Join us as we highlight the news from the world of music, opera, dance theatre and film.
Having grown from relatively modest beginnings in 1994, Celtic Connections is the world’s premier folk and roots music festival, this year welcoming around 1,200 musicians and artists from 20 countries for 300 events in 25 venues across Glasgow.
In a beautiful production taking ordinary objects and making them extraordinary and magical, Barrowland Ballet return to Edinburgh’s The Studio theatre with their award-winning production, The Gift.
A new music festival has kicked-off in Edinburgh: The Soundhouse Winter Festival features big names alongside up-and-coming artists from across Scotland.
Edinburgh’s Christmas-Hogmanay pantomime returns with a reliably spectacular family panto, Cinderella.
The festival of new music Deep Time returns to Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket, inspired by composer John Cage and artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, who made their marks there 1984.
Scottish Country-folk duo Mist & Wing – Alan and Grace Murray – are launching a new single, Fade, with a short Scottish tour.
With the world’s largest arts festival happening in Edinburgh in August, the only question is where to start. Veteran festival critic Susan Mansfield selects highlights for Artmag readers from across the Festivals.
Midlands-based writer/performer Naomi Paul makes a culinary journey from the Baltic to Birmingham.
An immersive visual art and sound experience will launch Scottish harpist Esther Swift’s debut solo album.
Rising Scottish traditional music stars are due to play in Glasgow as The Reeling festival returns to the city’s Rouken Glen Park for a second year.
One of the United States’ founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton, is portrayed in the blockbuster musical Hamilton, at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre.
Edinburgh’s Queen’s Hall is set to host Dutch violinist and composer Tim Kliphuis, who will debut his re-working of Modeste Mussorgsky’s 19th-century masterpiece Pictures at an Exhibition.
Established in 1994, Celtic Connections’ upcoming programme promises the brightest mix of legendary Scottish and international music stars from the Folk firmament and beyond.
Scottish Ensemble’s Scotland-wide tour of Concerts by Candlelight series returns with the theme of Music for Warmth and Restoration.
WIN! Treat yourself-plus-one to a special holiday performance, with a pair of choice seats to Scottish Ensemble’s Candlelit Concerts.
Making its debut at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket, Deep Time is a festival of new music, featuring commissions and performances from leading radical and experimental composers, musicians and improvisers.
Musician Aidan O’Rourke is transforming National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh’s reading rooms into musical performance spaces for storytelling, music and song.
The new Haddington Concert Society 2023/24 season once again offers chamber music of the highest calibre performed by musicians well-known on the world stage, and outstanding young musicians.
‘Fridays at One’ is an opportunity to join the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) in Glasgow as they showcase talent from their students, faculty, alumni and guest artists.
Traditional music promoters The Soundhouse Organisation continue their Monday evening concert series at the Traverse in Edinburgh.
The BBC SSO continues its new season in Glasgow and Aberdeen, with Berlioz’s blockbuster Symphonie Fantastique.
The world premiere of National Theatre of Scotland’s new take on Dracula, the action is relocated to the wild beauty of Aberdeenshire – reportedly the inspiration for the classic novel.
Twenty years after its last full-scale production, Tally’s Blood follows the lives of an Italian immigrant family in Scotland from the 1930s to the 1950s, at Perth Theatre.
The Sunday Classics season at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall features music from around the world.
