Entertainment

On September 12, Scottish Opera’s hugely popular Opera Highlights tour kicks off with four singers and a pianist journeying to 17 venues the length and breadth of Scotland.

No choir is complete without a signature look, and Scotland’s debut entry to Eurovision Choir makes no exception.

Runrig’s last live concert ‘The Last Dance – Farewell Concert’ will be available from Friday, August 16th on Blu-ray, 2DVD, 2CD, limited 3CD digipak, limited collector’s edition (2DVDs, 3CDs & numbered print inside a coffee table book), and digitally.

A contingent of islanders, and people with island connections, will be making up a large section of the Scottish choir taking part in the Eurovision Choir Contest in August.

Advance tickets for HebCelt’s milestone 25th festival go on sale at midday tomorrow (Friday, July 26th) to meet demand from fans, just days after another successful event ended.

The multi-million-selling singer songwriter KT Tunstall led the praise for the 24th Hebridean Celtic Festival which ended at the weekend after another highly successful four-day event.

Finally! The sun came out to play on HebCelt Saturday and our souls were warmed by this solar kiss, as well as some sweet music trickling out of the Acoustic Tent, as the afternoon’s cornucopia of aural delights was kickstarted by James Nicol.

Is there a more joyous or feel-good feeling spreading event than a music festival? Despite some heavy rain in the run up to this year’s Hebridean Celtic Festival, there was no chance of Mother Nature’s latest mood swing putting the dampeners on this year’s event not when the isles, and far, far beyond, are in the warm and melodic grip of Peatlemania.

For the first time ever, Scotland will be represented at Eurovision, when a choir head to Sweden next month.

Fancy a belly laugh in October? And you don’t even need to head to the big lights of the city for this treat, as comedy favourite Alan Carr is heading to Lewis this autumn.

‘Human Nature’ is the theme for this year’s Hebridean Book Festival, Faclan 2019, when it gets underway this autumn.

Scottish Ballet is bringing their production of Wee Hansel & Gretel; a fully staged production that has been specially adapted for young audiences, to An Lanntair in Stornoway on Friday, July 5th and Saturday, July 6th, as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations.

With just over three weeks to go to the start of this year’s HebCelt, the festival HQ has opened in Stornoway town centre.

Scottish Ballet is bringing its specially adapted wee version of a big ballet, Wee Hansel & Gretel, to An Lanntair on Friday, July 5th and Saturday, July 6th, as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations.

Founded in 1969 and funded by the Scottish Government, Scottish Ballet is known as Scotland’s national dance company.

The final ever episode of much-loved comedy Still Game will be broadcast next week when its ninth series comes to an end.

As The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh prepares to stage the world premiere of a major new production of Local Hero, we take a look back at seven classic moments from the film that pitted the ambitions of American oil multinational against the ways of a beautiful Highland village.

AS you read this, the chances are I’ll be sitting in a theatre in London, watching a show that most theatre-goers will never get to see in Edinburgh.