Jazz vocalists Sophie Bancroft and Gina Rae, drummer Tom Bancroft and bassist Tom Lyne all live and work out of Pathhead and have children at local primary and secondary schools. Folk accordionist and singer Inge Thomson and her accordion playing partner Martin Green live just across the road from fiddler and step dancer Amy Geddes, Scottish dance band pianist and fiddler Russell Hunter and swing guitarist and songwriter Sandy Wright. Meantime, singer-songwriter Karine Polwart and her drummer/producer husband Mattie Foulds live only a few miles down the A68.

PMC member/organiser Sophie Bancroft says: “There’s a really amazing concentration of fantastic musicians living in and around Pathhead but you wouldn’t know it. So we got together and thought, well, there isn’t much happening here so maybe we can do something about it. It would be brilliant to have more music events in the village not only for adults but for kids and young people in the area too.”

PMC is hosting a free family friendly concert and ceilidh at Pathhead Village Hall from 3 to 6pm on Saturday 30th December. The multi-talented collective members will be strutting their stuff on stage whilst serving tea, juice and mince pies to anyone who fancies dropping by during the course of the afternoon.

Though the collective already has fledgling New Year plans to set up a community choir, drum and DJ workshops for teenagers and regular family ceilidhs, the musicians involved really want to know what the people of the village themselves want.