Everyone’s Welcome To Edinburgh celebrates the tunes and songs that hail from and celebrate our famed capital city (Traverse, Monday 6), and if you want to make your own tune sing and swing, fiddler Anna-Wendy Stevenson will teach share tips and techniques (Sunday 12). If you’re Edinburgh Tradfest en famille, Family Beltane allows parents to share in the magic of the Beltane story with their little ones through storytelling, face painting, arts and crafts (Scottish Storytelling Centre, Sunday 5). All are welcome to listen or bring a tune for a turn at the Café Ceilidh (Tuesday 7). 

Also at the centre on Sunday 5, storyteller-musician Marion Kenny and singer-songwriter Mairi Campbell (pictured above) weave together words, music and song alongside Kennedy-Fraser's enchanting films. Kennedy-Fraser began collecting Hebridean songs in 1905, fired by a desire to preserve and celebrate the musical riches of island people, providing a snapshot of the people she devoted her life to studying.

Multi award-winning Scottish supergroup Mànran have been at the heart of the Scottish traditional music scene for over a decade, and they return to the Queen’s Hall on Saturday 4. Having played in over 30 countries, in Australia they were awarded International Artist Of The Year at the Australian Celtic Music Awards. Cèilidh Mòr Bhothan Dhùn Èideann will celebrate the wealth of community talent that has kept Gaelic life in Edinburgh vibrant. With the venue to be announced on social media, keep Friday 31 free.

In Glasgow, poet Babs NicGriogair and singer Màiri NicIlleMhaoil feature at the live sharing of GUIR!, Glasgow Life’s programme for Gaelic artists from multi-artform backgrounds who are interested in new approaches. Following a six-week period of incubation and collaboration, live audiences will participate in a Q&A session at Tramway (Thursday 30). Gaelic-speaking performance poets are encouraged to take part in the Glasgow Review Of Books Slam at the Panopticon (Sunday 19). Register interest with editor Chris Boyland. 

Better known for his Latin poetry and teaching Greek to the young James VI, George Buchanan was a native Scots and Gaelic speaker. In Stirling, Professor Ali Cathcart examines Buchanan’s writings about the Gaelic Scotland in his 1582 Rerum Scoticarum Historia, and the significance of these aspects of his writings (Legends Coffee House, Wednesday 22). And contemporary Gaelic poetry features at Forth Fridays with Stirling Makar Laura T Fyfe (The Book Nook, Friday 24).