Early bird ticket opportunities for adults are still available for this year’s Blas festival, but only until the last day of July, when the offer closes.

The Outer Hebrides are going toe-to-toe with Scotland’s two biggest cities to be crowned as home of the country’s best major public festival. For the Hebridean Celtic Festival has been shortlisted, with Edinburgh’s Hogmanay and Glasgow’s Celtic Connections, for the title of Best Large Festival in the prestigious Scottish Event Awards. Held in Stornoway – […]

It’s that time of year, wash away those summer blues with lots of fantastic workshops to get stuck into at The Bike Shed.

Orkney, 17 – 23 June 2011.

“How many islands can you set foot on in the space of two weeks?” That’s the question music festival fans Jim Campbell and Brian Ferguson have set themselves for HitchHop – a hitch-hiking island-hopping challenge they are embarking on in the west coast of Scotland this July, in aid of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

Inshriach Estate, near Aviemore, 17-20 June 2011.

FERGUS FEGGANS captures the atmosphere and the action at RockNess.

Dores, Loch Ness, 10-12 June 2011.

The Southern Hebrides are celebrating island culture and heritage through numerous events over the forthcoming months as part of the Year of Scotland’s Islands.

As part of the Year of Scotland’s Islands, Arran and Bute are hosting key events in order to showcase islands’ rich culture and heritage to both locals and visitors.