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Welcome to Dumfries & Galloway Arts Festival


The next Dumfries & Galloway Arts Festival will be held
from Friday 21st May - Saturday 29th May, 2010

Please mark it in your diary now!

We are very sorry for the delay in showing events for this year but we were hoping to have our brand new website up and running by now.  However, as everyone knows these things are never easy! 

So to keep you informed on what is coming up, here is a taster, but please do keep checking, as we hope to have the new website up and running in the next few weeks.

A Really special event to take place in the town of Dumfries on Saturday 29th May
is:

BIG MAN WALKING

The Puppet lab and Puppet Animation Scotland
created a giant 8 metre high man to walk through the town and villages of Scotland.  Big Man Walking, a gigantic figure, is a spectacular street event.


Music:

An Evening in the Company of Derek Paravicini
Performs a full recital in Scotland for the first time.

Italy Comes to Dumfries:
Tenors - Roberto Costi, Fabino Naldini, Petro Picone. Parma Brass Quintet: Takayuki Kiryu and Marco Catelli (Trumpets) Alberto Orlandi (Horn) Roberto Ughetti (Trombone) Gianluigi Paganelli(Basso Tuba)

Theatre

Fascinating Aida

Comedy

Lucy Porter - Fool's Gold


 









 













 


2009 Festival Review


Press releases and more information can be found on the DG Arts Blog


The Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival is a wholly independent charitable company limited by guarantee, which works in partnership with local organisations and communities in the delivery of the annual Festival programme.

 


Honorary Patron:
Her Grace The Dowager Duchess
of Buccleuch and Queensberry

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Highlights for 2009

Music provided by Rod Paterson, Lionel McLelland and Gill Bowman - World Premiere - Of a' the Airts - Robert Burns, the Dumfries Years (e.1)
22 May 2009
Theatre Royal, Shakespeare Street, Dumfries DG1 2JH

Entering into the lease of Ellisland on 25th May 1788 marked Burns' move from his native Ayrshire to Dumfries and the beginning of his most prolific p ...More


Play on Words Theatre. Written and performed by Miriam Cooper - Scottish Touring Premiere of Sister Queens (e.2)
22 May 2009
Dundrennan Village Hall, Dundrennan.

sister-queens-miriam-cooper-160_3.jpg Was the Death of one the only answer? This is the Scottish touring premiere of Sister Queens, a one woman performance originally produced for the Nat ...More


- Emma Johnson Clarinet and Pascal Roge Piano (e.7)
24 May 2009
St. George's Church, 50 George Street, Dumfries DG1 1EJ

emma-johnson-pascal-roge.jpg The Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival is delighted to present Emma Johnson and Pascal Rogé, two internationally acclaimed soloists as they come toge ...More

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