In Yerevan, Armenia's capital city, ten musicians are gearing up to travel over 3,000 miles to Scotland, to perform together for the first time at the biggest cultural event on the planet: the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Their event, A Long Way From Armenia, was a late addition to the Fringe line-up, with registration only finalized in mid-June, after the printing of the official program.

“We want to be the first delegation of Armenian musicians to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the world's largest arts festival”, said Raffi Joe, one of the four act line-up.

The group, comprising four separate and very diverse musical acts, ranging from hard rock to folk, aim to finance their journey to Scotland using the popular crowd-funding website Indiegogo, with a campaign that launched just yesterday. They only have 8 days to reach their target of £7,706.17.

The line-up of the all-Armenian event will be The Bambir, Raffi Joe, Hrach Mackoushian and Carahunge.

“What’s quite special about these bands and people is that they were the ones willing to take the risk,” said Hrach Mackoushian, one of the artists to perform,” and what unites all of them is their passion and motivation.”

The youngest members of the group, both in folk-band Carahunge, are Harut Panosyan and Anna Harutyunyan. They are 19 and 24 years old respectively, don't speak English and have never left Armenia before.

“It's a leap of faith”, says Hrach Mackoushian, “Those musicians are really devoted...People have faith in their music and that's what's going to take them to Scotland.”