Community Theatre, Bathgate, West Lothian
Sept 26 Buccleuch Centre, Langholm, Dumfries and Galloway
Sept 27 Heart of Hawick, Hawick Scottish Borders
Sept 28 Caird Hall, Dundee

Visit: tmsa.org.uk

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