Posts by Kenny Smith
School of Rock musical is just a class act
ANDREW Lloyd Webber isn’t a name that instantly springs to mind when you think of rock music. Nor, indeed, is Julian Fellowes, the creator of Downton Abbey. But, incredibly, these are two of the creative forces behind the musical School of Rock, currently performing at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow. I’ve always been more inclined…
Read MoreTickets on sale for Edinburgh’s Beltane Fire Festival
Edinburgh’s Beltane Fire Festival returns as a live, in-person event on Saturday 30 April, organisers announced today. Tickets for the event, which takes place on the city’s Calton Hill, go on sale this morning amid high demand. The Beltane Fire Festival is a dynamic reinterpretation of an ancient Celtic celebration of the return of summer…
Read MoreDistilleries are getting ready for the ‘Battle of the Drams’
Distilleries across the Malt Whisky Trail are rolling their sleeves up and preparing to fight it out at the ‘Battle of the Drams’ now that tickets to the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival are available to purchase. Some of the world’s finest whiskies will go head to head in a showdown with attendees getting to…
Read MoreRoyal Highland Show’s 200 year celebrations begin
The Royal Highland Show has begun marking its 200th anniversary with a series of immersive storytelling installations across Scotland. Taking place over four weeks in March, The Royal Highland Show Illuminated, produced in association with Turcan Connell, will project expressive imagery, woven together with never-before-seen treasures and untold stories from the Show archives, onto historic…
Read MoreCelebrating the potential of the Conservatoire
This week sees the launch of a new two-year pilot programme that will support the innovation potential of students, staff and recent alumni of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Innovation Studio will facilitate new opportunities for idea development and knowledge exchange at the RCS. Through a series of workshops, panels, online discussions, interdisciplinary collaborations and…
Read MoreSilent film festival returns to Scotland next week
There’s just seven days until Scotland’s only silent film festival will return to the Hippodrome in Bo’ness. On Wednesday 16 March, Scotland’s oldest purpose built cinema will host the opening of Hippodrome Silent Film Festival 2022. The star-studded programme is jam-packed with films featuring some of the biggest names of the silent era – Buster…
Read MoreA dramatic ballet in The Scandal at Mayerling
Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s iconic ballet about a dysfunctional royal family, depicting shocking real events from 1889, was boldly created in 1978 and is now reimagined and redesigned by Scottish Ballet, in a sumptuous production that is at once both intimate and epic. This is the first time Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s celebrated The Scandal at Mayerling…
Read MoreEl Niño and Abundance in a new art exhibition
A new exhibition at the Scottish Fisheries Museum is set to bust negative images of the extreme weather phenomenon El Niño. It shows the fishing and farming opportunities it has brought to the Sechura Desert in Northern Peru and exploring how other communities might take a similar adaptive approach to the effects of climate change.…
Read MoreBreakfast waffle sour beer is the latest from Vault City
Scotland’s scientists of sour beer have unveiled their latest creation – a beer that tastes just like breakfast. The Fruits of the forest triple-stacked breakfast waffle beer is the latest in a long list of experimental beers by Portobello’s Vault City. Although it’s full of fruit, co-founder Steven Smith-Hay, has urged beer aficionados to avoid…
Read MoreA brunch salad – with a coffee dressing
A Glencaple shop and café have worked with a Scottish coffee blender and roaster to create their own unique blend – and now they’re using it in a salad! Denyse Boyle, the manager of The Boathouse in Glencaple since August 2019, together with chef and co-manager Alanna Rogerson, helped create the special blend, currently available…
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