In a tented village at the edge of the small town of Fochabers, the Moray Speyfest materialises for a few days each summer. Fiddlers and pipers come from...
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Kids' Stuff
, Entertainment
, Music
, Spectacle
, Business
, Culture
The Aberdeen International Youth Festival showcases burgeoning talent from around the world, and is one of the highlights of the cultural calendar in...
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Spectacle
, Theatre & Film
, Kids' Stuff
, Entertainment
, Culture
, Dance
, Music
Turning politics into a party sounds like a neat trick, but it has a serious intent. This is all about giving people a glimpse of how government works....
In the broad valley of the River Tweed, ringed about with bold hills, Innerleithen is a small and picturesque town close to the famous historic Traquair...
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Music
, Entertainment
, Spectacle
, Culture
Scottish pipe bands from around the world perform daily for three hours in the middle of Glasgow during the annual Piping Live event. The George Square...
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Spectacle
, Culture
, Entertainment
, Music
On Saturdays and Sundays throughout September, some of Scotland's most interesting buildings are open to the public free of charge. 48 countries across...
Mela is a style of festival that first came to Britain in the late eighties and was introduced to Edinburgh in 1995 by members of the Bangladeshi, Indian,...
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Food & Drink
, Kids' Stuff
, Dance
, Theatre & Film
, Music
Fest' n' Furious made its first appearance in 2004, featuring the best of Scotland's traditional and contemporary music. Beside top concert acts, the...
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Entertainment
, Spectacle
, Music
, Exhibitions
What makes the Islay Jazz Festival special is Islay itself; the landscape provides the dramatic backdrop to the occasion, with concerts held in all kinds...
Merchant City is Glasgow's cultural quarter, a grid of rejuvenated streets around Trongate which is now home to restaurants, bars, designer retail outlets,...
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Theatre & Film
, Exhibitions
, Home & Fashion
, Music
, Comedy
Who says science is not fun? TechFest sets out an extensive programme of events and activities designed to inspire, astonish, excite and above all to...
The Braemar Gathering has been going for approximately 200 years in its present form, but its origins go back about 700 more. It is a strongly traditional...
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Sport
, Dance
, Culture
, History
, Spectacle
The Music Prize competition is Aberdeen's classical answer to Pop Idol, in which a list of some 400 hopeful composers are whittled down to just five....
One of the biggest art fairs in the UK outside London, Glasgow is the place to pick out and perhaps to buy that priceless work of the future, or at least...
In a departure from the conventional musical festival format, Triptych brings 200 artists to three different cities over the course of five days, drawing...
Before the Romans divided the seasons into a calendar of 12 months, the Celtic year was marked by four Quarter Days: Beltane, Lughnasadh ('Luna-sa'),...
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History
, Dance
, Religion
, Spectacle
, Culture
, Music
The highlight of Scotland's jumping season is the Scottish Grand National, held a couple of weeks after the Aintree equivalent south of the border in...
Scotland's National Street Arts Festival, Big in Falkirk, packs a lot into two days: spectacular outdoor theatre, international street arts, live music,...
This is the biggest performing arts festival for children and young people in the UK, annually offering around 75 performances for three to 14 year olds...
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Entertainment
, Theatre & Film
, Spectacle
, Kids' Stuff
Established in 1979, the Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival aims to bring international performers to a region with scattered rural communities that...
After a spell in the north east of Scotland, 'Britain's Most Beautiful Run' returned to its Edinburgh birthplace in 2005. The 10km (6 miles) Great Caledonian...
Leith, Edinburgh's port on the banks of the Firth of Forth, puts on a big show with walks, talks, exhibitions, sports, drama and theatre, music and dancing,...
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Exhibitions
, Food & Drink
, Dance
, Sport
, Art & Literature
, Theatre & Film
, Culture
, Entertainment
, Kids' Stuff
, Music
A ghoulish nine days in Britain's capital of spooks and spirits, Mary King's Ghost Fest aims to make spines tingle in the alleyways and crannies of Old...
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Entertainment
, Theatre & Film
, History
, Culture
Word takes place over three days at the charming and historic King's College Campus of the University of Aberdeen and at venues throughout the city. More...
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Exhibitions
, Entertainment
, Art & Literature
As has been proven in outdoor venues around the world, Shakespeare plays work very well in the open air - and Glasgow's famous Botanic Gardens provide...
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History
, Art & Literature
, Theatre & Film
This old fashioned community festival and street party takes place in a district of old stone houses and broad streets among parks and open spaces. It...
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Entertainment
, Kids' Stuff
, Music
, Food & Drink
, History
, Gay & Lesbian
The Aberdeen Highland Games include a special event - a British championship 100m sprint - together with a mix of all the traditional games such as Putting...
The Music Prize competition is Aberdeen's classical answer to Pop Idol, in which a list of some 400 hopeful composers are whittled down to just five....
Themes:
Entertainment
, Music
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