Posts Tagged ‘Aberdeen’
Take the plunge at the Angus Tour’s best dooking spots
Angus locals are inviting like minded cold-water swimmers and dookers to enjoy some of the most beautiful salt and freshwater spots on The Angus Tour. The Angus Tour Dookers Facebook group has been created as a tool to plan meets, share tips and build a community for those keen to dook in Angus but unsure…
Read MoreSkerryvore will push the boat out at festival
Scottish trad rockers Skerryvore will ensure that the Scottish Traditional Boat Festival hits the high notes when it returns this summer. The Celtic rockers will honour a pledge made back in 2019 to perform as headliners at the festival’s opening concert. They will finally play the live stage at Portsoy’s Big Gig on Back Green…
Read MoreBeer brand doing its bit for the planet and charity
Beer brand Brewgooder has announced new contract deals with two of Scotland’s most renowned craft brewers. It is working with Fierce Brewing and Williams Brothers as it gets set to fulfil an order book of more than £5 million annually by 2024. Brewgooder, which uses a ‘fully-distributed’ brewing model to maximise production capacity while minimising…
Read MoreFree lunchbreak concerts go live again
Aberdeen Art Gallery’s Cowdray Hall is reverberating with the sounds of live music for the first time in two years. The popular free lunchbreak concerts series returned this week. The new programme has been launched in ambitious style as virtuoso local pianist Joseph Long continues his personal challenge to play all 18 of Mozart’s piano…
Read MoreScots playwright Rona Munro adapts her TV script
One of Scotland’s most acclaimed playwrights has been brought to book. The multiple award-winning Rona Munro has written numerous productions for stage, including Dirt Under The Carpet, Bold Girls, and Frankenstein. Some of her most famous stage work is the history cycle The James Plays, James I, James II, and James III, which were first…
Read More‘Free’ kids menu launches for the half term
Five of Edinburgh’s most popular family-friendly restaurants and bars have launched a ‘free’ kids’ menu in time for the February half term holidays. Running from February 14–18, McLarens on the Corner in Morningside, Cold Town House and The Black Bull in the Grassmarket, The Fountain in Fountainbridge and Badger & Co on Castle Street in…
Read MoreFootball, shortbread and opera in our 35th podcast
Scottish Field has two guests in our 35th Scottish Field podcast Our first guest this week is a John Savournin, who’s directing a new Scottish Opera Highlights production, which is touring to 18 venues around the country this spring. Starting on February 8 at Websters Theatre in Glasgow’s West End the tour visits Birnam, Midmar,…
Read MoreSPECTRA’s world premiere of Six Frames by Illuminos
SPECTRA, Scotland’s festival of light, will present the world premiere of a brand-new installation from Illuminos: Six Frames next month. Drawing inspiration from six repeating stanzas of Sheena Blackhall’s poem Twa Brigs Bussie, the installation brings audiences along for the journey, recreating the very same route described in the poem, from Brig o Dee to…
Read MoreGet ready for the light fantastic to return
SPECTRA, Scotland’s festival of light, returns to Aberdeen with a star-studded line-up in Scotland’s Year of Stories 2022. Featuring a brand-new commission, multidisciplinary collaborations, and multiple premieres, this year’s SPECTRA will not only light up the dark winter nights, it will bring Scotland and it’s stories to life. Taking place from February 10-13 across Aberdeen…
Read MoreHolywood headliner for Nae Ordinary Burns Supper
Hollywood and Broadway star Alan Cumming will bring some Hollywood sparkle to this year’s Nae Ordinary Burns Supper — the annual fundraiser hosted by singer and producer Fiona Kennedy which has generated over £400,000 for charity in the past decade. The January 25th bash takes place online this year, with guests and entertainers joining from…
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