Days out, Fairs

Edinburgh's festival season kicks off with the Meadows Festival, which offers the best local bands, dance groups, quirky performers and workshops amidst lots of family-friendly activities.

This fair entertains all the family with a variety of displays including falconry and terrier racing in the main ring, clay pigeon shooting and gundog and fishing competitions on the banks of the River Tay.

A local festival with a range of activities and musical concerts, exhibitions, craft fairs and a daily café and sporting competitions.

Table top sale of second-hand items for your baby or child. Enjoy a morning of thrifty shopping and reward yourself afterwards with a coffee and cake from the in-house cafe.

A recreation of an 18th Century street festival in the tradition of the fairs held in Robert Burns’ time featuring over 70 market stalls and living history re-enactments.

A monthly boutique craft and design market held on the first Saturday of every month with artists, crafters and designers offering ceramics, jewellery, glassware, photography, textiles and art.

For over 20 years this huge outdoor festival has been celebrating the traditions of Glasgow's many and varied immigrant communities with a mix of international music, dance, activities and stalls. This year includes performances from bhangra artists Sona Walia and Ali Romeo, the KAWA Brass Band and the KAWA Circus, and…

Everything you need to help organise the 'big day' including suppliers and a catwalk show.

The Nomads Tent, who stock decorative wares from around the globe, welcome in spring with a show of the latest arrivals from Iran.

A one-day celebration of homeland food and drink, craft, design and live music. You can nibble your way around the food fair, with samples of regional produce from Galloway Fudge to Arbroath Smokies. The craft fair sells a range of products from handmade cards to woodcarvings, while there's live music throughout the day.

Scotland's oldest inhabited house gets all medieval on us with a weekend of entertainment and a royal pageant commemorating the Battle of Flodden in 1513.

A new monthly boutique market featuring crafters, artists and designers from around Scotland.

This year marks ten years of this local multi-arts festival. Mixing music, art, comedy, poetry and a popular carnival, the bill includes Les Mc Ewan's Legendary Bay City Rollers, Talon: The Best of the Eagles, And Finally … Phil Collins and Koda.

Stamp collectors unite! Midpex is the largest philatelic event in the Midlands, with everything your heart desires under one roof.

A Scottish classic, raising a toast to Gaelic language and culture in all its forms. Competitions, concerts, shinty, dancing and more, courtesy of An Comunn Gàidhealach (The Highland Association).