Arts & Culture

Edinburgh doesn’t just throw a festival now and then – it practically lives and breathes them.

Robert Burns (1759-1796), affectionately known as “Rabbie Burns,” is Scotland’s national poet.

Jazz Festivals, Clubs and Venues, Musicians, Bands and Orchestras, Media, Information

Choirs around Scotland, Gaelic Choirs around the world, Barbershop

Scottish Film Information, Film Festivals, Cinemas, History, Film Societies and Clubs

Brass bands have played a proud and resonant role in Scotland’s musical and social history.

Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by.

Few sounds are as stirring or emblematic of Scotland as the skirl of the pipes and the beat of the drum.

Scotland boasts a thriving theatrical landscape, from national institutions to vibrant community companies.

Born in Perth in 1875, Buchan was a man of many chapters: bestselling novelist, war propagandist, Member of Parliament, and ultimately the Governor General of Canada.