A major festival is returning to Dumfries and Galloway this month after it was cancelled last year due to funding issues. The Big Burns Supper is set to host 150 events at more than 30 venues in ...

More than just a supper This year ... which promises to be the wildest night of the festival. The main event, however, is Burns Night Live on 25 January, which combines singing, dancing, poetry ...

Traditionally, Burns Night (or Burns Supper) is a formal dinner event on the calendar, during which a bagpiper would 'pipe the haggis' with the evening ending with the 'toast to the lassies'.

The Burns Supper is an institution of Scottish life ... some traditional music will do nicely. For more formal events, the audience should stand to welcome arriving guests: the piper plays ...

Many Scots celebrate the event with a Burns supper, eating a meal of haggis plus neeps and tatties, and dinners are often punctuated with bagpipe music, poetry recitals, and toasts. So of course, the ...