The competition will start at 7:30pm at Eden Court, Inverness on Saturday 21 June and those interested in Celtic music can come along.
It will also be available to watch at the Nòs Ur website www.nos-ur.eu and people can vote by web poll or by text.
Meaning ‘New Style’ in Gaelic, the Nòs Ùr competition expects songs to be entered from languages such as Scottish Gaelic, Scots, Ulster Scots, Irish, Manx, Welsh, Cornish and Breton. The winner of the West European competition will be entered into the final of the pan-European Liet Lavlut competition which takes place in Lulea, Sweden this October.
The contest is the only song competition of its kind in Europe and follows a similar format as the Eurovision Song Contest with singers and bands representing a particular country, or in this case a minority language.
By gathering interest from singers from minority languages communities, the competition aims to promote the cultural and musical diversity to a large international audience.