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Arts and Culture

Just a few of the artists who have performed Scotsman Sessions

The Scotsman Sessions: links to numbers 1-350

Ross Wilson
Ross Wilson

The Scotsman Sessions #359: Ross Wilson

Lichen Slow
Lichen Slow

The Scotsman Sessions #358: Lichen Slow

Alasdair Roberts
Alasdair Roberts

The Scotsman Sessions #357: Alasdair Roberts

Shambolics
Shambolics

The Scotsman Sessions #356: Shambolics

Declan McKay
Declan McKay

The Scotsman Sessions #355: Declan McKay

Juliette Lemoine
Juliette Lemoine

The Scotsman Sessions #354: Juliette Lemoine

Kevin P Gilday
Kevin P Gilday

The Scotsman Sessions #353: Kevin P Gilday

LT Leif
LT Leif

The Scotsman Sessions #352: LT Leif

Erland Cooper
Erland Cooper

The Scotsman Sessions #351: Erland Cooper

Music

Scott William Urquhart and Constant Follower PIC: Jai Ohare
Scott William Urquhart and Constant Follower PIC: Jai Ohare

Album reviews: Scott William Urquhart & Constant Follower | boygenius

Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! - which stars Rebekah Hinds and Bronté Barbé - will be among the Fringe hits returning this year. Picture: Mihaela Bodlovic
Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! - which stars Rebekah Hinds and Bronté Barbé - will be among the Fringe hits returning this year. Picture: Mihaela Bodlovic

Edinburgh Festival Fringe: More than 1200 shows are already on sale

Writer Andrew O'Hagan. Picture: Jon Tonks/PA Wire
Writer Andrew O'Hagan. Picture: Jon Tonks/PA Wire

Mayflies author Andrew O’Hagan to launch new Truman Capote play at the Fringe

Saltfishforty and Esther Swift playing at Letham Nights, near Cupar, in Fife, recently
Saltfishforty and Esther Swift playing at Letham Nights, near Cupar, in Fife, recently

Vital support for village hall music venues can go a long way – Brian Ferguson

An in-depth documentary on Scottish hitmaker Lewis Capaldi is set to hit Netflix next month (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)
An in-depth documentary on Scottish hitmaker Lewis Capaldi is set to hit Netflix next month (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Here is when you can see Lewis Capaldi's new Netflix documentary

Who will take top spot in our reader's list of best Scottish bands and musicians? Cr: Getty Images
Who will take top spot in our reader's list of best Scottish bands and musicians? Cr: Getty Images

These are the 25 best Scottish bands or artists ever

Scotland has been the birthplace for numerous popular musicians. But who is the best? (Photo credit should read ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Scotland has been the birthplace for numerous popular musicians. But who is the best? (Photo credit should read ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP via Getty Images)

These are the 10 best Scottish musicians ever - as voted for by Scotsman readers

Books

Alan Warner PIC: Jayne Wright
Alan Warner PIC: Jayne Wright

Book review: Nothing Left to Fear From Hell, by Alan Warner

Leila Aboulela PIC: Pako Mera/Shutterstock
Leila Aboulela PIC: Pako Mera/Shutterstock

Book review: River Spirit, by Leila Aboulela

Lizzy and the Cloud by the Fan Brothers
Lizzy and the Cloud by the Fan Brothers

The Best Children's Books for the Easter Holidays

Children can learn a lot from story-writing workshops, like this one at Borders Book Festival
Children can learn a lot from story-writing workshops, like this one at Borders Book Festival

A revolutionary literacy project is helping children become published authors

Film and TV

Forty years of Local Hero will be celebrated in Pennan in Aberdeenshire this year. Picture: Ewen Weatherspoon
Forty years of Local Hero will be celebrated in Pennan in Aberdeenshire this year. Picture: Ewen Weatherspoon

Forty years of Local Hero to be celebrated with events in north-east locations

V&A Dundee's new exhibition Tartan runs from 1 April till 14 January. Picture: Michael McGurk
V&A Dundee's new exhibition Tartan runs from 1 April till 14 January. Picture: Michael McGurk

