CATRIONA PAUL discovers a wealth of potential talent for the future of Scottish film at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival

The beautiful island of Islay is famous for several things, including its whisky, but STUART TODD explains how it also came to have one of the most attractive jazz festivals in Scotland

Quarks, strangeness and charm (or, how your doctor might be writing novels in his/her spare time): ANNE MACLEOD ponders the complex relationship between her dual roles as medical practitioner and creative writer, and finds an answer to the fundamental question posed by her mischievous colleague in Stromness – why bother with books?

CATRIONA PAUL checks out the Highlands and Islands input to a couple of less fashionable events in either side of the border September

KENNY MATHIESON runs an eye over the latest offerings from Ken Ramage’s annual Nairn swingfest

Festival Director JASON ROSE lays out his plans for the inaugural Inverness Book Festival in October

ALISTAIR PEEBLES looks ahead to a year of temporary change at the St Magnus Festival in 2005

Festival organiser JOE GIBBS explains why the TARTAN HEART FESTIVAL at Belladrum is going to be the Highlands’ big music occasion of 2004, and all in a good cause.

PETER URPETH looks forward to another mass outbreak of Celtic music in the big tent at Lews Castle as the HEBRIDEAN CELTIC FESTIVAL gets underway

Working Wonders on Orkney ALISTAIR PEEBLES looks ahead to a busy programme of music and theatre at the 27th St Magnus Festival in Orkney, including a large scale community production of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt   I READ WITH interest recently that a new production of Peer Gynt had opened in Edinburgh, with a cast of […]