Wildhood Festival
Scotland's multi-award winning children's festival in the castle grounds of Tullibole Castle: 90 all-inclusive activities from circus to nature play, music, storytelling and a peacock-dotted campsite described as the happiest place in Scotland.
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"Wades Park at Aberfeldy hosts its games beside the same River Tay that Robert Burns immortalised in verse, where the Birks of Aberfeldy rise behind the field and the games serve as the climax of the town's summer show weekend in the heart of highland Perthshire."
Aberfeldy Highland Games
"Market Park in the town that was once the largest cattle market in Scotland and the southern end of the drove roads from the Highlands hosts its gathering each August, where the Knock hill rises above the ground and the games feel rooted in a landscape that shaped the character of the entire Highland cattle trade."
Crieff Highland Gathering
"Scotland's premier sheepdog competition over four days at Letham Farm in the Ochil Hills, where the nation's finest handlers qualify for the International and the once-every-three-years World Trial."
Scottish National Sheepdog Trials
"A secluded Perthshire glen games in the hills above Blairgowrie, where the heavy events take place on a field ringed by heather moorland and the highland dancing stage backs onto birch woodland."
Strathardle Highland Games
"Amid Shakespeare's Birnam Wood you can watch the gloriously daft World Haggis Eating Competition alongside the caber and the Mad Kiltie Dash."
Birnam Highland Games
✦ Weird and Wonderful"Games in the heart of Perthshire soft fruit country the weekend after Braemar, when the season's competitors make one of their final gatherings of the year on Bogles Field."
Blairgowrie Highland Games
"Over 180 artists open front rooms, garages, sheds and gardens in this East Neuk fishing village for eight August days, turning Pittenweem's harbourside streets into the most personal and intimate art festival in Scotland."
Pittenweem Arts Festival
"Held alongside the Cowal Highland Gathering, the Cowal Fringe fills Dunoon's streets and gardens with additional performances, street arts and local entertainment celebrating the broader artistic life of this Firth of Clyde town."
Cowal Fringe Festival
"Scotland's National Book Town hosts its 25th festival across ten days and 200 events in this Galloway village of fifteen bookshops, where authors, musicians and artists fill the town hall, bookshops and gardens with literature, music and theatre."
Wigtown Book Festival
"The fishing villages of the East Neuk of Fife host one of Scotland's finest chamber music festivals each July, with world-class ensembles playing in village halls, old granaries and stone-vaulted churches a few yards from the North Sea, where lobster creels are stacked outside and the smell of the harbour drifts through the open doors."
East Neuk Festival
"A purpose-built opera house in a Cotswolds village presents Wagner, Handel, Verdi and Humperdinck across a full summer season, one of the UK's most ambitious small opera festivals in a setting of extraordinary rural beauty."
Longborough Festival Opera
"A cliff-top open-air theatre carved from Cornish granite above Porthcurno Bay, where productions from Shakespeare to musicals run each summer with the Atlantic as backdrop and Rowena Cade's extraordinary creation as the stage."
Minack Theatre Season