Scotland's biggest celebration of tartan unveiled at V&A Dundee

Alan Cumming wore tartan to pick up his OBE at Buckingham Palace in 2009. He decided to hand back the honour several months ago. Picture: Dominic Lipinski
Alan Cumming wore tartan to pick up his OBE at Buckingham Palace in 2009. He decided to hand back the honour several months ago. Picture: Dominic Lipinski

Alan Cumming hails power and ‘subversive’ nature of tartan

Theatre and Stage

Daibhidh Walker, Sam Jams Smith and Dòl Eoin MacKinnon in rehearsals for Stornoway, Quebec PIC: Rhona Dougall
Daibhidh Walker, Sam Jams Smith and Dòl Eoin MacKinnon in rehearsals for Stornoway, Quebec PIC: Rhona Dougall

Stornoway, Quebec: The making of a 'Gaelic Western'

Edinburgh's festivals celebrated their 75th anniversary last year. (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
Edinburgh's festivals celebrated their 75th anniversary last year. (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Edinburgh Festival Fringe reaches “crisis point” as new financial plea is issued

Scottish actor Brian Cox is never short of a decent quote.
Scottish actor Brian Cox is never short of a decent quote.

13 funny and interesting quotes from Succession star Brian Cox

Protesters gathered outside the boarded-up Filmhouse earlier this month to call for the boarded-cinema to be saved. Picture: Annabelle Gauntlett.
Protesters gathered outside the boarded-up Filmhouse earlier this month to call for the boarded-cinema to be saved. Picture: Annabelle Gauntlett.

National 'protest for the arts' to be staged in Edinburgh beside Filmhouse

Andrew Keay and Louise Haggerty in Spin!
Andrew Keay and Louise Haggerty in Spin!

Theatre reviews: Spin!, Tron Theatre, Glasgow and The Third Sister, Dundee Rep

Marc Jennings
Marc Jennings

Glasgow Comedy Festival review: Marc Jennings, King’s Theatre, Glasgow

Meghan Tyler and Simon Donaldson in Variant PIC: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan
Meghan Tyler and Simon Donaldson in Variant PIC: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

Theatre reviews: Variant | Unbecoming | Annie

Art

Untitled by Sammy Baloji - 41 copper shell casings (1914-1918 & 1939-1945), indoor plants, part of The Accursed Share at Talbot Rice PIC: Aurelien Mole
Untitled by Sammy Baloji - 41 copper shell casings (1914-1918 & 1939-1945), indoor plants, part of The Accursed Share at Talbot Rice PIC: Aurelien Mole

Art reviews: The Accursed Share | Sebastiàn Díaz Morales

Inma from Red Point Tattoo, London. Pic: Bart Masiukiewicz aka Pictures in Blood.
Inma from Red Point Tattoo, London. Pic: Bart Masiukiewicz aka Pictures in Blood.

We visit the Scottish Tattoo Convention 2023

John McLeish, chair of the Scottish Tartans authority, V&A Dundee curator James Wylie and tartan historian Peter MacDonald have a close look at the Glen Affric tartan. Picture: Alan Richardson
John McLeish, chair of the Scottish Tartans authority, V&A Dundee curator James Wylie and tartan historian Peter MacDonald have a close look at the Glen Affric tartan. Picture: Alan Richardson

Research reveals Scotland's oldest tartan was found in Highland peatbog

Moving On, by Lotte Glob
Moving On, by Lotte Glob

Art reviews: Lotte Glob | New Contemporaries

Edinburgh Festivals

Scottish contemporary dance artist Charlotte Mclean presented the world premiere of her solo work 'And' at Dance Base is Edinburgh as part of a previous Made in Scotland Showcase at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire
Scottish contemporary dance artist Charlotte Mclean presented the world premiere of her solo work 'And' at Dance Base is Edinburgh as part of a previous Made in Scotland Showcase at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Assembly to expand into Dance Base this summer

