Wigtown Book Festival has been named as Scotland’s top cultural event of the year just as preparations get underway for the 20thannual event. The award was given as part of the Scottish Cultural Awards, described as the country’s Oscars, with the winners being...
One of the liveliest small music weekends in Scotland will soon be setting the summer nights aglow when the Firefly Festival returns to Moniaive. This year it features a line-up including The Hoolits, Trongate Rum Riots, Greg Lawson and Pete Garnett and Emma...
In 2016 internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Joanna Wallfisch cycled 1,154 miles down the Pacific Coast Highway carrying little but a ukulele and a loop pedal. She called her journey The Great Song Cycle. This odyssey, rich with strangeness and delight, gave...
The cream of New York gospel and R&B singers, plus leading Off Broadway performers, are coming to the Edinburgh Fringe with a new musical telling the true story of an 1850s Virginia slave who was shipped to freedom in a box. Henry Box Brown is directed by Tony...
Four high school pupils have been given the chance to create costumes for a major new production by one of Scotland’s most visually spectacular performance theatre companies. Oceanallover, run by Alex Rigg and Florencia García Chafuén from Moniaive, is renowned for...
