Posts Tagged ‘Fife’
Big names for contemporary Burns festival
The world’s biggest contemporary Burns celebration has announced some top class names for their 2019 event. The Big Burns Supper takes place from 24 January–3 February in Dumfries, with 111 events across 11 days of world class music, comedy, theatre and cabaret. Scottish rocker KT Tunstall, award-winning contemporary Scottish folk band, The Peatbog Faeries and…
Read MoreA new song to remember the Unknown Warrior
Singer-songwriter Ricky Ross has composed a song inspired by the symbolic figure of the Unknown Warrior for Armistice Day. The story of his Ballad of the Unknown Warrior will feature in an hour-long BBC Radio Scotland documentary on Sunday, 11 November at 10am. And prior to the transmission, Deacon Blue frontman Ricky and BBC Scotland…
Read MoreThe forgotten past of Scotland’s secret gardens
This summer’s dry weather has revealed the forgotten past of hidden and long-lost gardens across the country. The Oxford English Dictionary describes a garden as ‘an enclosed piece of ground devoted to the cultivation of flowers, fruit or vegetables’. And to all intents and purposes that is exactly what it is, but it still seems…
Read MoreThrowback Thursday – the 2013 Fife Regatta
Five years ago, the Fife Regatta took place off the west coast of Scotland. Scotland has a proud history of sailing. At the beginning of the 19th century William Fife, son of John Fife a mill and cartwright, began building fishing boats and trading craft on the foreshore at Fairlie. An excellent craftsman, keen to…
Read MoreRaising voices in a four-day musical celebration
Scotland’s only festival dedicated to vocal and choral music is taking place this week. St Andrews Voices is a four day celebration of the voice. Set in the world-famous historic town of St Andrews in Fife, from Thursday 25-Sunday 28 October, St Andrews Voices presents opera, masterclasses, choral music, jazz, a come-and-sing workshop, folk, a…
Read MoreScots library wins an ‘Oscar’ at public building awards
A Scottish building has taken the top honour in the UK Civic Building of the Year Awards. Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries has scooped the prestigious title at the UK ‘Oscars’ for buildings in the public sector. It was a double celebration at the SPACES ceremony when the venue won a second award for the…
Read MoreAqua Vitae was loved by kings and commoners
A drink enjoyed by 15th century Scottish kings and commoners alike is now available to taste again. Aqua Vitae is a new spirit from Lindores Abbey in Fife, where the journey of single malt whisky first began in 1494. The spirit is abundantly rich in both flavour and history, making the perfect gift with a…
Read MoreHome in mature gardens with plenty of office space
This impressive stone built house with a large, mature and productive garden sits in a prominent position in the heart of a coastal town. Presented to the market by Paris Steele, this unique B Listed property, Glenorchy House, at 15 Glenorchy Road, North Berwick, offers generous residential space over the first and second floors and…
Read MorePerfect family home in a quiet conservation area
A beautifully-presented family home in a sought-after conservation village is now on the property market. The Old School House, in West Green, Culross, near Dunfermline, is presented for sale by Galbraith, and is a lovely house, quietly situated within Culross which is noted for its historic architecture and charming feel. The Category C Listed Old…
Read MoreWhen silver was Scotland’s most desired metal
An exhibition marking when Scotland valued silver over gold is set to open. National Museums Scotland is holding an exhibition, Scotland’s Early Silver, at Duff House in Aberdeenshire, showing how silver, not gold, became the most important precious metal in Scotland over the course of the first millennium AD. Scotland’s Early Silver, created by National…
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