AS one of Scotland's finest traditional music groups, Breabach are used to travelling around the world.

Their latest project, though, has more of an international flavour than ever before - as they've teamed up with musicians from Aboriginal and Maori cultures for a special Commonwealth Games show.

The Boomerang gig, which comes to Glasgow Green tonight, will see Breabach's Scottish flavour mixed with acts like Moana and the Tribe from New Zealand and Shellie Morris and Casey Donovan from Australia, amongst others.

The Scottish fivesome travelled to New Zealand earlier this year to begin work on the project, and thankfully get on well with their contemporaries from the start.

"We all connected on a personal level, which meant the rehearsal process was pretty smooth, and it was just a case of each element of the project bringing in a selection of materials, and then we threw it all into a pot," says Breabach's bassist, James Lindsay. "We looked at what worked best together and what could flow together, so it was a pretty organic process."

After being unveiled at gigs in New Zealand and Australia, the collaboration has now come to Scotland, with it being performed at the Commonwealth Games Festival 2014 opening ceremony party last night at the Old Fruitmarket, before tonight's free Glasgow Green gig tonight.

There were some difficulties in merging so many cultures together, however.

"None of us had a grasp on the other's traditional culture, so that took a bit of time to learn certain language and rhythm things that were different to our own," recalls James.

"Some of the instruments that Horomona Horo, of the Maori element, used had tones we weren't used to hearing, as they went out the Western musical scale.

"So that was interesting seeing how we could integrate that into our own music, and blend it with the bagpipes."

Yet James believes that the three musical cultures have plenty of shared common ground, too.

"They've all suffered some suppression as cultures, whether it's a song, dance or language - these cultures have been somewhat repressed," he says. "But there's always been a push to bring these traditions out as well and have them move with the times, and they're all having a resurgence just now, especially Scottish traditional music as it's taken a massive step up over the past 10 years or so."

Boomerang isn't Breabach's only contribution to the Commonwealth Games.

The group, who last year released their fourth album Urlar, will also be headlining a gig at the Kelvingrove Bandstand next Wednesday.

And the bassist is looking forward to playing at the reopened venue, especially as he regularly passes it on his bike.

"I've been cycling past it for years now thinking it'd be good if they did it up and now they've finally sorted it out, so it'll be great getting to play on that stage," says James, who stays in Whiteinch.

"It's a really good space. It already feels like there's a party spirit in place around Glasgow [for the Games], just a real buzz from walking around the town. It's really exciting and should be a fun couple of weeks."

The band themselves will still be going full speed once the Games are over, though. Formed back in 2005, their reputation as one of Scotland's finest Celtic bands continues to grow, and they netted the Live Act of the Year prize at last year's Scots Trad Music Awards.

They're already planning a return to the studio, too.

"We won't be recording till next year, but we're aiming to have a new record out sometime in 2015," adds James.

"Up until then we'll just be gigging around, we'll be in Austria for a few weeks and then hopefully we'll get down under again before the year's out."

l Breabach, Glasgow Green, tonight, and Kelvingrove Bandstand, Wednesday. Entry is free to both shows.