Last month the Royal National Mod winning choir shared the bill at Eden Court Theatre with BBC Radio 3 World Music Award winners the Warsaw Village Band, but next week takes them into more uncharted territory when they become back vocalists for one of Inverness’s most popular bands, Lowtide Revelry.

Thursday’s show, which also features another leading light of the local music scene, High Lonesome, marks the launch of Lowtide Revelry’s debut album and Inverness Gaelic Choir will be on stage to help recreate one of the tracks from the CD, “Letter from the Gallows”. “It’s a pretty epic song and the guys wanted to have a choir backing them up,” choir conductor Jamie MacGregor explained. “It’s pretty exciting. We had a practice last night and it sounded really good.

Before we were just singing along to rough recordings on the demo.” MacGregor, who counts himself as a fan of Lowtide Revelry, was happy to offer the services of his singers. “It’s interesting for the choir to try different things,” he added. “With the Polish concert we had always spoken about doing concerts just as the choir, but that was primarily to do with Highland 2007.

“One of the group, Norman MacArthur, had written this song about a plane flying from Europe back to the Highlands and flying over all these cultures. The idea was that we would have a multi-cultural concert, but in the end we just did it with the Polish group.” With the choir’s calendar geared towards the National Mod in October, MacGregor is keen to find other outlets for performance, especially in circumstances which avoid the pressure the choir faces in competitions.