Scottish music, writing and theatre has been funded with more than £700,000 from the nation's main art funders.
Several of the 42 awards, made in September, go to musicians or musical projects, including funding for Honeyblood, James Yorkston, Les Sirenes, Concerto Caledonia and Alba Brass and a major project inspired by the innovative music of the late Martyn Bennett.
The awards, made through the body's Open Project Funding scheme, includes grants of up to £77,659 for festivals, musicians, visual artists, dancers and writers.
Be Charlotte, musician Charlotte Brimner, receives an award to embark on a tour of South East Asia and record her debut album in Thailand.
A grant of £56,500 has been given towards The Move Sessions - a "series of artistic residencies bringing together celebrated Scottish tradition bearers with progressive recording artists from around the world, to create collaborative new recordings of traditional Scottish songs."
The Move Sessions will be released on leading Scottish label Chemikal Underground.
The Move Sessions will celebrate both "the music of Martyn Bennett and Scottish oral tradition, and bring both to new audiences in Scotland and around the world" the award says.
Acclaimed Scottish folk band Lau has received funding to deliver musical workshops as part of their Lau-Land event, at Summerhall, Edinburgh.
The Edinburgh Independent & Radical Book Fair, which runs from 26-30 October, received £10,000 for a book festival "aimed at promoting small and independent presses and writing outwith the mainstream."
The five-day event will include readings, panel discussions, book launches, exhibition space, workshops etc. plus publishers' stalls including Scottish, self-published and international publishers and takes place in North Edinburgh in Out of the Blue Drill Hall in Leith.
Alan Morrison, head of music at Creative Scotland said: "Scotland’s music is world-class in its quality and diversity, and it’s great to see that reflected in the latest batch of Open Project Funding awards.
"While Honeyblood are flying the flag for Scottish indie-rock on a North American tour, folk veteran Dougie MacLean is bringing incredible talent to his local turf with the Perthshire Amber Festival and James Yorkston is encouraging fascinating collaborations in his home region with his Tae Sup Wi’ A Fifer series. "We’re also proud to be backing Be Charlotte’s debut album and getting behind an amazing talent who will be topping next year’s ones-to-watch lists north and south of the border."
Irvine-based illumination: Harbour Festival of Light, 30th November- 3rd December 2016, receives funding to stage a "four-day festival of creative light" to celebrate St. Andrew’s Day around the Scottish Maritime Museum and harbour side in Irvine.
In an award made to crafts, textile design collective Collect Scotland receive funding to stage an exhibition at The Lighthouse, Scotland's Centre for Design and Architecture, Glasgow in 2017.
Among the literature awards PEN Scotland receives the highest funding award, more than £77,000 towards their project Many Voices - a series of writing workshops bringing together Scottish and international writers to collaborate with "marginalised groups and communities across Scotland, exploring through writing and discussion the themes most important to them."
404 Ink Literary Magazine - a new magazine available in print and digitally, showcasing short stories, narrative non-fiction, poetry and comics in English and Scottish Gaelic also receives an award.
Non-fiction writers Cal Flyn and Julie Mcdowall receive literature awards to support new works.
Flyn said: "I'm delighted and grateful to have received funding towards an ambitious new project. Support like this from Creative Scotland makes an enormous difference in the career of a young writer like me, not only in terms of the finance, but by giving a vote of confidence."
Open Project Funding awards are made in the range £1,000 to £100,000.
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