Perth and Kinross Adventure Festival helps people of ages try something new
June is festival time! Mild weather and longer nights mean it’s time to get outdoors and celebrate the things that make us happy. Scotland’s festival calendar has never been busier, and here is a whistle-stop tour of the best festivals right here in Stirling and Perthshire.
Nothing says summer better quite like music in the streets, and Stirling hosts the nation’s first ever busking festival on June 12-13. The city will be alive with buskers who have come from all over the country to perform and to compete for the National Busking Awards, presented on the Saturday night. Come, listen and enjoy! Full details at their website here www.nationalbuskingfestival.com
For those who love new adventures, Perth and Kinross is the place to be this weekend. For the fourth year running, Perth and Kinross’s Outdoor Adventure Team are offering everyone an array of adventure, cultural, and environmental activities. No equipment needed, no experience needed. Just turn up, smile and get involved! Suitable for ages 8 and up. Details here: http://www.visitscotland.com/info/events/perth-and-kinross-adventure-festival-p1192431
Celebrate National Picnic Week this June
Tibbermore in Perth is the home to this year’s Solas Festival, 19-21 June. This weekend-long festival of the arts has a busy schedule of live music and dance, talks from well-known authors and commentators, and much more besides. Bring your kids and hire a yurt! For information and tickets, see: http://www.solasfestival.co.uk/
The Tummel and Tay Festival takes place on the same weekend of 19-21 June and celebrates the whisky, food and culture of Highland Perthshire. There’s something for all ages and tastes: live music, film noir, theatre, an arts food fayre, and a highland Perthshire Produce Trail to name just a few. Puppets and children’s theatre too. Details here: www.tummelandtayfestival.co.uk
The art-lovers among us will enjoy Pitlochry’s Art Walk Festival 20-28 June. Local businesses in this lovely Perthshire town have donated space for Scottish artists to display and sell their arts and crafts. The Walk Includes the Pitlochry Festival Theatre loop and all the venues are within walking distance of town. For more details, and how to get your map, see: http://meltgallery.com/
The Crieff Mountain Biking Festival runs from 21-28 June
Fancy spending the summer’s longest night by the fire in an iron-age loch dwelling, listening to Scottish music? If this is your idea of heaven then you need tickets for the Midsummer Music Festival, Aberfeldy. And it’s Father’s Day too! Details here – booking essential: http://www.crannog.co.uk/
Celebrate the sport of mountain biking in Crieff with a week-long festival of all things muddy from 21-28 June. There’s a cycling declathon, stunts, children’s bike races, jumble sales, bushcraft activities and a giant waterslide too. For tickets and much more info: http://www.visitscotland.com/info/events/cream-o-the-croft-scotlands-mountain-biking-festival-p1167821
Happy Festival Season!
Picture credits:
- Canoeist: Andy Waddington [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
- Picnic: Copyright Clare Dignall www.clearriverpartnership.co.uk
- Mountain Bikers: By Shane T. McCoy (http://www.navy.mil/view_ahhphotos.asp?page=30) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons