Their guitars in the baggage hold, two musicians are winging their way to Scotland to represent Dunedin.
Dunedin musicians Robert Scott and Jay Clarkson left Dunedin yesterday to perform six gigs, including the Celtic Connections Music Festival in Glasgow.
The 10-day tour was designed to tighten the bilateral ties between Dunedin and Scotland.
A swap of Dunedin and Scottish musicians began when Dunedin musician Jake Cropley performed at the Glasgow festival in 2014.
Last November, the British Council worked with Dunedin's Simon Vare and Auckland's Gareth Farry, Dunedin City Council and Creative Scotland to bring Edinburgh artists Withered Hand (Dan Willson), Emelle (Craig Lithgow) and Kevin Williamson to perform in Dunedin.
Mr Scott's and Ms Clarkson's other Scottish gigs include performances at folk clubs, an arts centre and outdoors.
Mr Scott was unsure if he would attempt the local dialect when performing Scottish songs.
"I'll just wing it and see what comes out,'' he decided on checking in his guitar and backpack at Dunedin Airport yesterday.
Mr Scott knows the accent well, being schooled in Scotland in 1969.
He toured the country with The Bats in 1986, 1988 and 1992.
The Bats' frontman recalled a cramped Glasgow gig in 1988.
"I was playing right by the edge of the bar and there was a local who wouldn't move from his spot. I had to play without knocking into him.''
Ms Clarkson has never visited Scotland but her ancestors fought at the Battle of Culloden - "with Bonnie Prince Charlie'' - near Inverness.
She and Mr Scott have been friends since flatting together in Christchurch in 1983.
