What's on in Dumfries and Galloway

Jay Rayner faces some serious questions and in Nights Out in the Kitchen, the show marking publication of his fabulous new cookbook, he’s finally going to answer them.

You are the jury. Hear the case from the prosecution and defence. Deliver your verdict: Guilty or Not Guilty.

The extraordinary lessons learned from animals and Noel's unexpected gift for music-with his favourite rock songs live.

ONÓIR LIVE IN CONCERT

Opera Bohemia, Scotland’s professional touring company, returns to Absolute Classics in Dumfries with Johann Strauss II’s sparkling comic operetta, Die Fledermaus. Full of wit, glamour and some of Strauss’s most irresistible music, it promises an evening of high spirits and elegant chaos.

Pottery that speaks to the soul

The Red Hot Chilli Pipers are back in Dumfries.

Since Skipinnish hit the Scottish music scene in 1999, their rise has been an epic tale of a tiny acorn becoming a mighty oak! From pub gigs and ceilidhs in the beginning, their mix of anthemic songs and powering melody has seen them fill the biggest and best venues in the country.

2026 will see The Proclaimers return with a new album recorded in the spring and back out live from early summer.

“What makes my Thinker think is that he thinks not only with his brain, with his knitted brow, his distended nostrils and compressed lips, but with every muscle of his arms, back, and legs, with his clenched fist and gripping toes.”