Ceilidh Culture

Ceilidh Culture is an annual festival held in Edinburgh, Scotland which incorporates folk music, song, dance and storytelling.

Hamish Henderson was instrumental in creating the first People's Festival in 1951, with funding from the British Council, The Communist Party and the Scottish TUC, this was revived in 2002 by the Scottish Socialist Party MSP Colin Fox.

This saw a performance of Ewan MacColl's play "Uranium 235" and Gaelic singing by Flora MacNeil and others.

In 1953 it was the further reduced, but both Jeannie Robertson and Jean Ritchie made memorable appearances.

Financial problems caused its collapse in 1999, but in 2003 saw the launch of a new event, called Ceilidh Culture.