Belladrum Tartan Heart Music Festival and BBC ALBA Talent Search, and Conditions
1. This talent search is open to artists who reside in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (an area of Scotland broadly covering the Scottish Highlands, plus Orkney, Shetland and the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles).
2. You must be 18 or over to apply for this talent search. We may ask you to provide us with proof of age using a valid form of ID, such as a driving licence or port.
3. Solo artists studying or living elsewhere but with a permanent residence in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland are eligible to apply.
4. At least 50% of band should have a home address within the Highlands and Islands.
5. Entrants can enter by sending a short bio (500 words max) and links to their music or live performances to tartanheart@bbc.co.uk
6. A judging consisting of representatives of the BBC, the Belladrum Tartan Heart Music Festival and an independent musician appearing at the festival will shortlist our finalists.
7. A public vote hosted on the Belladrum Tartan Heart Music Festival website found at https://tartanheartfestival.com/ will then determine the winner of the talent search.
8. The winning act will be given the chance to perform on the Hot House Arena at the Belladrum Tartan Heart Music Festival on Thursday 31 July 2025. There will also be an additional opportunity to record an acoustic session in the BBC ALBA studio on-site at the festival. Please ensure that you or all band are available on this date before applying for this opportunity.
9. Previous winners of this opportunity are ineligible to enter this year’s talent search.
10. The talent search is not open to employees, agents or contractors of the BBC and the Belladrum Tartan Heart Music Festival, or their immediate families or any other person connected or involved with the talent search.
11. Applications will open on Tuesday 27 May at 09:00 and will close at 23:59 on Monday 9 June. It is expected that the public vote will open on Friday 13 June, and will close at 09:00 on Friday 20 June.
Online Voting and Conditions
1. You can take part by accessing the relevant web page on the Belladrum Tartan Heart Music Festival website found here: https://tartanheartfestival.com/ You will find the question and a list of alternative answers. You can your vote by electronically selecting the option you wish to vote for.
2. Any votes ed outside the announced voting times, which will be listed online, will not count.
3. This is not a competition and there will be no monetary prize for anyone taking part. The BBC will endeavour to work alongside the winning act, however the BBC are under no obligation to broadcast filmed performances should certain circumstances arise or where editorial standards are not met. However the vote result stands.
4. The number of times you can vote may be restricted. The presence of a cap to voting and what that limit is will be made clear for each vote. Some votes may be restricted geographically to within the UK only. If you are not in the right area you will not see the vote.
5. Live results may be displayed on the Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival website found here https://tartanheartfestival.com during the vote window. These should not be taken as an indicator of the final published results, but merely as a snapshot for interest. The BBC or the Belladrum Tartan Heart Music Festival will announce the final result on-air and/or online when voting is closed and the actual result is known.
6. The BBC and the Belladrum Tartan Heart Music Festival reserves the right to disqualify entries or suspend voting if it has reasonable grounds to suspect that fraudulent voting has occurred or if it considers there has been any attempt to rig the voting. The BBC and the Belladrum Tartan Heart Music Festival has the right to substitute an alternative selection method at its absolute discretion. For the purposes of investigating possible voting irregularities when voting, the Belladrum Tartan Heart Music Festival may use cookies, log IP addresses or analyse the information. The Belladrum Tartan Heart Music Festival will not publish this information or provide it to anyone without permission, except where required for enforcement of these . Further information relating to the Belladrum Tartan Heart Music Festival can be found here https://tartanheartfestival.com/privacy-policy
7. If, for any reason, the online voting system fails, the vote may be suspended or a contingency plan may be actioned.
8. The BBC and the Belladrum Tartan Heart Music Festival reserves the right to change, cancel or suspend this vote at any time.
9. The Belladrum Tartan Heart Music Festival, its sub-contractors, subsidiaries and/or agencies cannot accept any responsibility whatsoever for any technical failure or malfunction or any other problem with any system, server, provider or otherwise which may result in any vote not being received by the Belladrum Tartan Heart Music Festival, not properly ed or recorded.
10. Please note that BBC, BBC Group or the Belladrum Tartan Heart Music Festival employees, or anyone who is directly connected in any way with the associated content or the vote, is not eligible to vote.
11. The voting will be hosted on the Belladrum Tartan Heart Music Festival website found at https://tartanheartfestival.com/ and the voting process accords with the BBC's Code of Conduct for Competitions and Voting, details of which can be found on the BBC's Standards and Guidelines website at /editorialguidelines/guidance/code-of-conduct
12. Online votes are subject to the Belladrum Tartan Heart Music Festival found at https://tartanheartfestival.com/privacy-policy and, if relevant, the BBC Privacy and Cookies Policy found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/usingthebbc/privacy/privacy-policy, more information about Cookies can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/usingthebbc/cookies/ and BBC online of Use found at http://bbc.co.uk/usingthebbc//-of-use
13. These and Conditions are governed by the law of England and Wales.
