Posts Tagged ‘music’
Paxton House prepares for chamber music festival
A summer festival of glorious international chamber music takes place on the banks of the River Tweed this summer. Being held Paxton House, in the Scottish Borders, Music at Paxton will take place from 19-28 July. The daily concerts offer an intimate, friendly and relaxed experience and take place in Paxton House’s splendid Picture Gallery…
Read More10th Lammermuir Festival performers are revealed
The line-up for the 10th Lammermuir Festival has been revealed. Since 2010, The Lammermuir Festival has brought beautiful music to beautiful places in a host of rural and town settings, sometimes in surprising venues, nestling between the Lammermuir Hills and the sea. Born of a conviction that historic architecture and beautiful landscape can create the…
Read MoreFour out of five Scots don’t know driving offences
Nearly half of Scots drivers admit they have broken the law in one form or another whilst at the wheel. GoCompare surveyed 2,000 UK adults to find out how much they know about current driving laws, and how guilty we are as a nation of committing offences at the wheel. It seems most drivers believe…
Read MorePiping Live! 2019 will bring music stars to Glasgow
The world’s biggest week of piping is set to bring 40,000 music fans to Glasgow this summer. Glasgow’s Buchanan Street was today transformed into the Piping Walk of Fame, with Hollywood-style stars revealing the headliners of this year’s Piping Live! Glasgow International Piping Festival, which returns to the city 10 – 18 August 2019. The…
Read MoreFive ways to make a difference this summer
With summer just around the corner, the National Trust for Scotland has announced its next programme of summer volunteer projects to care for Scotland’s natural treasures. Becoming a conservation volunteer with the charity gives participants the opportunity to learn new skills while helping preserve some of Scotland’s most loved natural treasures. With both one-day and…
Read MoreScarabus launched at music and whisky festival
Scotch whisky distiller, blender and bottler Hunter Laing & Co revealed a new dram in time for this year’s Feis Ile 2019. Scarabus Specially Selected was unveiled at the weekend, at the Islay Festival of Music and Whisky. The Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky is bottled at 46% ABV and will be available worldwide from…
Read MoreEdinburgh International Children’s Festival turns 30
The Edinburgh International Children’s Festival returns from 25 May to 2 June with an exciting programme of theatre and dance for children and young people. This year, the Festival celebrates its 30th birthday and the excellent line-up has already attracted over 12,000 bookers, including 6,200 schools pupils over the 9 days. This milestone Festival programme…
Read MoreScots team develop new musical in America
The captivating story of a New York man who had an extraordinary impact on the people around him – despite being unable to speak – is to be brought to the stage by a Scottish-based and trained creative team in one of the most talked about musicals to premiere in the USA this year. From…
Read MoreMusic out as birdsong comes to shopping centre
A Scottish shopping centre is axing music in favour of birdsong – to make shoppers happier. The unusual move by intu Braehead shopping centre to play the springtime sounds of birds tweeting away in the central atrium comes after new research revealed four out of five Scots say they feel happy when they hear the…
Read MoreLife beyond Taggart puts Blythe Duff on stage
When Taggart, the long-running detective series that subsidised Scotland’s theatrical community for many years, came to an end in 2010, Blythe Duff faced a choice. After a double-decade shift in the long leather coat of DI Jackie Reid, should she sit back and live off the repeat fees? Or was it time to hang up…
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