Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival has booked The Proclaimers and Alabama 3 to headline the two day event in the Italian Gardens, Belladrum, near Beauly, Inverness-shire on Friday 12th and Saturday 13th August 2005.
28 April 2005

Work begins this week on the dramatic yet discreet building that will provide Orkney with one of the finest arts venues in Britain.
27 April 2005

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra gives the world premiere performances of Stuart MacRae’s Three Pictures in Glasgow (Academy Concert Hall, RSAMD, Friday 6th May, 7.30pm) and Edinburgh (Queen’s Hall, Saturday 7th May, 7.30pm). The great composer/conductor Oliver Knussen conducts MacRae’s new work in a programme that also features the Scottish premiere of his own Violin Concerto with Leila Josefowicz as soloist making her debut with the SCO. The two premiere performances are framed by Respighi’s Botticelli Triptyph and Stravinsky’s Scènes de Ballet.
26 April 2005

The Bluetones are the latest band to be added to the Keith Chaos Live festival bill with more to come.... The Bluetones remain one of biggest draws of the thriving UK rock underground and are a perfect fit for the event with their graceful, slightly psychedelic but muscular guitar pop.
26 April 2005

The Castle Gallery in Inverness is organising three weeks of Gaelic events from 10th June to 2nd July 2005.
22 April 2005

The planned tsunami disaster fundraising concert, due to be held in Clickimin Centre, Lerwick, Shetland on the 14th May, has been postponed for the time being.
22 April 2005

The Chairman of the Scottish Arts Council, Richard Holloway, welcomed today’s announcement of the appointment of four new members to the Council.
22 April 2005

Make sure you have your boarding pass ready, as Cinderella takes to the air in this comic version of the classic fairy tale of love and yearning, with is on tour from 9th to 18th June 2005.
21 April 2005

May 2005 (projected date 19th May) sees the launch of a re-print of Tain Through The Centuries, the history of Tain commissioned by Tain Town Council as part of their 9th Centenary Celebrations in 1966.
21 April 2005

You have been invited to hear more about the Dewar Awards at a special presentation at Eden Court Theatre, Inverness on 27 April.
21 April 2005

Voted 'Best Live Act' at the Scottish Traditional Music Awards, the Battlefield Band has been on the road for 35 years, and now on tour in a new collaboration with superbly talented and like- minded musicians from Uzbekistan.
21 April 2005

A return visit from Scotland's favourite improvisational comedian, Phil Kay will be appearing at Universal Hall in Findhorn on 29th April 2005.
20 April 2005

One of America’s most flamboyant and exciting musicians, Jason Ringenberg is set to make a return to Shetland in May 2005 for two shows.
20 April 2005

New Young Scot Action Fund encourages young people to get creative.
20 April 2005

Call for submissions for ten awards of £1,000 for Creativity & Well-Being are being made by engage Scotland.
19 April 2005

Arts in Motion's The Perfect Spot will be on tour as part of the Scottish Arts Council’s 2005/06 drama touring programme.
18 April 2005

On Saturday 14th May Edinburgh band STML play the Market Bar in Inverness.
18 April 2005

In an exciting initiative where art meets nature, paintings and drawings of scenes in the Atlantic oak woodlands of Argyll will be featured in a exhibition opening in Kilmartin on Saturday 23 April 2005.
15 April 2005

Youth Music UK has unveiled plans for a two-day music education conference in Scotland on May 17-18, in association with the Scottish Arts Council.
14 April 2005

Every night at midnight from 8th August to 17th September, nva, Scotland's acclaimed environmental arts company will be taking an audience on an extraordinary journey through the wild northern landforms of the Isle of Skye.
13 April 2005

'the wee things in life that make you happy' is an exhibition of new work by local artist Dawn Reade which will be shown at Tobermory Art on Isle of Mull from 24th May to 10th June 2005.
13 April 2005

Among the first confirmed of the exciting talents being lined up for the Blas Festival later this summer is the group, Dòchas.
13 April 2005

Two large Faroese choirs are due to visit Shetland on 22 and 23 April 2005 to perform concerts.
12 April 2005

Brand new regular drama workshops are starting in Ullapool on 4 May.
12 April 2005

The next Heritage Lottery Fund Advice Surgery in Inverness will be on the 27th of July at the Spectrum Centre.
12 April 2005

The Board of Scottish Opera has announced that it is now in a position to launch a search for a new Music Director to replace Sir Richard Armstrong who is to stand down after 12 years in the role.
11 April 2005

Whichever Way the Wind Blows, an Installation by Hugh Watt will be exhibited at An Tobar, Tobermory, Isle of Mull, from 8 April – 4 May 2005.
11 April 2005

The call is out for young performers - amateur and professional - to register their interest in participating at the Edinbane Festival from 1-2 July 2005.
11 April 2005

Campbeltown has been chosen as one of only six venues in Scotland to host a Touring Exhibition from 13 October to 19 November to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the end of World War II.
11 April 2005

Details of new venues and concerts are now firming up for this year’s Mull of Kintyre Music Festival in August.
11 April 2005

Plans to restore a derelict mill on the Isle of Raasay and turn it into a heritage centre for the island have received a boost with the award of a grant of £50,000.
08 April 2005

Highlands and Islands Enterprise and the Economic and Social Research Council are jointly funding research into the role of Gaelic language and culture in the development of the Highlands and Islands.
08 April 2005

On Saturday April 23 from 1pm till 5pm in the Elgin Community Centre, students of Moray College will be holding an Art Workshop for beginners.
08 April 2005

Landseer in the Highlands is the first exhibition ever to be devoted to the greatest British animal painter of the nineteenth century.
08 April 2005

This year’s Word Festival 13 – 15 May welcomes a host of renowned Gaelic writers and poets to the University of Aberdeen with a full day Gaelic Festival on Saturday 14 May.
08 April 2005

One of the UK’s leading music festivals has announced its full programme for 2005 that will see artists from Ireland, Spain and Australia appearing alongside top Scottish acts.
07 April 2005

The Independent on 19 March 2005 listed the 100 best reasons to visit Scotland’s cities and at number 28 is the Castle Gallery, Inverness.
07 April 2005

HI~Arts launches a brand new Mobile Cinema for the Highlands and Islands. On 15th April 2005, a brand new mobile cinema service, Screen Machine: Take Two, will take to the roads across the Highlands and Islands.
07 April 2005

Spanish guitarist and composer Eduardo Niebla will be appearing at the Universal Hall in Findhorn on Saturday 9th April 2005.
05 April 2005

Following the tragic death earlier this year of the inspirational multi-instrumentalist and composer Martyn Bennett, a benefit concert in his memory is to be held at the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, on 15 April at 7.30pm.
05 April 2005

For visual arts enthusiasts in the area, this year’s Open Art Fair in Inverness, is to be extended by three days to run from Saturday 4th June to Saturday 11th June.
04 April 2005

Six exceptional arts projects that will have a transforming impact for artists, audiences and local communities across Scotland have been awarded Scottish Arts Council National Lottery funding to develop their plans.
04 April 2005

Sheena Wellington will appear in concert at Pitlochry Festival Theatre on Friday April 8th.
01 April 2005