East Neuk Festival

Held across the pretty East Fife coast each summer, this festival’s venues often surprise and have included churches, caves, stately homes and an ex-nuclear bunker. This year there will be concerts in Crail, Kilrenny, Anstruther and Elie, underpinned by a belief in the transformative potential of live music. Co-founder and director Svend McEwan-Brown says: ‘Friendships and special collaborations are the building blocks for the ENF 2023 programme, and as ever, we offer concerts that you will hear nowhere else.’ This year, there’s a special residence by the award-winning Belcea Quartet, returning with a ‘dream team’ of musicians to play solo, duo, quartet and sextet arrangements, including violinist Vilde Frang, pianist Bertrand Chamayou, cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and violist Diyang Mei.