Travel Reference
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Live Music & Festivals
Scotland's festival calendar has seen an explosion of events in the last decade, with music
festivals especially springing up in the most unlikely corners. The ones that have stood the
test of time are full of character with superb settings and a smaller, more convivial scale
than monster gigs like Glastonbury and Reading.
RockNess
Regularly praised as the most beautiful festival in the world, held in June with
scenic Loch Ness as a backdrop (
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Arran Folk Festival
June sees the fiddles pulled out all over this scenic island (
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T in the Park
The country's biggest rock festival kicks off in mid-July near the town of
Kinross (
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King Tut's Wah Wah Hut
Live music nightly at this legendary Glasgow venue. Perhaps
the best thing about it is that it's one of many great places in the city (
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Orkney Folk Festival
Stromness vibrates to the wail of the fiddle and the stamping of
feet in this good-natured, late-partying island festival (
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Rural Museums
Every bit as interesting and worthy of study as the 'big picture' history involving Mary
Queen of Scots and Bonnie Prince Charlie - especially if you're investigating your Scot-
tish ancestry - the history of rural communities is preserved in a wide range of fascinating
museums, often in original farm buildings and historic houses.
Arnol Blackhouse
Preserved in peat smoke since its last inhabitant left in the 1960s, a
genuine slice of 'living history' (
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Highland Folk Museum
Fascinating outdoor museum populated with real historic build-
ings reassembled here on site (
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Scottish Crannog Centre
Head back to the Bronze Age in this excellent archaeological
reconstruction of a fortified loch house (
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