Singer's daughter backs festival

Rosanne Cash is lending her voice to support The Big Tent

The daughter of the late country music legend Johnny Cash is to launch the countdown to Scotland's first environmental festival in Fife.

US country and western singer Rosanne Cash is visiting Fife on Wednesday in a bid to raise awareness for The Big Tent 2006 event.

Ms Cash is to tour Falkland Palace, where the festival is to be held, with its hereditary keeper, Ninian Stuart.

The event will take place from 30 June until 2 July.

Johnny Cash visited Fife several times in the 1990s after meeting Mr Stuart's father, the late Major Michael Crichton-Stuart, on a transatlantic flight.

The meeting led to research that unearthed the Cash family's Fife roots and evidence that the family's name came from the lands of Cash by Strathmiglo on Falkland Estate.