Feb 4, 2019
Scotland’s Festival Village is set to welcome an all-star line-up to play at the newly revived Moniaive Guitar Festival which starts on Valentine’s Day. They include the world’s best Celtic guitarist Tony McManus, the greatest living fingerstyle guitarist Duck Baker,...
Feb 1, 2019
The third annual D-Lux Festival of Light burst into life last night when video games broke free from household screens and consoles and onto the streets of Dumfries. This year’s after dark festival, which is free and runs from 31 January to 2 February and takes place...
Jan 15, 2019
One of Scotland’s most distinguished broadcast journalists, Allan Little, will discuss The Power of Conversation at a special event in Dumfries. The evening, at Easterbrook Hall on 22 January, will mark the Dumfries and Galloway launch of a national and international...
Jan 8, 2019
Scotland’s renowned The Bookshop Band is touring some of the finest bookstores and libraries across the USA with its repertoire of songs inspired by literature. Folk duo Ben Please and Beth Porter perform across the UK and Europe – and have frequently appeared on...
Jan 7, 2019
A series of festivals and events in Dumfries and Galloway generated more than £6m for the local and Scottish economy in late 2018. The analysis from Dumfries and Galloway Council shows that the 20thannual Wigtown Book Festival had an economic impact of £3.75m, the...
Dec 23, 2018
Cornet’s Lass Krystal Anderson, mounted on a white horse, is set to carry the Lockerbie Standard on a Journey for Peace A rider on a white horse will join young people, parents and grandparents and others, carrying the flags of the nations which lost people in the...
