Fantoosh! are Jenni Borthwick (fiddle), Pauline Salmond (cello) and Graham MacDonald (piano). Their music combines traditional tunes with jazz harmonies and unusual contemporary arrangements and they also play many of their own compositions.

Since forming in 2005 Fantoosh! have performed across Scotland. They have played at the Edinburgh Folk Club and the Wee Folk Club at the Royal Oak . They performed several concerts with Edinburgh duo Fair Witness both at the Lot in Edinburgh as part of the 2007 Fringe Festival and at the 2007 Brechin Festival of the Arts. Other collaborations include a concert with the Shona Mooney Trio in The Wynd Theatre in Melrose. Fantoosh! won the Culburnie Trophy for Best Performance at the 2007 Denholm Folk Festival performed at the Innerleithen Music Festival and at Fiddle 2007 in Edinburgh . The band were highly commended for their performance in the Danny Kyle Open Stage at Celtic Connections 2006 and other gigs have included 3 sell-out concerts for Penicuik Community Arts Association/Penicuik North Kirk. Fantoosh! have a lot of experience as a ceilidh band and have played for weddings and parties throughout Lothian and the Borders. As well as performing all the players in Fantoosh! teach their instrument in Midlothian, Fife and the Borders. Pauline has tutored on Alasdair Fraser's fiddle week at Sabhal mor Ostaig on Skye and Jenni has taken fiddle workshops at the Innerleithen music festival in 2007 and 2008. Fantoosh!'s debut album Skye High (recorded February 2006) is available from CODA Records in Edinburgh and they hope to record a second album in 2009/10.

Jenni grew up playing Scottish traditional music. She studied classical violin at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, but has never lost her passion for the music of Scotland. Jenni is an experienced fiddler and plays regularly as a concert performer and for dancing. She is also a qualified Suzuki violin teacher and works as a violin instructor in the Scottish Borders.

Pauline studied classical cello at the Douglas Academy in Glasgow, and the RNCM in Manchester. She went on to work as a District Community Musician in Norway and then organised and taught music at St Mary’s School, Melrose. Pauline is a more recent convert to the world of traditional music and has discovered a deep affinity with the music of her home country. She really enjoys working on arrangements and playing music which develop the role of cello within traditional music. She currently works as a cello instructor Fife in addition to regular performing.

Graham is an adaptable musician who can turn his hand to a wide variety of musical styles. From a young age, Graham was drawn to the piano and went to study at Northern College, Aberdeen where he was awarded a scholarship to the North East of Scotland Music School. Graham now teaches class music at St. David’s High School, Dalkeith and has recently set up the Penicuik Music School where he teaches piano privately. He regularly performs solo piano recitals, works as an accompanist, plays in his local church music group and tunes pianos!