The Torchlight Procession - returning in 2025 - is the opening event in the annual Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations with thousands of torchbearers creating a "river of fire" from The Meadows through ...

"Edinburgh's Christmas" is a package of Yuletide themed events, run by Unique Assembly on behalf of Edinburgh City Council. Historically, the festival runs from the third week in November, through St ...

Extreme weather may have shut down the main Hogmanay events last year - for the third time in the thirty year festival - but plans are going ahead for Edinburgh's Hogmanay 2025-2026. Traditionally, ...

Unlike the Loony Dook at South Queensferry, the Portobello or "Porty" Dook has always been a free event that takes place at Portobello's long, sandy beach. Participants meet at the foot of Bath Street ...

Wet Leg will be getting revellers off their chaise longues and partying under Edinburgh castle into 2026 this Hogmanay. The drole indie rockers from the Isle of Wight will be joined by Edinburgh local ...

Stornoway-based folk rockers Peat and Diesel will be bringing their home-spun, Western Isles rock to Edinburgh’s Hogmanay for the first time on the 30th. Described as a Scottish Pogues, the threesome ...

Given the maelstrom of disinformation and growing tension on the world stage, this year’s 2025 International Festival theme of The Truth We Seek is a timely one. EIF Director Nicola Benedetti calls it ...

Thomas Søndergård (conductor), Andreas Landin (baritone), RSNO Orchestra, RSNO Changed Voices, Bearsden Academy Changed Voices, Frikki Walker (Director, RSNO Changed Voices). It was Celia Llácer, the ...

With a trumpeter at either edge of the grand circle and a couple at either edge at the back of the orchestra, Panufnik's Third Symphony got us off to a modern-day revision of some of Poland's ancient ...

Ed McVey (Tom Ripley), Bruce Herbelin-Earle (Dickie Greenleaf), Maisie Smith (Marge Sherwood), Christopher Bianchi (Herbert Greenleaf / Roverini), Cary Crankson (Freddie Miles / Alvin McCarron / ...

Edinburgh Diwali will mark its tenth anniversary on Sunday 2nd November with a characteristically colourful parade, free music and dance performances in Princes Street Garden, and a climactic, ...

The nation is still buzzing from Tuesday's epic 4-2 victory over Denmark in Glasgow, to secure a place in the FIFA World Cup 2026, this Summer. But what was it like for the players? The Scotland ...