If you have anymore which would be if interest to anyone who will hopefully visit the forum please feel free to post them in this thread but here is some of the more familiar festivals to keep you busy throughout the year.
http://www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk/
http://www.thewickermanfestival.co.uk/
http://www.knockengorroch.org.uk
http://www.shetlandfolkfestival.com
http://www.orkneyfolkfestival.com/
http://www.hebceltfest.com
http://www.ullapoolguitarfestival.com/
http://www.lomondfolkfestival.com/
http://www.dramsinthefield.com/
http://www.mokfest.com/
http://www.skyemusicfestival.co.uk/
http://www.festnfurious.co.uk/
http://www.outsiderfestival.co.uk/
Festivals
This section is all about Celtic music festivals in Scotland. If you have any more you would like to share please get in touch. I will link these to the relative websites in time. but click this link to go to a detailed website of every event listed below.
http://www.footstompin.com/articles/festivals
January
Celtic Connections Festival 2007: 17th January - 4th February 2007
Glasgow Fringe Festival: 17th January - 3rd February 2007
Inverclyde Music Festival: 22nd - 3rd February 2007
February
Inverness Music Festival: 19th February - 8th March 2007
The Highland Annual: Edinburgh: 24th February 2007
The Dreich End Music Festival: 22nd - 26th February 2007
Inverclyde Music Festival: 22nd - 3rd February 2007
ButeLive Music Tuition Weekend:
Edinburgh International Festival of Middle Eastern Spirituality and Peace: February 7- March 11, 2007
The Singers Gathering 2007: 24th - 25th February 2007.
Cello and Scottish Harp Festival - Milngavie: 24th - 25th February 2007
Fiddle Workshops at Aberdeen University: 4th Feb 2007
March
Edinburgh International Harp Festival: 30th March - 4th April 2007
Edinburgh’s Ceilidh Culture: 24 March-15 April 2007
Inverness Music Festival: 19th February - 8th March 2007
Sàbhal Mòr Ostaig Short Courses: 17th March - 17th August 2007
Milnathort Folk Festival: 9th - 11th March 2007
Niel Gow Festival: 16th - 18th March, 2007
Stirling Traditional Dance Festival:
Skye World Music Festival:
Musselburgh Accordion & Fiddle Festival: 3rd March 2007
The Blend: 15th - 18th March 2007
Ceòlas Workshop Weekend: NOT 2007
The Lang Spoon Festival: 22nd - 25th March 2007
Edinburgh International Festival of Middle Eastern Spirituality and Peace: February 7- March 11, 2007
Aberdeen Competition Ceilidh Day: March 17, 2007
Banffshire Music Festival Weekend: 31st March - 1st April 2007
InterVarsity Folk Dance Festival: 2nd - 4th March 2007
Spring Fling!: 17th - 18th March 2007
Oldmeldrum Art & Music festival: 23rd - 25th March 2007
April
Rootin Aboot: 9th - 14th April 2007
Edinburgh International Harp Festival: 30th March - 4th April 2007
Music in the Castle: 6th - 9th April 2007
Edinburgh’s Ceilidh Culture: 24 March-15 April 2007
Fèis Rois Oigridh (Junior Fèis Rois): 2nd - 6th April 2007
Glenfarg Folk Feast: 20 - 22 April 2007
Edinburgh's Youth Gaitherin': 2nd - 5th April 2007
Strathspey in May: 4th - 11 th May 2007
Sàbhal Mòr Ostaig Short Courses: 17th March - 17th August 2007
Orkney Ceilidh Weekend: 13th - 16th April 2007
Traditional Storytelling Weekend
Scottish Fleadh 2007: April 2007
The Mull Music Festival: 28th - 29th April 2007
Banffshire Music Festival Weekend: 31st March - 1st April 2007
May
Shetland Folk Festival: 4th - 6th May 2007
Girvan Folk Festival: 4th - 6th May 2007
Border Gaitherin: 5th - 6th May 2007
Orkney Folk Festival: 24th - 27th May 2007
Fife Traditional Singing Weekend: 11th - 13th May 2007
Fèis Rois Inbhich (Adult Fèis Rois): 5th - 7th May 2007
Buchan Heritage Festival : 18th - 20th May 2007
Knockengorroch Festival World Ceilidh: 18th - 20th May 2007
The Doune & Dunblane Fling: 25th - 27th May 2007
Moniaive Folk Festival: 12th - 13th May 2007
Strathspey in May: 4th - 11 th May 2007
Sàbhal Mòr Ostaig Short Courses: 17th March - 17th August 2007
Islay Malt & Music Festival: 26th May - 3rd June 2007
Highlands and Islands Music and Dance Festival: 3rd - 6th May 2007
Galloway Folk Festival
Burns an` a` That! : 23rd to 28th May 2007
