About This Event
Beltane Fire Festival is a living, dynamic reinterpretation and modernisation of an ancient Iron Age Celtic ritual, and is the largest of its kind. Resurrected as a practice in 1988, it brings people together to acknowledge and revel in the birth of the summer and the fertility of the land. The festival takes place on Calton Hill and features a procession driven by drums. At the head of the procession are the May Queen and the Green Man, alongside a cavalcade of characters connected to their journey. Beltane takes place on 30 April every year.