Edinburgh Festivals

Celebrating the talent of both established and up-and-coming comedians performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the awards are now in their 39th year.

AT the age of 14, guitar prodigy Chantel McGregor was told by major labels that she had a “great voice, but girls don’t play guitar like that.”

THE night skies will burst with colour on Monday 26 August as the annual Edinburgh International Festival Fireworks Concert and Display bring the curtain down on the world’s biggest celebration of the arts for another year.

TO mark the end of the Festival, The House of Angostura is throwing a massive party, merging cocktail culture and the best of Fringe comedy, theatre and live music.

AMERICA’S Got Talent star Colin Cloud has been packing them in to his last full Fringe run this year so successfully, that he has decided to give fans of his forensic mind-reading, an extra special treat - a sneak preview of his Las Vegas show.

Reviews: Our team’s pick of the Fringe shows to see this week.

A stained glass window featuring the face of Lewis Capaldi is drawing visitors to a Scottish Twitter exhibition at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

A shake-up of the Edinburgh International Festival will see the showcase have a gender-balanced line-up and stage more events outwith the city centre in future.

Given the number of column inches in this paper dealing with ­festivals recently I took the opportunity to meet up with Julia Amour, director of Festivals Edinburgh, which is the umbrella organisation that promotes their interests and speaks on their behalf. I was particularly interested in what the festivals’ legacy was, what was happening behind the scenes (pun intended) and what impact was made on the city.

It’s fine to dislike the music of Lewis Capaldi or Tom Jones, but Princes Street Gardens are for all to enjoy – music fans included, writes Geoff Ellis.

THERE’S an obvious irony when you call your Fringe show Hot Content and then faint 10 minutes into a performance due to the heat as comedian Stevie Martin discovered this week.

Louis Theroux and Jerry Springer are among the stars set to speak at the Edinburgh Television Festival.

James MacMillan was only five or six years old when he experienced his first “electrical” musical experience at St Mary’s Cathedral in Edinburgh.

The director of V&A Dundee has pledged that its exhibitions programme will be more Scottish in future as he admitted the amount of permanent gallery space celebrating the nation’s best designers is “not enormous.”