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22 March 2010

CAITHNESS COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL RETURNS TO BBC ALBA

BBC ALBA is delighted to announce that the Caithness Country Music Festival 2010 will return to the channel.

The Northern Nashville Country Music festival, which takes place in Halkirk from 2 – 4 April, will be recorded by mneTV for broadcast on BBC ALBA later this year.

The 2010 Caithness event, which will be the 7th Festival, will feature a wide range of International artists including Leona Williams (USA), Brendan Quinn (Ireland), Thomas Maguire and Fhiona Ennis (Ireland), Amber Digby (USA), Rick Trevino (USA), Red Jenkins (Sweden) and Lemon Grass from England.

The festival also continues to promote the best of Country Music from Scotland with home-grown talent this year including The Jacks, Slange Ava and Manson Grant and The Dynamos.

Christine Gray, Chairperson of the Northern Nashville Country Music Club said “The Northern Nashville Country Music Festival committee was delighted to have BBC ALBA broadcast the event in 2009. The feedback of the coverage of last year’s festival has been very positive and has helped to boost ticket sales for this year’s event. We are delighted to see the cameras back at Halkirk for this year which thanks to BBC ALBA, will again reach a wider audience.

“The Northern Nashville Festival committee aims to provide a mix of top quality performers from home and abroad every year and we are confident that we will have a great festival again this year for everyone who attends and all who see the festival on BBC ALBA.”

Alan Esslemont, Head of Content for BBC ALBA said: “We are delighted to be able to showcase country music through our coverage of this exciting festival and we are confident that we will have programmes which will both attract country music fans and add to our strong music schedule on BBC ALBA.”

Country music lovers will also have the opportunity to look back at the Northern Nashville festival from 2009 as BBC ALBA repeats three shows from the festival. Beginning on Friday 9th April at 21.00, Ceòl Country will feature top acts from 2009 such as Eamonn McCann, Robert Mizzell and Michelle Wright.