• Susi Briggs and Adam Blake: Kirkcudbright Book Festival Closing Party

    Kirkcudbright & District Pipe Band Hall Kirkcudbright

    Join musicians Susi Briggs and Adam Blake in our concluding event after all those book discussions. Kick off your shoes, let your hair down, and have a good time. Susi Briggs and Adam Blake regularly collaborate together musically in a number of forms: and in particular blues and folk, informed by their passion for storytelling...

  • Brian Groom: These Isles: The Fascinating Story of Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales

    Kirkcudbright & District Pipe Band Hall Kirkcudbright

    Brian Groom will give us an entertaining sweep through the entwined histories of Scotland and the other nations of Britain and Ireland – and the people who have called them home. Based on his new book, These Isles, he reveals a colourful and often-contested story of the Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Normans and others who...

  • Richard McLauchlan: How bagpipes made Scotland and the world

    Kirkcudbright & District Pipe Band Hall Kirkcudbright

    Richard McLauchlan is a writer and piper who has written the first accessible cultural history of this iconic instrument, in which he investigates how a ‘national instrument’ can shift its meaning and identity - from inspiring terror on battlefields to enriching cultures worldwide. As Piping Press said ‘this is the book I am giving to...