Each summer, since 1996, the Culross Festival has been welcoming audiences from all over Scotland to enjoy first rate programmes of live music, performed in the open air. I am delighted that my historic family home overlooking the River Forth provides the setting for this musical feast. Living this far north, our summers are often no more than fleeting memories. But I can assure you that an evening spent listening to opera, or a blues orchestra in the tranquillity of this enchanting place will stay with you forever.