The Agar Trust celebrated 10 years of operation on 31st August, with a wonderful Showcase in Inverness, featuring award holders past and present. We were delighted to meet youngsters and their families from Orkney, Isle of Lewis, Moffat, Drumnadrochit, Tain, and Forres, who played, sang and spoke about their lives, travelling with music. Over the last ten years we have made 450 awards and it is a delight to see new names appearing, so music in rural Scotland continues to flourish, in spite of a very difficult climate for the arts. Clearly the Trust still has a role to play.