A promising Aberdeenshire folk singer will launch a campaign to fund her debut album with a concert in Aberdeen this weekend.
Iona Fyfe is holding a concert at the city’s St John’s Episcopal Church in the city on Saturday as she attempts to raise around £10,000 to make her debut album.
Doors open at 7pm, with the concert starting at 7.30pm.
There is no entry fee and audience members can donate as much as they wish at the end of the gig depending on how they enjoyed the performance, CDs with some of Ms Fyfe’s other work will also be on sale.
The concert coincides with Ms Fyfe, from Huntly, launching a crowdfunding page online to help her try to reach the £10,000 milestone.
The 19-year-old, who is in her second year studying traditional music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, hopes the people of the north-east will support her.
She said: “Hopefully people come to the gig.
“There is a really nice folk music community in Aberdeen so I want to see some familiar faces.
“If I can show people my talents on Saturday maybe it will convince them to donate.
“There is a lot of really encouraging people in the north-east so hopefully they get behind me.”
Ms Fyfe, who was also a finalist on this year’s BBC Radio Scotland Traditional Young Musician of the Year, explained that she requires such a significant amount of money because she is not signed to a major record label.
She added: “To make a really good first album if you are not signed to one of the big record labels you are looking at the best part of £10,000, which is a crazy amount of money.”
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