ADRIAN Telfer is a solo acoustic artist based on the Black Isle. A range of influences from The Levellers to Damien Rice influenced the songs on his first CD 'Straight From Nowhere'.

AYRE is an alternative rock band based in Balintore. We play our own original material, which sounds something like Semisonic or Barenaked Ladies, but we also play a few covers when we need to.

BACK in the late sixties and early seventies is when I started my music career working in numerous local bands right up to the late eighties covering chart hits.

FIONA Mackenzie, a native of Morayshire and graduate of Aberdeen University, now living in Dingwall, learned Gaelic as an adult and is now employed as the Mairi Mhor Gaelic Song Fellow for Highland Council.

GRAHAM Muir is a self-taught guitarist based just outside Dingwall. His own compositions are moving and melodic as are his arrangements of popular songs.

MY home roots are in the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. From an early age I sang my heart out whenever I was on my own in these open landscapes, particularly when sent to fetch some of my father's many sheep from the moors.

THE Ross and Cromarty area of the Highlands has a long tradition of nurturing traditional musicians; especially young musicians and the Highland Pipes and Drums are at the heart of this tradition.

SPIT-DIS consist of four talented MCs from the Highlands of Scotland who make music at the local Rise2Red recording studio.