Scottish Fiddle Legends Blazin’ Fiddles Announce New Album Incendo
Out Friday 23rd January 2026 on Blazin’ Records For over a quarter of a century, no other band has quite captured Scottish fiddle music’s variety, energy and sensitivity like Blazin’ Fiddles. Now the four-string heroes mark a new 5piece era with their latest release Incendo. Set for release on Friday 23rd January, the album affirms…
Saxophonist Oscar Lavën Unleashes Elegant Calamity
Saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Oscar Lavën releases Elegant Calamity, the follow-up to his internationally admired debut, Questions in Red, on Thick Records on Friday 16th January 2026. An effervescent presence on New Zealand’s currently vital jazz scene, Lavën (pronounced Lah-venn) is a double graduate from the New Zealand School of Music and brings his degrees in…
King’s Theatre Redevelopment Funding Secured by The Scottish Government
The King’s Theatre has been awarded two payments amounting to £2.5million from the Scottish Government, closing the funding gap for the main construction works needed to redevelop this much-loved Tollcross landmark. With the capital funding now in place, fundraising will continue to ensure the interior of the historic Edwardian venue that is the King’s Theatre is fully equipped and ready to welcome audiences when it reopens in…
The Scottish Gallery Press Publishes James Morrison: Under a Northern Sky
The Scottish Gallery Press announces the publication of James Morrison: Under a Northern Sky, a new small-format hardback celebrating the life, legacy, and extraordinary landscape career of one of Scotland’s most admired painters that will be launched at the Gallery from this February with a small exhibition entitled In Focus. James Morrison: Under a Northern Sky brings together a deeply personal selection…
Citadel Arts Group Honours Co -Founder in Return to Scottish Storytelling Centre
Millie Gray was a well-loved storyteller, novelist, playwright and champion of older people as well as a co-founder of what theatre critic Joyce McMillan called ‘one of the best known community theatre companies in Scotland’ – Leith’s Citadel Arts Group. In 1995, the group performed a play at the Scottish Storytelling Centre by the 70-plus…
Scottish Cult Classic The High Life Returns in New Musical Form for 2026
After a 30-year delay in the departure lounge, fans of ‘90s comedy classic, The High Life, can buckle up for a new musical version featuring all four original cast members – Alan Cumming as Sebastian Flight, Forbes Masson as Steve McCracken, Siobhan Redmond as Shona Spurtle and Patrick Ryecart as Captain Hilary Duff. In this collaborative work, Cumming and Masson…
The Snow Queen Scottish Ballet Festival Theatre
In these cold, damp days of late November/early December various signs of the impending festive season appear on the streets and in shops. But none of these tidings imbue me with much in the way of Christmas spirit. Fortunately, though, the one thing that never fails to relieve the gloom and fill me with anticipation…
The Great Arch (L’Inconnu de la Grande Arche) (15)
French Film Festival 2025 Based on the 2016 novel by Laurence Cossé, la Grande Arche, this latest film from director Stéphane Démoustier, tells the largely unknown story surrounding the architect of the now iconic Grande Arche de la Défense in Paris. In anticipation of the bicentenary of the French Revolution in 1989, the then President, François…
Manipulate Arts Announces Programme for the 2026 Manipulate Festival
Manipulate Arts – Scotland’s home for cutting-edge animation, puppetry and visual theatre – has announced the programme for the 19th edition of Manipulate Festival in its traditional timeslot of February. But that’s about all that is traditional! Its most ambitious programme to date will feature 4 World Premieres and 6 Scottish premieres on stage, artists…
Testament (15)
French Film Festival Jean-Michel Bouchard (Rémy Girard) is a lifelong bachelor and retired archivist who is living out the late autumn of his life in a spacious apartment in a comfortable retiral home. His inner thoughts are heard as he strolls the home’s environs in his tweedy three-piece suits, when we learn that he has come…
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