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To make people say 'wow' '“ that's one of festival director Alasdair Nicolson's key aims, he explained in his St Magnus International Festival launch speech. He meant audiences and performers alike '“ ...

And it was given a welcome re-run (on the summer solstice, no less) as part of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s second concert at the St Magnus International Festival in Orkney, what must surely be ...

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A facial reconstruction has been made of Orkney's St Magnus to help mark the 900th anniversary of his death. Forensic artist Hew Morrison's research included studies of photographs taken in the 1920s ...

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A 12th Century cathedral in Orkney is to undergo a laser scan as part of efforts to preserve the building. The project, which will record every last detail of Orkney's St Magnus Cathedral, is to begin ...

Still, you don’t travel to St Magnus for the weather – and with artistic director Alasdair Nicolson’s gratifyingly eclectic programme keeping festival-goers occupied morning, noon and and well into ...

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There is no other event, certainly in Scotland, that blurs the boundaries between community arts and the professional world as relentlessly as Orkney's St Magnus Festival. It would be more true, in ...