Skye Accordion & Fiddle Festival: 24th - 26th May 2007
Isle of Skye Music Festival: 25th - 26th May 2007
Evanton Music Festival
Isle Of Rum Music Festival: 11th - 13th May 2007
Perth Festival of the Arts: 16th - 27th May 2007
Biggar Spring Gaitherin: 25th - 26th May 2007
Penicuik Folk Club Mini-Festival:
Mod Ionadail Shruighlea – Stirling Provincial Mod:
Dumfries & Galloway Arts Festival: 25th May - 2nd June 2007
Doon the Watter: 19th May 2007
June
The Highland Festival: EVENT POSTPONED
Keith Festival: 8th - 10th June 2007
Short Courses at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig: Alasdair Fraser Fiddle Week: 4th - 10th August 2007
Sàbhal Mòr Ostaig Short Courses: 17th March - 17th August 2007
Scottish Traditional Boat Festival: 30th June - 1st July 2007
Islay Malt & Music Festival: 26th May - 3rd June 2007
Dunkeld & Birnam Festival:
West End Festival: 8th - 24th June 2007
Dalriada Festival:
Loanhead Music Festival: 8th - 10th June 2007
Lanark Celtic Festival:
Arran Feis/Fest:
Buckie Festival: 28th June 2007
Caithness Music Festival:
Arran Feis Fest (Tuition Weekend):
Cumnock And District Music Festival: 23rd - 25th June 2007
Dumfries & Galloway Arts Festival: 25th May - 2nd June 2007
The Outsider: Rothiemurchus: 22nd - 24th June 2007
Partick Summer Fling: 15th - 17th June 2007
Fèill Chaluim Chille 2007: Mull and Iona 8th - 10th June
Falkland Traditional Music Festival : 22nd - 24th June 2007
Tradfest - Real Ale and Music Festival: 22nd - 24th June 2007
Nairn Book & Arts Festival - 9th to 16th June
July
Ceòlas: 1st - 6th July 2007
Hebridean Celtic Festival : 11th - 14th July 2007
Lossiemouth Folk Club Festival: 20th - 22nd July 2007
Edinbane Festival
Tinto Summer School: 2nd - 7th July 2007
Stonehaven Folk Festival: 5th - 8th July 2007
Feis an Eilein: (The Skye Festival): 13th - 27th July 2007
Lomond Folk Festival: 27th - 29th July 2007
Bute Live Music & Arts: 13th - 15th July 2007
Cullerlie Singing Weekend: 20th - 22nd July 2007
Short Courses at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig: Alasdair Fraser Fiddle Week: 4th - 10th August 2007
Common Ground On The Hill: 29th July -5th August 2007
Ugie Folk Festival: 27th - 30th July 2007
Sàbhal Mòr Ostaig Short Courses: 17th March - 17th August 2007
Scottish Traditional Boat Festival: 30th June - 1st July 2007
Taransay Fiddle Camp:
Feis Bharraigh (Feis Barra):
The Hairst: Angus's Traditional Arts Festival: July & August
Caledonian Canal Ceilidh Trail: 16th July – 10th August 2007
Newcastleton Traditional Music Festival: 6th - 8th July 2007
Splore Traditional Music School:
Rothbury Music Festival: 13th - 15th July 2007
North Ronaldsay Folk Festival:
Fèis an Earraich Ceilidh Trail:
Isle of Skye Pipe Band Festival: 29th June 2007
Fèis Rois Cèilidh Trail: July - August 2007
DrumBeat:
Dunstaffnage Music Festival: 28th - 29th July 2007
Inverness Piping Society - Piping Fèis:
Summer Schools @ Glaisnock: July1st - August 10th 2007
August
Mull of Kintyre Music Festival: 16th- 19th August 2007
Feis an Eilein: (The Skye Festival): 13th - 27th July 2007
Speyfest: 2nd - 5th August 2007
Short Courses at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig: Alasdair Fraser Fiddle Week: 4th - 10th August 2007
Common Ground On The Hill: 29th July -5th August 2007
Auchtermuchty Festival: 10th - 12th August 2007
Marymass Festival: 21st - 26th August 2007
Innerleithen Music Festival: 17th - 19th August 2007
Langholm & Eskdale Music & Arts Festival: 17th - 25th August 2007
Sàbhal Mòr Ostaig Short Courses: 17th March - 17th August 2007
Piping Live! Festival: 6th - 12th August 2007
Shetland Fiddle Frenzy:
The Hairst: Angus's Traditional Arts Festival: July & August
Caledonian Canal Ceilidh Trail: 16th July – 10th August 2007
Festival Folk @ The Oak:
Splore Traditional Music School:
Blas: Celebrating Highland Music: 31st August - 8th September 2007
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2007: 5th - 27th August 2007
Belladrum Tartan Heart Music Festival:10th - 11th August 2007
Fèis Rois Cèilidh Trail: July - August 2007
DrumBeat:
Mallaig Music Festival
Acoustic Music Centre at St Bride's: 6th - 28th August 2006
Neilston Live!
