To celebrate the ongoing work of the Traditional Music and Song Association founded in 1966, the TMSA will be showcasing 9 of Scotland’s finest young musicians in a nationwide tour this month, from the Highlands to the Borders, and culminating in a fabulous night of music as part of the Fest’n’Furious 2007 event in Dundee. The Young Trad Tour will be featuring in a double-bill musical extravaganza with the Red Hot Chili Pipers. Stuart Cassells who leads the Red Hot Chillis was a previous winner of the Young Traditional Musician of the Year and his career has rocketed from the many opportunities that have come his way since.

This year’s young musicians were in the finals of the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year held at the Celtic Connections festival in January, where Gaelic singer Catriona Watt 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 local hero Innes Watson on guitar and Mhairi Hall on keyboard.

The Dundee event takes place on Friday 28 September at 8pm, and tickets are available from Dundee City Box Office on 01382 434940.

The TMSA gratefully acknowledges support from the Scottish Arts Council for this tour would also like to thank the Stagecoach Group as principal sponsors for this event and the Scottish Building Society. For more info about the TMSA Young Trad Tour and the Fest 'n' Furious 2007 programme, visit http://www.festnfurious.co.uk