A wide range of festivals and events to enjoy throughout the year
Dumfries and Galloway hosts a wide range of festivals and events throughout the year including those listed below:
January
The Big Burns Supper event, Dumfries
April
Dumfries and Galloway Wild Science Festival, Dumfries Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival, Dumfries
May
Knockengorroch World Ceilidh, Carsphairn Spring Fling, Dumfries
June
The Kirkcudbright Jazz Festival, Kirkcudbright The Eden Music Festival, Raehills Meadows, Moffat Muckle Toon Adventure Festival, Langholm
July
Annual Riding of the Marches Ceremonies, Kirkcudbright Langholm Common Riding, Langholm
July / August
Portpatrick Lifeboat Festival, Portpatrick
August
Bladnoch Folk & Blues Festival, Wigtown Galloway Country Fair , Drumlanrig Castle and Country Estate, Thornhill Galloway Plant Fair, Stranraer Galloway Wood Festival, Newton Stewart Kippford Craft Fair, Dalbeattie Kirkcudbright Art and Crafts Trail, Kirkcudbright Moffat Show, Moffat St. Ninian Festival, Whithorn The Border Gathering, Dumfries The Kirkcudbright Tattoo, Kirkcudbright Electric Fields Music Festival, Drumlanrig Castle, Thornhill
September
Robert Burns Festival, Dumfries Portpatrick Folk Festival, Portpatrick St. Ninian Festival, Whithorn Wigtown Book Town Festival, Wigtown
October
Gaelforce Festival, various venues Lockerbie Jazz Festival, Lockerbie Moffat Walking Festival, Moffat
