HebCelt records most successful year in its history as early bird tickets go on sale

Nina Nesbitt plays guitar while wearing a flower pattern jumper

This year’s HebCelt Festival was the most successful in the event’s 28-year history as its investment in new technology, infrastructure and enhanced sponsorship packages paid dividends. Tickets for Saturday’s headliners Skerryvore sold-out, as did local fringe events, with Lulu only a handful of tickets away from achieving the same. More than 18,500 attended the festival, …

The Tumbling Souls: Celebrating 90s Memories with New Release

Group image of The Tumbling Souls band members gathered together in two rows

“Yeah, that song is very much about my childhood experience,” laughs former Astrid frontman Willie Campbell, flashing a mischievous grin. “Growing up too early in the 90s, on Lewis, that’s just what you did. Everybody got up to no good – it was the way it was back then.” He’s talking about ‘1995’. The nostalgia-soaked …

SET TO STUN: Sci-Fi cosplay and prizes at HebCelt as OH!CON sign-up to festival 

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Festival goers heading to HebCelt next month are now destined for an out of this world experience - after uber popular Sci-Fi and fantasy collective OH!CON blasted into the line-up. Tide Lines, Lulu and Skerryvore will soon be rubbing shoulders with the likes of Star Wars favourites Darth Vader and R2-D2, Daleks from Dr Who …

SSEN Transmission powers up HebCelt Festival with new sponsorship agreement

Tide Lines members sitting beside trees

The award-winning HebCelt Festival has announced a dynamic new partnership with SSEN Transmission, which will see the company become a key sponsor of the internationally acclaimed summer event. The funding agreement forms part of the electricity transmission network operator’s commitment to supporting local communities across the Highlands and Islands through its £20bn investment to upgrade …

SHOUT-ER HEBRIDES: Scots legend Lulu, supergroup Skerryvore and highland heroes Tide Lines will headline HebCelt with Nina Nesbitt, Eddi Reader, Trail West, Kassidy, Beluga Lagoon, NATI. and dozens more

Skerryvore band on stage with crowd behind them

Scots pop icon Lulu will headline this year’s Hebridean Celtic Festival with a spectacular summer performance celebrating her six decades in music. Best known for her ten Top 10 singles including the chart-topping Relight My Fire with Take That, Eurovision-winning Boom Bang-A-Bang, James Bond theme The Man With The Golden Gun, and her iconic debut …

An Lanntair hailed a ‘cultural beacon’ ahead of 40th anniversary show

Lumber Jills at An Lanntair

HebCelt Festival is hailing the An Lanntair arts centre in Stornoway as a ‘cultural beacon’ ahead of the charity’s 40th anniversary celebrations which include a special concert taking place at this year’s Celtic Connections.   An Lanntair and HebCelt have together delivered some memorable musical collaborations over the years. Renowned projects to have taken place have …

HebCelt Festival welcomes ‘game-changing’ Creative Scotland funding

View of HebCelt festival looking down from Gallows Hill

Organisers of the award winning HebCelt Festival have hailed a new three year funding deal announced by Creative Scotland as “game-changing”. It has been awarded £270,000 over the next-three years - the first time multi-year funding has been allocated to the festival this way. They will receive allocations of £90k each year, taking them to …