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Perthshire Amber 2013

This is the 9th year of our festival and promises once again to be full of wonderful concerts featuring the finest of Scotland's musical talent as well as some international guests. Our venues are as special as ever … ranging from the prestigious Perth Concert Hall to town halls and tiny village halls, from atmospheric castles to our historic Dunkeld Cathedral and even including an iron age Crannog on Loch Tay…18 venues in all in 2013!

The festival is always always evolving (remember it began as just a weekend of concerts!) and this year we've put a lot of thought into the whole concept of 'Amber Discoveries' to complement our programme of concerts.

Enjoy the new website! All the Perthshire Amber team look forward to welcoming you to Perthshire in the autumn.

The Story So Far

"I've long dreamt of a 'festival-type' situation where I could really enjoy performing a wide body of my own work. After many years of accumulating quite a lot of songs and tunes it can be frustrating sometimes that concerts can only last a couple of hours!" (Dougie MacLean). Internationally acclaimed Singer-songwriter and Composer Dougie MacLean fulfilled his dream with the creation of The Perthshire Amber Festival, a festival that lights up the Autumn across some of Scotland's more beautiful countryside.

Amazing Amber

Dougie MacLean reveals the stellar line up for the 9th Perthshire Amber Festival

Headline acts including award winning songwriter Karine Polwart, Capercaillie’s Karen Matheson and AMWWF (Anderson, McGinty, Webster, Ward and Fisher) and an exciting new collaboration known as The MacLean Project are all among the impressive line-up announced today (8 May). They’ll perform, amongst over 300 musicians, at the ten-day music festival, which takes place at venues across Perthshire from 25 October to 3 November.

central-wee Following the success of last year's festival the base of operations will once again be in the historic and picturesque town of Dunkeld in Perthshire.

discoveries-wee Explore the wonderful history, landscapes, heritage, culture and communities of the our beautiful region ...through walks, talks, workshops, music sessions and lots more!