Fringe: Alzheimers and war in Ivory Wings

Ivory Wings is good drama – very good drama. Ivory Wings is a sibling production from Susie and Anna Coreth. Susie is both the playwright and sole actor whilst Anna provides the music. The underlying story is the therapeutic and beneficial effect music can have on Alzheimer sufferers. Susie plays Virginia who at various stages…

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Bringing the tattoo to the streets of Glasgow

Pipers from The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo’s house band, the Pipers Trail, wowed the crowds on Glasgow’s Buchanan Street with a flavour of the Tattoo as part of the Piping Live! Festival. The band was developed by the Tattoo in 2014 to establish a worldwide network of Scottish piping and drumming performers to play traditional…

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Ten fantastic places to visit in… Glasgow

Glasgow is Scotland’s largest city, and with an abundance of character and culture, is well worth a visit. Whether you are a local, there on holiday or just a day trip, here are ten things you can’t visit Glasgow without doing. 1. Gallery of Modern Art This Gallery of Modern Art is Scotland’s most visited,…

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A spacious listed sandstone home dating from 1900

A category B listed six bedroom colonial style detached Edwardian home is now available on the property market. Set amid beautifully maintained garden grounds and mature woodland, Green Den is presented to the market by Savills, and is a striking colonial style six bedroom detached residence built of solid sandstone in 1900 by the renowned…

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Youngsters can follow in footsteps of Outlander Sam

The former school of Scots Outlander star Sam Heughan is starting the academic year with two new large classrooms and a pair of studios for creative arts. Edinburgh Steiner School broke ground at the beginning of the year with the £0.5million project, restoring the dilapidated former stable block and hayloft built in the 1870s. This…

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PipingLive! festival kicks off its 16th event in Glasgow

The 16th year of Piping Live! Glasgow International Piping Festival kicked off today with a piping hot performance. It came from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Novice Juvenile Pipe Band, featuring 11 year-old tenor drummer Emily Gormley, the youngest member of the band. The band launched this year’s event with a rousing performance at the…

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Exhibition will mark Scots Victorian adventurer

A pioneering Egyptologist to be celebrated at a new Scottish attraction. Annie Pirie Quibell – artist, academic and adventurer – always had the makings of a trailblazer. She wrote a guidebook to Cairo Museum for soldiers stationed in the Egypt during the First World War, produced another covering the pyramids of Giza, and lived for…

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Guest director will add to the Scottish Ensemble

The Scottish Ensemble will collaborate with guest director, violinist Marianne Thorsen, for the first tour of the season. The UK’s leading string orchestra has announced the first half of a two-part Scottish tour called Chamber Notes. The ensemble will perform Mendelssohn and Enescu’s stunning octets, and will be led by the outstanding Norwegian violinist Marianne…

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Street orchestra set to visit the Outer Hebrides

Nevis Ensemble, Scotland’s street orchestra, is taking its 40 musicians to venues around the Outer Hebrides this month as part the biggest ever tour of the islands by an orchestra. Conducted by Holly Mathieson and Jon Hargreaves, this relentlessly energetic group will give 35 concerts in public spaces and community venues in many venues including Barra and Harris from 19-28 August. A highlight…

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The official Harris Tweed of the military tattoo

The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo now has its own unique design of Harris Tweed. As a new Tattoo Tweed – named Midnight Blue – has been launched, with the inspiration coming from the event’s producer and chief executive, Brigadier David Allfrey. Brigadier Allfrey recalled that when he took up the post, he anticipated the need…

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