Early notice of Hoy Residential Weekend - Orkney Arts Development Service and The Pier Arts Centre are working in partnership to deliver the first Orkney Artist Support and Mentoring Programme.
28 July 2006

The Màiri Mhòr Gaelic Song Fellowship for Highland Council would like to invite you to the launch of a brand new and unique collection of Gaelic Song entitled “The Crunluath Collection”, on 29 July 2006 at 'Pipefest' in Inverness.
28 July 2006

Inverness Piping Society is to pilot an event in the city at the end of July 2006 designed to raise awareness of an interest in piping and pipe music.
28 July 2006

Jeff Healey Band, one of the world’s most celebrated blues-rock acts, will play an exclusive Scottish gig at Perth Concert Hall on Sunday 6 August 2006 – one of only three UK dates.
24 July 2006

A limited number of advance signed copies of Skye-based author Angus Peter Campbell's new work, Invisible Islands, are available now from www.invisibleislands.com
24 July 2006

Blas Festival today (24 July 2006) announced a significant two-year partnership with Clydesdale Bank in support of the Blas Festival during 2006 and 2007.
24 July 2006

As part of its 21st birthday celebrations, Fèis Rois, who run a dynamic year round programme of traditional music, song and dance, are once again taking their show on the road with their innovative Ceilidh Trail programme.

24 July 2006

Geordie comedian Ross Noble has announced another tour of the UK with his brand new stand-up show FIZZY LOGIC.
24 July 2006

Hank Wangford and Reg Meuross’ Eden Court In Exile concert at The Loft, Kinloss, on 21 August 2006, will no longer take place.
24 July 2006

Over the summer and throughout the year, Bogbain Adventure and Heritage Farm at Bogbain by Inshes, Inverness will be running activities for the young and not so young!
21 July 2006

A Festival that opens with “Genticorum” from Quebec, comedian Phil Kay, a Hebridean travel writer and a children’s show seems hardly the programme of a small island festival. That is only the first day. Coming along behind at a terrific pace are Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis, all three of the piping Macdonald brothers and a complete Book Festival.

21 July 2006

Artsplay Highland Training Days will be held on 27th and 28th September 2006 at Charleston Academy Community Complex in Inverness.
21 July 2006

The 3rd annual ‘Shetland Fiddle Frenzy’, Shetland’s very own traditional fiddle school and music / cultural festival takes place this year from 7th – 13th August 2006, in venues and areas all over Shetland.
21 July 2006

Video Streaming is the way of broadcasting video across the Internet and allows anyone to produce movies for a worldwide audience online. Channel 4 are offering 6 places on a custom-made film streaming course, Highland Stream, to be run in Inverness on 3rd & 10th September, which will culminate with participants’ films being shown on Channel 4’s website.


18 July 2006

Highland 2007, the year Scotland celebrates Highland culture has adopted The Golden Broom tartan created by Mulbuie Primary school as its official tartan.
17 July 2006

The Art Society of Inverness is holding its annual exhibition of members’ work from 25 July to 11 August 2006.
17 July 2006

Leading Scottish band, Capercaillie, will perform a one-off benefit gig to raise funds for Friends of the Earth Scotland on 28 July 2006 in Glasgow.
17 July 2006

IDEASFACTORY: HIGHLAND STREAM is a web streaming course for short film-makers based in the Highlands and Islands from 3-10 September 2006.
17 July 2006

Shetland Arts are calling for entries to the 2006 Shetland Writing Prize.
12 July 2006

Top San Francisco band are bound for two Highland dates in July 2006.
12 July 2006

One of rural Scotland’s most contemporary and innovative art galleries, the Watermill Gallery in Aberfeldy, will be holding a solo exhibition by the iconic environmental artist Lotte Glob, from 6 August to 13 September 2006.

