Scotland Today
West Highland Yachting Week
Friday-Friday, 27th July-3rd August 2007
Where: Craobh, Oban & Tobermory
One of the leading international yachting events, the West Highland Yachting Week is one of those rare regattas that moves from centre to centre during the event, offering competitors an ever-changing scene on 80 miles of coastline along Scotland's beautiful west coast. An attractive combination of round-the-buoys and passage racing is supported by the regatta's excellent social programme.
www.whyw.co.uk
European Pipe Band Championships
Saturday, 28th July 2007
Where: Inverness
Hundreds of pipers from around Europe descend on Inverness for two days in a bid to win this prestigious award.
www.highland2007.com
Aberdeen International Youth Festival
Wednesday-Saturday, 1st-11th August 2007
Where: Aberdeen
Celebrating the best youth talent from all over the world, the festival brings Aberdeen to life with 10 days of dazzling entertainment, music, theatre and dance, all kicking off with a colourful grand parade through the city centre. Events take place throughout the northeast with something for everyone, from orchestral concerts to steel drums, song recitals and massed choirs to traditional music, ballet to African dance and drumming, opera and special events for children.
www.aiyf.com
Auchtermuchty Festival
Wednesday-Thursday, 1st-30th August 2007
Where: Auchtermuchty, Fife
Concerts, ceilidhs, dances, competitions, workshops and sessions. Also open air events.
Contact: Betty McCulloch
Telephone 01337 828358
betty@seamab.org.uk
www.auchtermuchty-festival.org.uk
Speyfest
Thursday-Sunday, 2nd-5th August 2007
Where: Fochabers, Moray
One of the north's foremost Celtic festivals, Speyfest offers a wonderful weekend of high-quality traditional and modern music, concerts, late-night ceilidhs and Celtic rock. Musicans from around the world will be performing as usual, and there's a special programme for children and young people.
www.speyfest.com
Gaelforce
(Dates to be confirmed)
Where: Dumfries & Galloway
A multi-arts extravaganza offering something for everyone and extending throughout the autumn and across the southwest. With country, Celtic, traditional and world-music events; book festivals, poetry and theatre performances; and exhibitions and street processions.
www.gaelforceevents.co.uk
Lanark Medieval Festival
Saturday-Sunday, 18th- 19th August 2007
Where: Castlebank Park, Lanark
Scotland's largest authentic living history medieval festival, attended by hundreds of re-enactors and medieval traders from the north of Scotland to Cornwall and from Ireland. Over two days, the town turns back the clock to the days of William Wallace with a tented army where soldiers and camp followers explain and demonstrate how they lived in the 13th century, with archery competitions, falconry displays, jesters and jugglers, and medieval musicians and storytellers.
Join us in remembering Scotland's national hero, Sir William Wallace, in the medieval town where he lived, loved and began the Braveheart story.
www.lanarkmedievalfestival.co.uk
North Berwick International Highland Games
Saturday, 4th August 2007
Where: North Berwick, East Lothian
A traditional Highland Games featuring events such as throwing the Scots hammer, tossing the caber, and Highland dancing competitions throughout the day. The games also hosts the Lothian and Borders Pipe Band Championships with over 70 bands from all over the world competing. The day finishes with a spectacular massed pipe band display.
www.northberwickhighlandgames.co.uk
The 2007 Edinburgh Military Tattoo
Friday-Saturday, 3rd-25th August 2007
Where: Edinburgh Castle
Scotland's stunning annual outdoor military spectacular set against the magnificent backdrop of Edinburgh Castle. The Tattoo has been called the most spectacular show in the world and is seen by an international TV audience of 100 million every year. But there's no substitute for being there, as part of the 217,000-strong audience over its three-week season on the Esplanade at Edinburgh Castle.
www.edintattoo.co.uk
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Sunday-Monday, 5th-27th August 2007
Where: Edinburgh
The world's biggest celebration of the arts takes over Edinburgh for three weeks in August in a massive explosion of cultural and artistic expression. The programme is a vibrant mix of art forms – theatre, comedy, music and musicals, dance, events and exhibitions and children's shows, all attracting up-and-coming talent and established names from around the world to take part in this most famous of festivals.
www.edfringe.com
Piping Live!
Monday-Sunday, 6th-12th August 2007
Where: Glasgow Green
Glasgow's festival of piping returns with the best in Scottish and International piping talent to celebrate the finest current and emerging piping music. Some of the biggest names in piping will be performing in outdoor spaces and venues throughout Glasgow City Centre for this uniquely Scottish event.
www.pipingfestival.co.uk
Tartan Day
Wednesday-Friday, 1st-31st August 2007 Date to be confirmed
Where: Aberdeen
Tartan Day gives the citizens of Aberdeen and its visitors an opportunity to participate in a range of free activities including walking tours, music workshops and art exhibitions focusing on traditional Scottish culture and heritage. Included in the programme is the Aberdeen Country Fair, one of the largest markets in Scotland, complete with a Tartan Day Scottish Pavilion. In the morning there are guided tours of St Nicholas Churchyard, exploring its history and giving an insight into the lives of some of the important people who are buried there. The show opens at Union Terrace Gardens, which also hosts a Tartan Family Day with clowns, face painters, magicians and, inevitably, haggis tasting.