Dame Judi Dench. Picture: Dan Kitwood
Dame Judi Dench. Picture: Dan Kitwood

Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Dame Judi Dench to appear in stage show

Crowds throng the Royal Mile during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
Crowds throng the Royal Mile during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Questions are stacking up for Fringe Society over government-funded HQ

The show BullyBully will be part of this year's Edinburgh International Children’s Festival. Picture: Kamerich & Budwilowitz
The show BullyBully will be part of this year's Edinburgh International Children’s Festival. Picture: Kamerich & Budwilowitz

Children's festival tackles 'childish' world leaders, climate change and gender

A crowdfunding campaign is underway to support Devine Tension's new promenade performance show Passion Project.
A crowdfunding campaign is underway to support Devine Tension's new promenade performance show Passion Project.

Culture crowdfunders launched for drag queen, pop-up cinema and railway mural

Actress Tilda Swinton. Picture: Marc Piasecki
Actress Tilda Swinton. Picture: Marc Piasecki

Tilda Swinton: 'Invaluable' Filmhouse should not be sold to highest bidder

Protesters gathered outside the boarded-up cinema on Sunday to call for the Filmhouse to be saved and not sold for a pub. Picture: Annabelle Gauntlett.
Protesters gathered outside the boarded-up cinema on Sunday to call for the Filmhouse to be saved and not sold for a pub. Picture: Annabelle Gauntlett.

Edinburgh Filmhouse: SNP demands building reopens as art house cinema

More Arts and Culture

Alan Spence PIC: Lisa Ferguson
Alan Spence PIC: Lisa Ferguson

Book review: Mister Timeless Blyth, by Alan Spence

Netflix are launching a host of great movies on their platform in April.
Netflix are launching a host of great movies on their platform in April.

Here are 10 of the best new release films coming to Netflix in April

Mia Goth shines in Brandon Cronenberg's Infinity Pool.
Mia Goth shines in Brandon Cronenberg's Infinity Pool.

(Not) Everyone's A Film Critic: Keanu Reeves, Infinity Pool and The Beasts

Rivers Cuomo of Weezer in Las Vegas, Nevada, on 2 July, 2005 PIC: Bryan Haraway/Getty Images
Rivers Cuomo of Weezer in Las Vegas, Nevada, on 2 July, 2005 PIC: Bryan Haraway/Getty Images

Book review: Fade Into You, by Catriona Child

Stateless, by Elizabeth Wein
Stateless, by Elizabeth Wein

The Best Books for Teens this Easter

A host of great new series are set to land on Netflix in April. Cr: Netflix.
A host of great new series are set to land on Netflix in April. Cr: Netflix.

Here are 9 of the best new series coming to Netflix in April 2023

Among other things, Linda Cracknell fixes her powers of description on the tiny, "tangly forests" of moss and lichen growing on the slopes of Sgòr Gaoith in the Cairngorms PIC: Damien Meyer / AFP via Getty Images
Among other things, Linda Cracknell fixes her powers of description on the tiny, "tangly forests" of moss and lichen growing on the slopes of Sgòr Gaoith in the Cairngorms PIC: Damien Meyer / AFP via Getty Images

Book review: Writing Landscape, by Linda Cracknell

Tetris
Tetris

Film reviews: Tetris | Dungeons and Dragons | John Wick: Chapter 4

Comedien Paul O’Grady (Photo by Stuart C. Wilson - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Comedien Paul O’Grady (Photo by Stuart C. Wilson - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Paul O'Grady: 10 of the funniest and best quotes from the much-loved comedian

Paul O'Grady collecting the best Factual Entertainment programme award on stage during the 2014 National Television Awards at the O2 Arena, London.
Paul O'Grady collecting the best Factual Entertainment programme award on stage during the 2014 National Television Awards at the O2 Arena, London.

A life in pictures as Paul O’Grady dies at the age of 67