Culture

Scotland’s Festival of Light returns to Aberdeen for its 10th year and the line up is as bright and colourful as ever, finds Grant Dickie.  Iconic locations across the Granite City have been transformed by light for the tenth year in a row, as SPECTRA curates a collection of immersive and striking artworks for this…

Many a musical has attempted to belt its way to immortality. Still, few have come as close to achieving it as Jesus Christ Superstar, the Vatican-blessed rock opera by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Closing in the West End after a record-breaking 3358 West End performances, director Timothy Sheader’s Olivier Award-winning revival continued to…

Outland star Graham McTavish has released a new short film with the National Galleries of Scotland. The Scottish actor dives into the dramatic seascape that is William McTaggart’s, The Sailing of the Emigrant Ship, in the newest film in the Perspectives series by National Galleries. The Outlander actor explores how the painting resonates with his…

It was 90 days that changed the history of women’s rugby and saved the sport for generations to come. But now the story of how Scotland rescued the 1994 rugby World Cup is being brought to the stage. The tournament in 1994 was originally meant to be hosted by the Netherlands, but just 90 days before…

He learned about traditional music in his school ceilidh band, but now singer and mandolin player Calum McIlroy has been named Scotland’s Young Traditional Musician. The BBC Radio Scotland contest is renowned as one of the biggest platforms for emerging talent in traditional music. It has been a springboard for numerous Scottish traditional music exponents…

Scottish star Jack Lowden is set to return to the stage in his home country for the first time in a decade when he makes his debut at the Edinburgh International Festival. The Slow Horses actor made his theatrical debut in Black Watch back in 2010, but is heading back to stage this year to…

Scotland’s friendliest art fair is set to return with more than 70 artists and galleries, from across the Borders and as far apart as Aberdeenshire and Devon, for visitors to discover. The 2024 McInroy & Wood Borders Art Fair (BAF) takes place in Kelso, in The Borders, on the weekend of 15-17 March. Within an…

The Traitors has been back on our screen and viewers are loving the show’s Gothic castle as much as its twists and turns. We take inside the castle where the hit TV show has bee filmed. The show is filmed at Ardross Castle, a 19th house and estate north of Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. The…

A scholar has discovered an unseen manuscript from Robert Burns which he believes could have cost him his career had it been published because of its revolutionary ideas. The cancelled work was a different version of the famous song Ye Jacobites By Name, which was written by Burns in 1791 in the inflammatory early period…