Summary
CAUGHT in the act are the latest bunch of alarmingly talented young singers and musicians to cut a live album under the auspices of the Traditional Music and Song Association of Scotland. Launched during the freshly subsided Celtic Connections spree, TMSA Young Trad Tour 2007 - Live captures the winner and finalists of last year's BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician competition on stages from Fochabers to Hawick, during the TMSA autumn tour which is now an annual event.
The result is some quality music-making, from the fine Gaelic singing of the 2007 competition winner, Catriona Watt from Lewis, to the fast-rising young Border fiddler Shona Mooney, who won in 2006, plus an impressive clutch of finalists such as piper Calum MacCrimmon, now a member of the powerful Highland band Breabach, and guitarist and fiddler Innes Watson, these days cropping up in the Fred Morrison Band, the Border Fiddlers and the Lori Watson Three.See the full content of this document
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Youthful Connections to the Auld Traditions
The TMSA's national director, Kay Thomson, herself a singer, regards the new recording as the best yet since the association ...
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