Culture
KT Tunstall joins the line-up for Burns&Beyond
KT Tunstall, Blue Rose Code and Pictish Trail have been added to this year’s Burns&Beyond event. Unique Events, organisers of Burns&Beyond with Johnnie Walker, today announced the full line-up for the flagship Burns&Beyond Culture Trail on Saturday 25 January and revealed two new venues. A single ticket takes audiences on a journey through nine extraordinary…
Read MoreToday’s the last chance to see Linda McCartney’s work
The Linda McCartney Retrospective – a major photographic exhibition, which is curated by Paul, Mary and Stella McCartney – closes in Glasgow today. Located at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Museum, it features iconic names and moments in music from the 1960s along with more intimate and emotional later work by this acclaimed and prolific photographer. The retrospective…
Read MoreThe games master who enjoys a good Stramash
Tony Mitchell took a homemade board game that he used to play with his friends and turned it into an international hit. Mention the word ‘game’ to any teenager and they’ll immediately assume it involves a computer or a console plugged into the television. But Tony Mitchell took a different route when he was creating…
Read MoreNew year: new start – what are your resolutions?
Follow in the footsteps of these Scottish stars and make a fresh start for 2020. 1. Give up the booze Scotland may be known for its hard drinking but you’d be surprised at how many hell raisers have now given up the booze. Ewan MacGregor, the Star Wars actor, went teetotal in 2001 after his…
Read MoreMaritime music at this year’s Celtic Connections
Scotland’s unique marine environment will be celebrated in a special performance at Celtic Connections to mark the Year of Coasts and Waters 2020. Scottish Natural Heritage has commissioned acclaimed traditional musician Ingrid Henderson to create Message in a Bottle, a new musical composition inspired by the movements of ocean currents. The audio-visual performance with music,…
Read MoreBig names heading for Glasgow Comedy Festival
International comedians and joining the best of Scotland at this year’s Whyte & Mackay Glasgow International Comedy Festival. The hugely popular event in the city’s cultural calendar returns 12–29 March, and 60 venues across Glasgow are taking part – the most ever in the festival’s history. The 18-day comedy extravaganza features international stars Trevor Noah,…
Read MoreThe King and I is coming to Glasgow’s King’s Theatre
An unmissable production of Rodger and Hammerstein’s The King and I will run in Glasgow later this month as part of a UK tour. Direct from the London Palladium, the critically acclaimed Lincoln Centre Theatre Production, opens at the King’s Theatre on Tuesday 28 January until Saturday 8 February. The King and I is a…
Read MoreCeltic Connections gets underway next week
Glasgow’s annual Celtic Connections music festival kicks off next week. Featuring over 2,000 musicians in 300 events across 18 days, Celtic Connections is bound to brighten up the dark, wet January nights with its unique offer of cross-genre and cross-border collaborations, alongside talks, workshops, film screenings, theatre productions, ceilidhs, exhibitions, free events and late-night sessions.…
Read MoreGod of Carnage coming to the stage in Glasgow
Downtown Abbey’s Elizabeth McGovern and Olivier Award-nominated Nigel Lindsay are to star in Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage at Theatre Royal, Glasgow this month. Theatre Royal Bath Productions are thrilled to bring the 10th anniversary production to the city from Monday 27 January until Saturday 1 February as part of a UK tour. Joining McGovern…
Read MoreNew festival to celebrate a Scottish river town
A new festival celebrating the history and heritage of a Scottish town is to be held later this year. The Dumbarton Festival, which will run from 4-7 June, will be part of celebrations for Scotland’s Year of Coasts and Waters 2020. The packed programme will include a range of family friendly events celebrating the area’s…
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