Folk

Annual grass roots festival of traditional music and the arts taking place at venues across the city (only a few are listed above). More than 30 organisations come together to put on foot-stomping ceilidhs, late night concerts, folk clubs, storytelling and workshops by local and international performers.

An unsurprisingly good turn-out for a wet Friday in Edinburgh when James Yorkston, along with a few familiar faces from the Fence Collective played the Queens Hall.

The 3-day festival moves this year from its traditional venue in the Assembly Rooms, which are being refurbished, to three venues this year - the main events will

A spectacular night of music song and dance to get you in the mood for Hogmanay.

The Beltane Fire Society - best known for the Beltane Fire Festival on Calton Hill - bring their unique brand of neo-pagan street theatre, pulsating drums, and fire displays to the Royal Mile to mark Samhuinn from 9pm-11pm, which literally means "the end of Summer". The free spectacle is followed by the Samhuinn after party at the Bongo Club (11pm-3am).

The Edinburgh International Festival may have come first, but generally it's the Fringe that Edinburgh is best-known for. There's really nothing quite like it - "the largest show on Earth".

The stats bear that out: the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe saw 41,689 performances of 2,542 shows in 258 Fringe venues. It's a sprawling, anarchic, sleepless month of live performances. There were also 607 free shows at the 2011 Fringe.

A concert at the reference library kicks off the annual Edinburgh Hispanic Festival.

A delightful programme of music that combines folk items and music by Faure, Gluck, Mozart, Rachmaninov and Vaughan Williams

Tickets are £5 and available on the door

Building on the success of the first Lammermuir Festival last year, this autumn brings ten days of wonderful music performed in the most stunning venues acr

Yesterday saw the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow. The event was live webcast by the BBC around the world. This year's winners of the Grade 1 competition were top Northern Ireland Band, the Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band.

The event includes Australian singer-songwriter Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo, Scotland’s award winning Blazin’ Fiddles group as well as leading Scottish singer-songwriter Rab Noak

Battlefield Band's Music Tryst Festival featuring: Michael Marra, Battlefield Band, Mike Whellans, Allan MacDonald, George Duff, Tich Frier, & Chloe Matharu

The Festival of Politics 2011, which runs from 20 - 27 August, presents a diverse programme of events bringing together politics, media and the arts through performance, discussion and debate.

Don McLean has been a successful singer-songwriter for 42 years with over 30 albums to his name so doesn’t have too much to prove especially to the fans, mainly of a certain age, who had turn

The summer's major Scottish rock festival, organised by DF Concerts, is named after its chief sponsor, the brewing company Tennents.

The Meadows Festival is an annual, free community festival, that has been running since 1974, with sporting activities, local bands, stalls and family entertainment held on the West Meadows by Melv

Good times down on Leith Links as the Leith Festival Gala Day - the highlight of the festival - takes place on Leith Links.

Over 500 of Scotland’s leading bagpipers and drummers are expected to compete in the inaugural Edinburgh Pipe Band Championship 2011 in association with The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association Lothian & Borders Branch.

In the 26 years since the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain was formed, while remaining esoteric, it has conquered the musical world with its unique take on music from pop to punk to classics and classical. 

The 2011 Perthshire Amber Festival (28 October to 6 November), headed up by Scots singer-songwriter Dougie MacLean, has announced its line-up for Autumn this year. It includes rising star Emily Smith, Jimmie McGregor, Phil Cunningham, Archie Fisher and a host of familiar names from Scotland’s folk and trad scene, as well as Beoga from Ireland, Eliza Lynn from USA and Canadian Buddy MacDonald, all performing alongside Scotland’s Dougie MacLean.