Theme: Folk & world

Four-day folk fest on the Island of Colonsay with some great acts appearing.

Experience the best of Scotland with a day out at the Oban traditional Highland Games.

Leading artists from the USA, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Ireland, England, Wales and throughout Scotland will join home-grown Orcadian musicians for the festival’s 40th anniversary celebrations,...

Now in its 48th year, this popular festival run by Girvan Folk Club features open sessions, concerts, workshops, a ceilidh, storytelling, talks, trails and children's events.

Traditional Celtic and Nordic music with an American fiddling twist.

Natalie Merchant, former singer of 10,000 Maniacs and now solo for 15 years, performs some of her latest material.

Hard rocking blues from a band formed in a refugee camp in Libya in the early 1980s, made up of nomadic Touaregs from the Malian Sahara desert.

Traditional Celtic and Nordic music with an American fiddling twist.

Brilliant mix of English tradition and American music from the virtuoso fingerstyle guitarist and singer, a former BBC Radio 2 Folk Musician of the Year.

Self-styled 'progressive patriot' and veteran political activist who is still one of the UK's finest writers of love songs.

Youthful zesty West Highland dance music from this esteemed band.

Upbeat Scottish/Irish music.

Scottish bluegrass and alternative country.

Youthful zesty West Highland dance music from this esteemed band.

Youthful zesty West Highland dance music from this esteemed band.

Now resident in Scotland, the respected Geordie songwriter performs with his band The Daintees.

Liverpudlian singer-songwriter and highly skilled guitarist.

Youthful zesty West Highland dance music from this esteemed band.

Traditional Celtic and Nordic music with an American fiddling twist.

Veteran folk group whose current line-up features founding member Simon Nicol with Gerry Conway, Chris Leslie, Dave Pegg and Ric Sanders.

One of the British folk scene's best-loved artists and the voice of contemporary English folk music.

Youthful zesty West Highland dance music from this esteemed band.

Enigmatic folk duo performing original songs, top-quality vocals and harmonies.