Entertainment

A new Gaelic language play about climate change is nearing the end of a successful six week national tour of Gaelic medium primary schools.

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.

A new series of BBC ALBA’s hilarious award-winning comedy FUNC was filmed at various locations throughout Lewis, including the Callanish Stones.

What do fish farms, renegade environmentalists, Native American Indians, cartoon ladybirds and a choir of sea-shanty-singing Cornish fishermen have in common?

Final preparations are underway for Stramash this weekend (August 9th and 10th).

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.