A SLEAT student is heading home this month to celebrate being one of Scotland’s finest young musicians.
Piper and fiddler Séamus Ó Baoighill, 19, was a finalist in BBC Radio Scotland’s 2015 Young Traditional Musician of the Year and returns home with the finalists and winners for a concert on December 13, as part of the Traditional Music and Song Association’s (TMSA) national tour and cultural exchange programme.
Séamus was a pupil of Sleat Primary School on Skye and has been learning to play the pipes and fiddle since the age of eight. Now he is a finalist in one of the most prestigious young trad music awards in Scotland and is keen to play a part in keeping the traditional music and culture of Skye and the Western Highlands alive.