Business Focus: Stage all set for return of Nairn Book and Arts Festival
Nairn Book and Arts Festival is a well-loved annual celebration of the arts, which, for an unbroken run of 21 years, has been tapping in to the enormous creative talent we have here in Nairn and the Highlands, and bringing authors, artists and performers from across Scotland and the UK to the area.
Most of the festival’s audiences hail from the north of Scotland, but we also attract visitors from further afield in the UK, and overseas.
Many make it an annual event, booking holidays to visit friends and come to the festival.
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The programme has featured some famous names over the years, and this year’s programme is no exception, with Irvine Welsh, Sally Magnusson and Jackie Kay topping the bill, which also includes music by the legendary Findlay Napier and folk singer/songwriter Iona Lane, Early Scots music by Laudonia and literature-inspired music from The Bookshop Band.
Artists from across the north of Scotland and the islands will show their work at the festival’s main venue, Nairn Community and Arts Centre.
We launch the festival with a Town Centre Takeover on August 31, with ‘A Walk on the Wild Side’ parade – we’re asking everyone, including local business owners, to join in the fancy dress fun!
Or don your deely boppers and come along to our ‘Beasties and Butterflies Ball’ parade on our Finale Day, Sunday, September 8 - a day full of live music and nature-based creative fun in Nairn’s green spaces.
If you’re an environmental group, why not join us with a stall on the day? You can get in touch at info@nairnfestival.co.uk.
To find out more about this year’s festival plans, visit www.nairnfestival.co.uk
Tanera Astley is creative director of the Nairn Book and Arts Festival.
