Music
Skerryvore to headline gig at Portsoy Boat Festival
Organisers of the annual Scottish Traditional Boat Festival in Portsoy have announced award winning Scottish celtic rock group Skerryvore will headline next year’s event. Twice winners of Scotland’s Traditional Music ‘Live Act of the Year’ Award, in 2011 and 2016, the band will headline the Friday Night Gig at the Wally Green on 19 June…
Read MoreBringing a symphony orchestra to the people
The Nevis Ensemble takes its 40-piece symphony orchestra to venues around Glasgow and Ayrshire this month. Between 6-8 December, they will be joined by international mezzo soprano Andrea Baker. Conducted by Jon Hargreaves, this relentlessly energetic group will give 18 concerts in public spaces and community venues along the Ayrshire coast and Glasgow including schools,…
Read More70 years of the military tattoo – tickets on sale now
Tickets for the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2020 show are on sale now. Tickets for The Platinum Edition went on sale from 10am today, Monday, 2 December, as celebrations for the momentous 70-year anniversary year begin. Following military contributions to the Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama in 1948 and 1949, the Tattoo has…
Read MoreMilitary tattoo tickets go on sale next week
The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo has announced tickets for the 2020 show – ‘The Platinum Edition’ – will go on sale from 10am on Monday, 2 December, as celebrations for the momentous 70-year anniversary year begin. Following military contributions to the Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama in 1948 and 1949, the Tattoo has…
Read MoreTickets on sale now for Piping Inverness 2020
After the success of 2019’s inaugural Piping Inverness which attracted over 17,500 visitors and over 100 pipe bands from around the world, Piping Inverness 2020 is set to be even bigger and better. Over a hundred pipe bands and thousands of pipers, drum majors and Highland dancers will descend on Inverness again in June for Piping Inverness 2020. Incorporating…
Read MoreCaledonia’s calling for songwriter Dougie MacLean
Perthshire’s Dougie MacLean is known the world over for his anthem born out of homesickness, but Scotland’s finest singer-songwriter has many more strings to his bow… It’s funny how life can come full circle. I grew up here in Butterstone, by Dunkeld and went to the old village school – I went to it, and…
Read MoreInterest in St Andrew’s Day is growing globally
Interest in Scotland’s patron saint’s national day is on the increase. Data provider SEMrush has been analaysing online searches, and finds that interest in Scotland increases ahead of St Andrew’s Day on 30 November. SEMrush analysed the most searched St Andrews Day queries that the Scottish public and the world have been looking up online.…
Read MoreMeet the ex-gamekeeper who gifted Billy Connolly a banjo
Euan F Cattanach hails from a long line of retired gamekeepers. Here, though, is one gamekeeper who has a few extra strings to his bow. Working from his shed in Aberfeldy in Perthshire, he is one of a few ‘band of brothers’ making banjos. His workshop recently had no other than Billy Connolly dropping by…
Read MoreBlas Festival concerts to explore love and loss in Gaelic song
This year’s commission at Blas Festival, Gaol no Gonadh?, will see three artists featured in a series of concerts take a light-hearted look at Gaelic songs of love and loss. Gaol no Gonadh? which means love or loss, will feature Gaelic singers and musicians, Rachel Walker and Ewen Henderson sing some of the most beautiful…
Read MoreOur top ten of the best groups to come from Scotland
The list is long but our shortlist of the best tartan bands is sure to be a conversation starter. Is your favourite here? 1. The Proclaimers Identical twins Craig and Charlie Reid were born in Leith but it was while living in Auchtermuchty in 1983 that they formed the band. Their debut album This Is the…
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