The Edinburgh International Festival
Friday-Sunday, 10th August-2nd September 2007
Where: Edinburgh
A rich programme of classical music, theatre, opera and dance in six major theatres and concert halls and a number of smaller venues, over a three-week period in late summer each year. The 2007 Festival will run from the 10th of August to the 2nd of September.
The Festival began in 1947, with the aim of providing 'a platform for the flowering of the human spirit'. Right from the start it inspired people to put on shows of their own outwith the official Festival, and soon these grew into the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
www.eif.co.uk
Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival
Friday-Saturday, 10th-11th August 2007
Where: Belladrum Estate, By Beauly, Inverness-shire
An eclectic, family-friendly celebration of music and the performing arts in the form of a two-day open air festival. The festival features a stage for young and unsigned bands, a performance tent staging anything from cabaret to children's theatre, alternative healing, stalls, charities, kids' entertainments and a tipi reservation.
www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Saturday-Monday, 11th-27th August 2007
Where: Edinburgh
The world's biggest book festival features a varied and exciting programme for adults and children. Come along and meet your favourite authors from around the world, join in discussions, hear readings and lectures, and take part in debates and workshops, all in one of Edinburgh's most beautiful spaces, Charlotte Square Gardens.
www.edbookfest.co.uk
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Wednesday-Sunday, 15th-26th August 2007
Where: Edinburgh
The Edinburgh International Film Festival celebrates the best in British and World cinema. Come and see some of the most entertaining, challenging and inspirational new movies around and meet the artists involved in movie-making.
www.edfilmfest.org.uk
Mull of Kintyre Music Festival
Thursday-Sunday, 16th-19th August 2007
Where: Campbeltown, Argyll
Campbeltown in beautiful Kintyre is the setting for this weekend-long display of new, emerging and established musical talent. Indoor and outdoor venues host a range of concerts, sessions, ceilidhs, choirs, pipe and brass bands and modern & Highland dancing. With open-air and children's events.
www.mokfest.com
Langholm Festival
Saturday-Saturday, 18th-25th August 2007
Where: Langholm
The hugely successful Langholm event offers, once more, a diverse range of great entertainment in beautiful surroundings
Contact: Alan Weatherstone
Telephone: 01387 380912
office@langholmfestival.co.uk
www.langholmfestival.co.uk
Connect Music Festival
Friday-Sunday, 31st August-2nd September, 2007
Where: Inveraray Castle, Scotland
Connect Music Festival is Scotland's new three day boutique event to be held in the stunning grounds of Inveraray Castle, situated on the banks of one of Scotland's most beautiful lochs, Loch Fyne, Argyll. There will be a range of on-site camping options available including bespoke tipis and pods, and soon to be announced will be details on the plethora of bands, DJs, artists, performers, comedians, jesters, visual arts and installations that will be keeping you amused throughout the weekend. For further information please visit:
www.connectmusicfestival.com
Peebles Arts Festival
Tuesday-Sunday, 21st August-9th September 2007
Where: Peebles, Scotland
The Peebles Arts Festival marks a very busy three weeks in the Scottish Borders, as the town comes alive with events and activities for all.
BLAS Festival
Friday-Saturday, 31st August-8th September 2007
Where: The Highlands
Celebrating the best of Highland and Gaelic Music and Culture, with world standard participation of local, national and international acts.
50 venues across the Highlands
Contact: Donna Cunningham
management@blas-festival.com
www.blas-festival.com
Linlithgow Folk Festival
Friday-Monday, 7th-10th September 2007
Where: Linlithgow
Folk Festival with concert, family ceilidh, workshops, canal cruises, children’s events, craft fair and bluegrass day.
Contact: Liz Wilson
Telephone: +44 (0)1506 843376
elizabeth.wilson26@btinternet.com
Hairth O’ Knockrach
Friday-Sunday, 14th-16th September 2007
Where: Knockengorroch Farm, Carsphairn, Castle Douglas
Unique family friendly Celtic/World music festival in the rolling Lowther Hills of Dumfriesshire. High profile and emerging performers. Two stages, sessions, workshops, storytelling, fire performances, children’s marquee, DJs and more.
www.knockengorroch.org.uk
Merchant City Festival
Thursday-Sunday, 20th-23rd September, 2007
Where: Glasgow
Discover opera singers in the courtyards of the vibrant Merchant City, performing alongside streets and bars brimming with cutting-edge live art, street theatre, iconoclastic comedy and music for every genre. The Merchant City Festival is a unique showcase for contemporary and traditional Scottish art and culture, and has attracted a remarkable range of supporters, from festival directors to national organisations like the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Scottish Opera.
For more information please log onto: www.merchantcityfestival.com
Fieldstation: Outlandia by London Fieldworks
Sunday-Wednesday, 1st April-31st October 2007
Where: Glen Nevis, Fort William
An opportunity to create links between art and environment through the design and build of artist treehouse studios within Glen Nevis. The sustainable buildings designed by architect Malcolm Fraser will host international artists' residencies and educational workshops to inspire creative responses to the landscape and encourage debate around environment and ecology.
www.londonfieldworks.com
Provost Skene's House and various venues
Union Terrace Gardens. Country Fair city centre on Belmont Street, between Union Street and Schoolhill
Free
For More Information
Aberdeen City Council
Tel +44 (0)1224 522 000
www.aberdeencity.gov.uk
