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JANUARY
January
1 - Hogmanay
New year celebrations in Scotland. Hogmanay
is the traditional Scottish New Year's Eve
festival celebrated on December 31. It is
a huge affair which often includes many
celebrations and parties for which tickets
are sold.
www.edinburghshogmanay.org
January 25 - Burn's Night
The birthday of Scotland's most famous poet,
Robert Burns (1759-1796), celebrated with
great festivity by the Scots.
Celtic
Connections, Glasgow
Winter music festival
Celtic Connections is a music festival of
international standing and reputation. Glasgow's
festival is recognized not only as the premiere
celtic festival in the United Kingdom but
also as an important global event.
www.celticconnections.com
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JUNE
Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival
www.jazzmusic.co.uk
Glasgow Jazz Festival
Friday 17 June - Sunday 26 June
www.jazzfest.co.uk
St. Magnus Festival (Orkney)
www.stmagnusfestival.com
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Hebridean
Celtic Festival
13-16 July
The Hebridean Celtic Festival is a four-day
musical celebration. Based in Stornoway,
the Western Isles of Scotland, it is held
annually and is fast approaching its tenth
year.
www.hebceltfest.com
Edinbane
Festival
1-2 July
A great music festival in the village of
Edinbane. Featuring foot-stompin world class
bands like past performers The Peatbog Faeries,
Croft No 5, Jock Tamson's Bairns, Malinky,
Trudge Euphoria, Farquhar and Archie. Various
locations around the village of Edinbane.
The Marishall Centre is used for large pop/rock/folk
concerts. The Village hall for smaller ones.
There may also be a marquee.
http://edinbane-festival.com/
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AUGUST
Edinburgh
International Book Festival
13-29 August
The largest celebration of the written word
in the world where "top class writers
discuss words and ideas with fellow writers,
fellow thinkers and most importantly, you."
(Guardian)
www.edbookfest.co.uk
Edinburgh Film and Television Festival
17-28 August 2005
The Edinburgh International Film Festival
is now in its 58th year and since 1947 has
become established as the true home of innovative
and exciting cinema. The Festival has presented
some of cinema's greatest moments and played
host to the world's greatest moviemakers.
The longest continually running film festival
in the world has come a long way from its
beginnings as a documentary festival in 1947
when its spirit was established as bold and
international; in the early years it premiered
such great movies as Flaherty's Louisiana
Story, Rossellini's Germany Year Zero and
Mizoguchi's Ugetsu Monogatari.
www.edfilmfest.org.uk
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Fringe 2005: 7-29 August
For five frantic weeks the elegant seaside
city of Edinburgh resigns itself to theatrical
hijack. From all corners of the globe dramatic
and musical troupes descend on Scotland's
capital.
Edinburgh Festival: Fringe www.edfringe.com
Edingburgh International Festival
The Edinburgh International Festival is over
fifty years old and has earned its reputation
as one of the world's greatest celebrations
of the arts. It was founded in 1947 and is
now recognized as one of the most important
celebrations of the arts in the world.
Edinburgh International Festival www.eif.co.uk
The Edinburgh Military Tattoo
5th - 27th August 2005
www.edinburgh-tattoo.co.uk
From its early days, the Edinburgh Tattoo
has been an international favorite. Performers
from 30 countries have presented here, and
around 35 per cent of the 217,000 audience
each year are from overseas.
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SEPTEMBER
The Edinburgh
Mela
Edinburgh Mela, Scotland's biggest intercultural
festival
Edinburgh Mela was founded in 1995 by members
of Edinburgh's Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi
communities, and one of its key objectives
from the outset was to reflect and celebrate
Scotland's cultural diversity, while retaining
its roots in the South Asian communities.
www.edinburgh-mela.co.uk
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OCTOBER
The Royal
National Mod
Mòd 2005 will be held in The Western
Isles from 14-22 October while Mod 2006 will
take place in Dunoon from 13-21 October 2006.
The Royal National Mod www.the-mod.co.uk is
Scotland's premier Gaelic festival of the
Gaelic language, arts and culture and is held
annually in October at a different location
in Scotland. The Mod is a competition-based
festival which celebrates the Gaelic language
and culture through music, dance, drama, arts
and literature.
http://www.the-mod.co.uk/english/frames.htm
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NOVEMBER
November 30
- St Andrew's Day (Patron Saint of Scotland)
It is the church festival of the St. Andrew,
regarded as Scotland’s national Day
(although it is not an official bank holiday).
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DECEMBER
Most museums and shops close on public holidays.
If the holiday is a Tuesday or Thursday
some shops make it a long weekend taking
the Monday or Friday off as well. Most banks
display a list of long holiday weekends.
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