Fresh from their opening slot for Snow Patrol at the Glasgow SECC in front of 10,000 people and their sell out headline Celtic Connections gig at the 02 ABC in January 2012, the Shetland Folk Festival have just booked the hotly tipped rising band Admiral Fallow. Booked for a one off gig on Thursday 3rd [...]

Coming up this month at Caithness Horizons:  o We have some Jellytastic news! A recent application to Culture24′s Connect10 competition to bring dedicated jellymonger heroes and contemporary artists Bompas & Parr ( http://www.jellymongers.co.uk ) to Thurso has beaten off fierce competition from other museums and galleries throughout the UK to the final round and public vote! [...]

Caithness Horizons needs your help. A recent application to Culture24′s Connect10 competition to bring dedicated jellymonger heroes and contemporary artists Bompas & Parr ( http://www.jellymongers.co.uk ) to Thurso has beaten off fierce competition from other museums and galleries throughout the UK to the final round and public vote! The competition is now down to just Caithness [...]

Held for the first time in 2011, Voluntary Arts Week highlighted the wonderful amateur arts and craft activity taking place across the country. This year it’s being rolled out across the UK and Republic of Ireland – so it’s time to start thinking about how you could take part. Run by Voluntary Arts Scotland (VAS), [...]

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) has announced details of its proposed move to the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Subject to planning approval the £14 million development will provide a world-class rehearsal space and learning centre, as well as a unique, desirable recital hall and performance space for the city of Glasgow. The capital costs [...]

The List’s Guide to Scotland’s Festivals 2012 is back! Containing an incredible 380 festivals and with more than 200,000 copies being produced and distributed around the UK, you will be left with no doubt that Scotland truly is a Festival Nation. Festivals are a celebration and Scotland has much to celebrate throughout 2012 with the [...]

Rewind Festival have confirmed “Adam Ant and The Good, The Mad & The Lovely Posse” as very special guest for this summer’s Rewind Scotland (20-22 nd July, Scone Palace, Perth). Adam Ant will perform at Rewind Scotland on Sunday 22 nd July. For the full line-up, tickets and more information on the festival please visit the official Rewind [...]

Astar: Gleann Tholstaidh Glen Tolsta Ishbel Murray, Mairi Morrison, Anne Campbell Exhibition at An Lanntair, Stornoway, 11th February – 24th March 2012 ASTAR (distance, journey) explores the concept of journeying through time, to retrace the history of five families who in 1843 left their homes in the Park district of Lewis and settled in the uninhabited Glen Tolsta, [...]

Shetland Needleworkers’ exhibitions have established a reputation for being colourful and accessible yet interesting and varied. The new exhibition opening in Da Gadderie at Shetland Museum and Archives this weekend will not disappoint. With more entries than ever, this event showcases the creativity and productivity of the members. From quilts and hangings, to pictures, cushions, boxes [...]

A joint promotion from Inverness Chamber Music and At One With Music will treat music lovers to six of the finest chamber music works by the greatest composer who ever lived, Ludvig van Beethoven, during two concerts next week. Beethoven’s sonatas for cello and piano, five consistently inspired and wonderful works, offer the opportunity to [...]

IG:LU, Inverness, until 18 February 2012 CLIMBING the stairs at IG:LU the excitement is never being quite sure what you will find on entering the space. THIS sense of anticipation is heightened on being led into the Insertion Collective’s debut show. Making an appointment for an experience of 20 minutes duration, limited to a maximum of 5 people [...]

Forget policemen and doctors, you really know you’re getting old when some of the regular contributors to ‘Grumpy Old Men’ are younger than you are. My home town of Glasgow regularly brings out my inner grumpiness. I spent most of the first half of my life there, but I haven’t lived in the city since [...]

Dornoch Craft Guild are running their third annual Fibre Fest on the 16th/17th/18th March 2012. It takes place at the Dornoch Social Club and the programme this year will be: Friday 16th – Junior workshops – silk paintings of local wild life with Gaelic titles. Saturday 17th – Batik workshops – with Mary Styrou London based textile [...]

‘It was the revolutionary fundraising model that swept Barack Obama to power – and it could help arts bodies in Britain stay in business.’ Are you constantly looking for the right funding route but coming up empty handed? Are you looking for alternative routes to fund your project that doesn’t rely on public bodies? Would you like [...]

As Celtic Connections draws to a close this weekend, it’s been announced that Scotland’s newest University will team up with the festival next year. The University of the Highlands and Islands will become a Celtic Connections education partner from 2013. Speaking about the collaboration, Dr Neil Simco, Dean of UHI’s faculty of arts, humanities and [...]

Red Note, Scotland’s contemporary music ensemble, and prolific internationally acclaimed tabla player Kuljit Bhamra, are bringing Bhangra and bagpipes to the Hebrides this April! The 4 day “From Reels to Ragas” tour, which begins on 11 April 2012, is a cross-genre project fusing global and Indian music in a series of exciting concerts and free [...]

A recent move from Crianlarach to Easter Ross has undoubtedly influenced this new body of work from that eminently talented ‘plein air’ painter, Jonathan Shearer. For his fourth show at the Castle Gallery in Inverness he has produced a number of new paintings more local to area including views of Inverness city, the Cromarty Firth [...]

Unpacked from Brighton is packing up and wrapping up for a visit to Scotland with our fabulous wintry family show, Robin and the Big Freeze. Robins are extremely territorial and don’t ever venture far from their patch, so this is quite an unusual venture for our central character, as he explains. We hear you are a [...]

At the fork in the road, ANA takes both paths A unique Scotland / Québec bilingual co-production that straddles the line between creativity and madness. “With a strong ensemble cast and remarkable mise-en-scène, ANA offers an imaginative and complex vision of womanhood.” Montreal Arts Uncovered Following a highly acclaimed world premiere in Québec, ANA, directed by internationally renowned Serge Denoncourt travels to [...]