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Scotland’s top musicians will tour the Highlands & Islands with Blas Festival, 2-10 September The Highlands & Islands will see a flurry of musical and cultural activity from this Friday (2nd September) until 10th September as the Blas Festival hits the road for the 18th year, visiting village halls and concert venues across the region, as well as […]

Celtic Connections, the UK’s premiere celebration of roots music, is set to showcase a series of special concerts this autumn. Best known as the largest winter music festival in Europe, Celtic Connections is closing out the 2022 programme with three special performances. The rescheduled shows, which were due to be part of the festival in […]

Tickets for a vibrant programme of concerts, shows, ceilidhs, competitions and exhibitions taking place as part of this year’s Royal National Mòd in Perth go on sale today.  Audiences can secure tickets via Horsecross Arts for a host of performances showcasing and celebrating the very best in Gaelic and Scottish traditional music and culture between the 14th – 22nd October […]

Ahead of its fortieth anniversary in 2023, the Orkney Folk Festival has recently welcomed a new festival producer – with responsibility for the festival’s artistic direction. Craig Corse, from Kirkwall, has taken the reins of the award-winning festival, having served on the committee in a variety of roles since 2007. He takes the baton from […]

A multimedia performance celebrating the land and people of Coigach and Assynt will be one of the centrepieces of this year’s Blas Festival. Talamh Beò – Living Land, commissioned by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape Partnership Scheme, is a multimedia work featuring responses to the place in music and language, especially Gaelic, reflecting long-rooted families, […]

Speactram is the exciting and innovative new album from Marcas Mac an Tuairneir. Set for release on Friday 29 July 2022, this new body of work is a watershed moment for the Gaelic music scene as it revives the Gaelic popular music tradition, bringing it back into the spotlight whilst further introducing LGBTQI+ narratives into the traditional and contemporary […]

This September, join Dandelion for a major free music and arts festival with live music programmed by Celtic Connections Creative Director Donald Shaw. Dandelion is a creative programme bringing together growing, science, art and music for a series of events and activities across Scotland in 2022. After the success of the first Festival in Glasgow’s […]

This year’s Linlithgow Folk Festival will take place from the 15th to the 18th of September. First held in 1999, the annual celebration of traditional music, dance and song in the Royal Burgh is now firmly established on the traditional music scene throughout the UK and it attracts visitors from far and wide. Pre-pandemic, the […]

The music collected by Eliza Jane Ross will be performed during the 18th Blas Festival this September A collection of Highland music, left behind in the library of Raasay House in the 1800s has been given a fresh lease of life in a new edition of the collection by renowned piper, Dr Angus Macdonald. The Eliza […]