Fast-becoming a Blas Festival tradition, three big birthdays of Gaelic musicians will be celebrated in true Highland style this year with an impressive array of special musical guests taking to the stage.
The Lewis and Harris Piping Society is reviving its programme of recitals over the winter, beginning with a performance from Callum Beaumont in Stornoway on Saturday, November 9th.
The Mod, the biggest festival of Gaelic culture, returns to Glasgow this year with live coverage and highlights featuring extensively on BBC ALBA and BBC Radio nan Gàidheal.
The Dìleab EP, which contains five specially commissioned songs, by Willie Campbell, and features pupils from across the Western Isles, is now available for sale.
Singer-songwriter Karine Polwart, Sky at Night presenter Chris Lintott, and arts and astronomy project Creativity and Curiosity will be among the headline events at the second Hebridean Dark Skies Festival, it has been announced.
Folk music fans can look forward to a very special broadcast on BBC Radio nan Gàidheal on Saturday 5th October from 8 pm, a concert live from Ennis in Ireland to celebrate 25 years of the Gaelic and Irish radio programme Sruth na Maoile.
STV is currently airing Hayman’s Way, a new series in which actor and presenter David Hayman makes a journey across the country to discover some of rural Scotland’s most beautiful, fascinating and surprising places.
Fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which wowed audiences and earned rave reviews, comedian, Susie McCabe is taking her show ‘Born Believer’ on tour around the UK this October.
What do fish farms, renegade environmentalists, Native American Indians, cartoon ladybirds and a choir of sea-shanty-singing Cornish fishermen have in common?
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.
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.
