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Aberdeen International Youth Festival |
Youth arts festival which attracts the world's leading youth arts groups. |
| Aberdeen Jazz Festival |
Jazz festival held in March each year. |
| Aberdour Festival |
Long running summer festival, held in Aberdour on the Fife coast. |
| Big Big Country |
Glasgow's International Festival of Americana, held annually during May. |
| Big Big World |
Festival of world music, held in Glasgow each August. |
| Big in Falkirk |
Scotland's national street arts festival. |
| Brechin Arts Festival |
Annual festival held in Brechin in Angus. |
| Buckie Festival |
Festival held in the harbour town of Buckie on the Moray Firth. |
| Burns an' a' That! |
Every year in May, this festival brings together international performers with local people to celebrate Scottish life and culture. |
| Burnsong |
A new event celebrating contemporary music and song to be held in Dumfries in November 2005. |
| ButeLive Festival |
Music and arts festival held in July on the Isle of Bute. |
| Ceilidh Culture |
Edinburgh's annual showcase of traditional arts, held during March and April. |
| Celtic Connections |
Glasgow's international traditional music festival and one of the largest winter festivals of its kind in the world. It takes place in January. |
| Children's International Theatre Festival |
Annual festival based in Edinburgh held during May/June, featuring international theatre for children and young people. |
| Dumfries & Galloway Arts Festival |
Long established multi-arts festival, which celebrated it's 25th anniversary in summer 2004. |
| Dundee Guitar Festival |
An annual festival which celebrates the guitar in its many forms. |
| Dundee Jazz Festival |
Annual jazz festival held in Dundee, focussing on high quality music and musicians and a range of styles. |
| Edinbane Festival |
Annual midsummer festival held on the Isle of Skye. |
| Edinburgh Festivals |
The official joint listings website for all the Edinburgh festivals - Film, Science, International, Jazz, Book, Mela, Fringe, Children's, the Tattoo and Edinburgh's Hogmanay. |
| Edinburgh Mela |
Scotland's biggest intercultural festival, held in September. |
| Edinburgh International Film Festival |
The longest continually running film festival in the world, part of Edinburgh's August festival season. |
| Edinburgh International Festival |
Founded in 1947, showing opera, theatre, music and dance for three weeks each summer. |
| Edinburgh Festival Fringe |
Selling over one million tickets, now one of the biggest arts festivals in the world. |
| Edinburgh International Jazz and Blues Festival |
Part of Edinburgh's festival season, featuring jazz artists from Scotland and further afield. |
| Edinburgh International Book Festival |
The book festival is a key event in the Edinburgh festival season and runs for two weeks in August. |
| Edinburgh International Harp Festival |
Annual festival held in Edinburgh during May. |
| Feis an Eilein |
Annual music and arts festival held in July on the Isle of Skye. |
| Fèisean nan Gàidheal |
The National Association of Gaelic Arts Youth Tuition Festivals. |
| GaelForce |
Festival of arts and entertainment, running for over two months in the late summer and early autumn. |
| Glasgay! |
Scotland's annual celebration of queer culture. |
| Glasgow International Jazz Festival |
Annual jazz festival taking place during July in Glasgow. |
| Halloween in Huntly |
A petrifying contemporary arts festival combining visual art, fire sculpture, film, music, storytelling, workshops and a parade through the historic town from Huntly Castle to the town square for a frightening finale. |
| The Hairst |
Annual arts festival, held in Angus in July and August. |
| Hebridean Celtic Festival |
A four-day musical celebration based in Stornoway. |
| Isle of Bute Jazz Festival |
Long-running jazz festival held annually in May. |
| Kaleidoscope Festival |
International children's festival, based in Aberdeen, which offers children in North East Scotland the opportunity to experience theatre and the performing arts. |
| Kill Your Timid Notion |
Dundee-based festival featuring experimental forms of music and moving images. |
| Kirkmichael International Guitar Festival |
Festival held in Ayrshire during June. |
| Leith Festival |
Annual multi-arts festival, providing a week of music, arts, culture and family fun throughout Leith, Edinburgh, in June. |
| Mendelssohn on Mull |
Annual festival held on Mull during June/July. |
| Nairn International Jazz Festival |
Jazz festival taking place during August in Nairn. Telephone contact 01309 674221. |
| New Kirkcudbright International Festival |
International arts festival based in Kirkcudbright, in the south west of Scotland. |
| New Territories |
Scotland’s international festival of live arts, based at the Tramway in Glasgow, during March. |
| Orkney Folk Festival |
A folk festival taking place in Orkney during May. |
| Perth Festival of the Arts |
Annual arts festival, held in May in Perth, Scotland. |
| Piping Live |
New international piping festival, launched in 2004, based in Glasgow. |
| Puppet Animation Festival |
The UK's oldest and largest performing arts festival for children and young people. |
| Royal Burgh of Pittenweem Arts Festival |
Annual August festival, held in Fife, with visual arts, music and drama events. |
| Scottish International Storytelling Festival |
Annual festival held in October, with events for adults and children, including National Tell a Story Day. |
| Shetland Folk Festival |
Annual festival held in Shetland during May. |
| Sound Festival |
Contemporary music festival in North East Scotland |
| St Magnus Festival |
Orkney's midsummer festival of the arts. |
| StAnza |
Held each March in the ancient university town of St Andrews, this is the only regular festival dedicated to poetry in Scotland. |
The Land, The Light and
The Locals |
The Scottish Borders New Year festival. |
| TMSA |
The Traditional Music & Song Association holds regular events and festivals across Scotland. |
| Tryptych |
A festival showcasing international and local talent, held in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. |
| West End Festival |
Glasgow-based festival, held in June, including the midsummer carnival. |
| Wigtown Literary Festival |
This festival is held annually in September and has expanded from the traditional three days, to ten days. |
| Winter Words Festival |
Highland Perthshire's very own literature festival, held in January at Pitlochry Festival Theatre. |
| The Word Festival |
One of Scotland's most popular literary events held annually in May at the University of Aberdeen and various other venues across the city. |