Runrig - Beat The Drum: 18th August 2007
Aberdeen International Youth Festival: 1st - 11th August 2007
Summer Schools @ Glaisnock: July1st - August 10th 2007
Common Ground Festival Weekend: 3rd August - 5th August, 2007
Guildtown Bluegrass Music Festival: 10th - 12th August 2007
NessFest: 3rd - 4th August 2007
September
Gigha Music Festival:
Linlithgow Folk Festival: 6th - 9th September 2007
Langholm & Eskdale Music & Arts Festival: 17th - 25th August 2007
Portpatrick Folk Festival:
Tarbert Music Festival:
Celtic Chaos:
Dunbar Traditional Music Festival: 28th - 30th September 2007
The Hairth: 14th - 16th September 2007
Drams in the Field: 14th - 15th September 2007
Festival Folk @ The Oak:
TMSA Kirriemuir Festival of Music and Song: 7th - 9th September 2007
Sutherland Folk Festival
Jura Music Festival:
Blas: Celebrating Highland Music: 31st August - 8th September 2007
The Galloway Mini Folk Festival:
The Doric Festival:
Loopallu Festival: 21st - 22nd September 2007
Fest ‘N’ Furious! - Dundee: 28th September - 1st October 2007
Darvel Music Festival: 26 September - 7 October 2007 (provisional)
Gairloch Piping Festival:
Brechin Arts Festival:
October
Blazin’ in Beauly: 15th - 20th October 2007
Royal National Mod: 12th - 20th October 2007
Penicuik Folk Festival: 5th - 7th October 2007
Kilmarnock Folk Weekend:
Both Sides Of The Tweed: see Selkirk Sessions
Ullapool Guitar Festival
The Doric Festival:
Scottish International Storytelling Festival: 26th October - 3rd November 2007
Fest ‘N’ Furious! - Dundee: 28th September - 1st October 2007
Darvel Music Festival: 26 September - 7 October 2007 (provisional)
Biggar Little Festival: 19th - 28th October 2007
Selkirk Sessions: 12th - 14th October 2007
Perthshire Amber-The Dougie MacLean Festival:26th October - 4th November 2007
Peerie Willie Johnson Shetland Guitar Festival:
Castlemilk Music Festival 2007
Brechin Arts Festival:
Camruth Folk Festival:
Dunfermline Folk Weekend: 26th - 28th October 2007
November
Fiddle 2007: 16th - 18th November 2007
The Carrying Stream Festival:
Denholm Folk Festival: 2nd - 4th November 2007
Strathspè Away: 9th - 11th November 2007
Partick Folk Festival: 23rd - 25th November 2007
St. Andrew's Celebrations
Scottish International Storytelling Festival: 26th October - 3rd November 2007
Burnsong Live!, Dumfries & Galloway:
The Howe Festival:
Perthshire Amber-The Dougie MacLean Festival:26th October - 4th November 2007
Roots & Rhythm workshop weekend:
December
Scots Trad Music Awards: 30th November - 2nd December 2007
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