11 to 15 May · Auchterarder
The Gleneagles Foursomes
Pairs spend a spring week at Gleneagles playing alternate shots over the King's and Queen's courses.
Skye Live
6–8May
Skye Live is a weekend of loud, local music within sight of the harbour in Portree. It comes back in May 2027 with a line-up that mixes trad and electronic music, from Peatbog Faeries, Elephant Sessions and Dàimh to FARA, DLÙ and The Wran, with DJs playing late. Tide Lines and Claire Hastings open it with a concert on the Thursday night. Tickets go on sale to the festival's mailing list first, so sign up on the website if you want to go. Skye Live runs from Thursday 6 to Saturday 8 May 2027 in Portree.
When6 to 8 May
WherePortree, on Skye
Portree, on Skye
Also on in May.
27 to 30 May · Stromness
Orkney Folk Festival 2027
Stromness is a stone town of one long street and a hundred closes running down to the harbour, and for four days at the end of May every hall, church and bar on it has music in it.
Music
28 May to 6 June · Islay
Fèis Ìle 2027
Fèis Ìle began as a Gaelic festival and became the ten days when the whisky world comes to Islay.
Music