Stonehaven Folk Festival: Stonehaven Market Square, Stonehaven

A lineup combining old favourites and exciting new acts in a programme of concerts, ceilidh, workshops, sessions and the Tradition Bearers Concert, as well as some more unusual events like the World Paper 'n' Comb Championships and the Aqua Ceilidh.

Blood & Granite: The Murder History Tour: Trinity Cemetery, Erroll Street, Aberdeen

A two-hour tour of Aberdeen offering dramatic re-imaginings of history.

Meet Johnny Milne, Aberdeen's worst hangman and the poisonous landlady, Catherine Humphrey and learn about Harry Burnett's tragic love triangle in Jackson Terrace and the sad fate of Captain Beaton.