2026 Summer Programme

Welcome to the Aboyne and Deeside Festival 2026 Season which this year includes new venues and new partnerships!

Our opening event celebrates the crafting of a new cello (Sunday 5th July - St Margaret’s Church in Braemar).

We are working with The Barn in Banchory on an event featuring the contemporary author : prize- winning Michael Pedersen will be reading from his novel Muckle Flugga. (Saturday 1st August).

Illyria are back - our favorite touring company with Shakespeare’s As You Like It on Aboyne Green during the week of the Games. (Thankyou to the Aboyne Highland Games Committee for their help).

The Old Blind Dogs are playing at Tornaveen Hall; FLaG Trio will be performing at Birse and Feughside Church; Sopranaria (Moira Docherty, Barbara Scott and Robert Duncan) will present songs and popular opera duets. In Transit are back playing this year at the Victory Hall in Aboyne. 

We also wanted to include events celebrating the Doric language. We have both Gordon Hay explaining Doric's Nae Deid and Sheena Blackhall with Spikkin Doric.

For youngsters : an introduction to Pickleball at the MacRobert Hall in Tarland, and Branch Weaving at the Hall on the Green in Aboyne.

So squeeze in as many events as you can this summer…. and remember - without you, there is no festival!

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