12 July 2006

On Tuesday 18th July 2006, Inverness and area Film Fans (IFF!) starts a new chapter in its development, when the first of its regular fortnightly screenings takes place at the Screen Machine, by the Floral Hall at Bught Park, Inverness.
12 July 2006

The secound wave of initiatives to be funded by the Gaelic Arts Strategic Development (GASD) Forum were publicly announced at the Ceolas Summer School on Thursday 6th July 2006.
12 July 2006

Eden Court in Exile presents Chris and Thomas at the Swallow Crown Court Hotel, Inverness on Wednesday 9 August at 8pm.
12 July 2006

Wordplay 2005 star Christopher Brookmyre has won the seventh Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction with his novel All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye.
10 July 2006

Fancy dancing with some of the world’s top choreographers? Having your steps viewed by over 50,000 people? Then step inside the ‘Move Me’ booth.
10 July 2006

The Inverness Spectrum Centre drama studio will host an unusual concert and workshop on Thursday 27 July 2006 by a duo whose strong rhythms and melodies take influences from all round the world.
10 July 2006

Hit Gaelic comedy show Comadaidh Óir (the Comedy Unit & MNE for BBC Alba) is back and needs you to decide who to crown!
10 July 2006

Children and families in the Inverness Area will have a choice of live family favourite shows in community centres over the coming weeks.
10 July 2006

Would you like to do voluntary work for 2 or 3 hours a week with perhaps one of the most rewarding groups of people around - adults with learning disabilites? If so - or if you would simply like to find out more about such opportunities - you might like to come along to an informative talk by the FALCON Project on Wednesday 19 July, Volunteering Highland, Millburn Road, Inverness, at 7pm.

07 July 2006

A new CD release from the Lochaber Cèilidh Trail Band celebrates their  work in Lochaber and serves to highlight the wonderful talent that is emerging in the Highlands today.
07 July 2006

Fèis Alba 2006, a high quality training opportunity for young musicians, organised by Fèisean nan Gàidheal, is currently taking place.
07 July 2006

DIRTY 'ARRY, the ‘with attitude’ rock covers band from Wiltshire, had such a great tour of Scotland last year that they are heading north again in July 2006 for a ten day tour.
05 July 2006

BBC New Talent, in conjunction with BBC Radio 2, is giving non-professional singers and performers the opportunity to compete for a place in the acclaimed BBC Radio 2 Voice of Musical Theatre competition.
05 July 2006

Key professionals from the music industry are to be joined by leading journalists in providing a unique workshop at this year's Hebridean Celtic Festival.
05 July 2006

Are you interested in furthering the Gaelic language in your own community? Moray Firth Media Trust is looking to develop a fluent Gaelic speaker as a radio broadcaster.
05 July 2006

Fèisean nan Gàidheal, the National Association of the Fèis movement has appointed John Jo MacNeil, to work alongside the Fèis Bharraigh committee to undertake an exciting new project on the island.
05 July 2006

Highland based music site www.scotloads.co.uk  are looking for local venues and fans to get involved in promoting Scottish talent over the internet.

Headlining the Mull of Kintyre Music Festival this year are Idlewild, Eddi Reader and Blazin` Fiddles.
03 July 2006

Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Arts Centre, in the Isle of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides, welcomes back basketmaker Lise Bech with a new solo exhibition featuring her recent exploration of organic assymetric forms entitled PODS-COLCHUILL from 8 July to 26 August 2006.
03 July 2006

Scottish Ska sensations, “This R 2-Tone”, who played to 25,000 revellers as part of the 2005/6 Edinburgh Hogmanay celebrations, have just been booked to play in the Victoria Hall in Campbletown on July 22nd 2006.
03 July 2006

Belladrum Festival has confirmed current chart hits The Automatic for the line-up of its two day festival in the Scottish Highlands on August 11 and 12th, together with reggae legend Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry in his only festival appearance in the UK this year.
03 July 2006

There is loads on this summer for all ages at the Craigmonie Centre, Glen Urquhart High School - Drumnadrochit, Loch Ness.
03 July 2006