The Biggest Burns Supper

Aerial dancer Justine Squire in 'Le Haggis' at Big Burns Supper 2015

Press and documentary photography for Big Burns Supper 2015 – hosted in venues around Dumfries over nine days in January.

Above: aerial dancer Justine Squire twirls above the heads of a lively audience in “Le Haggis” – the festival’s headline cabaret show.

BBS is Scotland’s biggest Robert Burns festival and is part of Scotland’s Winter Festivals programme. And is noisier, bawdier and more artistically cutting edge than any other Burns event. And many performances are very much in the spirit of Burns – fun and frolics, drinking and a lust for life.

Above and below left: the ‘dead carrot sketch’ – part of the festival’s free carnival which paraded through Dumfries. An unusual theme for a carnival float, this was inspired by ideas contributed by a school think-tank group. “The Dead Carrot” highlights the dangers to our environment and food

The vikings are coming!: carnival capers around Dumfries in Big Burns Supper 2015

Above right: the vikings are coming!: carnival capers around Dumfries

Below: preparations for the carnival with ‘tattie-bogles’ (Scottish scarecrows)

Preparations for the carnival with 'tattie-bogles' [Scottish scarecrows] at Big Burns Supper Festival Carnival 2015

Below: Zadiel wows the crowd with his unusual belly dancing performance at Le Haggis show.

Male belly dancer Zadiel at Le Haggis show at Big Burns Supper 2015

Male belly dancer Zadiel joins The Mighty Moustache and three can-can girls

Above: Zadiel joins The Mighty Moustache and can-can girls for this publicity shot

Below left:“Janis Joplin – Full Tilt”: Angela Darcy as the Texan superstar in a musical biopic directed by Cora Bissett and written by Peter Arnott;
Below right: rising star Nina Nesbitt in her green room, just minutes before her live show

Angela Darcy as Janis Joplin in musical biopic