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Arts and Culture

Just a few of the artists who have performed Scotsman Sessions

The Scotsman Sessions: links to numbers 1-350

Lucie Hendry

The Scotsman Sessions #367: Lucie Hendry

Alec Dalglish of Skerryvore

The Scotsman Sessions #366: Alec Dalglish

Dan Willson, aka Withered Hand

The Scotsman Sessions #365: Withered Hand

Brìghde Chaimbeul

The Scotsman Sessions #364: Brìghde Chaimbeul

Rachael and Paul Swinton, aka Cloth

The Scotsman Sessions #363: Cloth

Ian Donaldson

The Scotsman Sessions #362: Ian Donaldson

Dance North Youth Company perform Savage

The Scotsman Sessions #361: Dance North Youth Company

Carla Rees

The Scotsman Sessions #360: Carla Rees

Ross Wilson

The Scotsman Sessions #359: Ross Wilson

Music

Musicians David Foley, Josie Duncan and Cammy Barnes launch The Reeling festival in Rouken Glen Park. Picture: John Devlin

Stage set for new festival in one of Scotland's biggest public parks

Svend McEwan-Brown, East Neuk Festival director, pictured at The Bowhouse PIC: Colin Hattersley Photography

East Neuk Festival director Svend McEwan-Brown on blurring musical boundaries

The Doune The Rabbit Hole Festival is due to return to the Cardross Estate, near Stirling, in July. Picture: Ryan Buchanan

Union issues warning to 'avoid' controversial Scottish music festival

Murrayfield Ice Rink will be turned into a Fringe venue this August.

12 of of the most unusual venues at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Cris Peploe and Martha Haskins pose with a large-scale version of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 programme cover in Anchor Close in the city's Old Town. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Festival Fringe chief insists ‘recovering’ event does not have to get bigger

Cris Peploe, Claudia Cawthorne and Martha Haskins pose with a large-scale version of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 programme cover in the Old Town. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Plenty room for optimism as Fringe reaches a crossroads - Brian Ferguson

Le Tigre PIC: Monica Simoes

Music review: Le Tigre, Barrowland, Glasgow

Books

Douglas Jackson PIC: Ian Rutherford / The Scotsman

Book review: The Barbarian, by Douglas Jackson

Rebecca Smith

Book review: Rural, by Rebecca Smith

Alexander McCall Smith. Picture: Jayne Wright/JPIMedia

Book review: The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf, by Alexander McCall Smith

Dee Hepburn and John Gordon Sinclair starred in Gregory's Girl. Picture: The Kobal Collection

Being Gregory: Origins of Scottish comedy classic explored in new book

Film and TV

10 things Sam Heughan has said about the hit series Outlander

A weekend of free film screenings will be staged in St Andrew Square in Edinburgh later this month.

Edinburgh to revive free outdoor cinema screenings ahead

Five actors touted to play James Bond 007 in the future including James Norton

Theatre and Stage

Meghan Tyler

Meghan Tyler on new play Bloodbank: 'There is a darkness to it'

The cruise liner Ambition will become a floating hotel in Leith for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Leith Docks lined up for cruise liner ‘FringeShip’

The Devil Drinks Cava PIC: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

Theatre reviews: The Devil in the Belfry and The Devil Drinks Cava

The Tinderbox Orchestra will be appearig at the Edinburgh Central Library during this year's Fringe. Picture: Colin Hattersley

Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Stand-out shows in the global cultural celebration

I... Er... Me PIC: Anne Harbers

Theatre reviews: I... Er... Me | The Problem With Pink | Bully Bully

Morna Young is adapting the Lewis Grassic Gibbon novel Sunset Song for a new stage production.

Writer Morna Young to become first woman to adapt Sunset Song for the stage

Mara Huf and Cal MacAninch in rehearsals for Childminder

Cal MacAninch on starring in supernatural thriller ChildMinder

Art

Crawick Multiverse PIC: Mike Bolam

Arts and science meet at Crawick Multiverse's summer solstice celebration

Raeburn's Edinburgh at the Georgian House features probably his most revered work - his portrait of his Mrs James Gregory - or Isobella Macleod . The artist is pictured right.

Raeburn's Edinburgh and a long gaze into the city that made an artist

Installation view of work by James Epps in the 2023 GSA MFA show PIC: Alan McAteer

Art reviews: Glasgow School of Art Degree Show & MFA Degree Show

The exhibition The Fashion Show: Everything But The Clothes, which has been curated by fashion writer and editor Iain R Webb, is at V&A Dundee until January. Picture: Julie Howden

Visual diary of fashion industry opened for new V&A Dundee exhibition

Edinburgh Festivals

Edinburgh has been staging a Hogmanay festival since 1993. Picture: Chris Watt

New organisers set to win control of Christmas and Hogmanay festivals till 2030

Viggo Venn will play Edinburgh this year. Credit: Viggo Venn/Edinburgh Fringe

Viggo Venn: Here's to see Britain's Got Talent winner in Scotland

Anton Du Beke is the latest big name to be confirmed for this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Strictly favourite Anton Du Beke to star this year

Swedish climate activist and author Greta Thunberg, who made rose to fame when she began skipping school as a 15-year-old to protest each week against inaction on climate targets outside Sweden's parliament. Picture: Kim Jakobsen To

Climate activist Greta Thunberg to star at Edinburgh International Book Festival

Rose Matafeo won the main Edinburgh Comedy Awards prize for best show in 2018.

Comics who owe their careers to the Fringe should help keep awards going

One-stop shop for Edinburgh Fringe festival tickets: exclusive membership discounts - some seats from £5

Ad Feature One stop shop for discount tickets to Edinburgh Fringe shows

Edinburgh's Hidden Door festival, which has taken over the former Scottish Widows headquarters on Dalkeith Road, will be running until Sunday. Picture: Chris Scott

Hidden Door: Festival unveils transformation of former Scottish Widows HQ

More Arts and Culture

This will be your only chance to see the entire collection in one viewing

Ad Feature Sheep flock to Ingliston for one-time-only RHS exhibition

Michaela, Julia, Lucy and Ashlie in front of the Moulin Rouge Pic: ©Philippe Wojazer - Moulin Rouge

The four Scottish Moulin Rouge dancers on being part of the Paris show

Chevalier

Film reviews: Chevalier | War Pony | Transformers: Rise of the Beasts | Spider-M...

A Nuart Aberdeen mural by Helen Bur from 2021. Image: Brian Tallman

Everything you need to know about Nuart Aberdeen 2023

The Bluebells PIC: Brian Sweeney

Music review: The Bluebells, St Luke's, Glasgow

Royal Blood's sarcastic response to their Dundee audience made them look like prats, writes Aidan Smith.

Royal Blood felt the wrath just like Shirley Bassey and Keith Richards

Martin Frizell, pictured with his wife Fiona Phillips. (Credit: Getty Images)

Who is Scottish This Morning producer Martin Frizell?

The Craft, released in 1995, is now seen as a modern day classic. Credit: Netflix.

Five modern horror classics you can stream this summer

Arctic Monkeys Glasgow: Latest setlist and current concert timings

How do I get ITVX on my TV, what number is ITVX on freeview