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summer festivals

Welcome to the festival season 2011. Scotland has more than its fair share of great summer gatherings, and we’ve listed the best of them here in our festival profiles, which are handily divided into music, community and books events. Some non-Scottish shindigs that are wor th journeying to are covered in our festivals timeline. Plus, you can find out why Friendly Fires are scaling back their onstage antics on page 17, how to run your own festival on page 20, and what Jamie Woon, Paloma Faith and others are packing in their festival rucksacks on page 59.

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