Inverness Arts Gallery

Education, Culture & Sport
Feb - Mar 2007

Updated 5 Feb

Community Learning and Leisure

Education, Culture & Sport

Supported by The National Lottery through the Scottish Arts Council

Wed 7 Feb – 1pm

LUNCHTIME CONCERT

DES DEVINE (Songs from the Shows)

and SHEILA BRUCE (piano)

Inverness Town House

Admission Free. Donations to charity

Promoted by Education, Culture & Sport as part of Highland 2007

Sat 17 Feb – 8pm

KARINE POLWART, ANNIE GRACE, CORRINA HEWAT

Phipps Hall, Beauly

Tickets £10, £8 (concessions), £5 (Under 18)

From Morison’s, Beauly and www.thebooth.co.uk

Also Harmony Singing Workshop

With Karine, Annie and Corrina

In Phipps Hall

Sat 17 Feb from 2 to 4pm

Cost £7 (£6 concessions)

Bookings 01463 724314

And www.thebooth.co.uk

The hottest new trio! Beautiful love songs, dance songs, new songs and old with rich luscious harmonies, harp, pipes, guitar. Three very individual voices, great humour, exceptional instrumentalists.

VOCAL TRIUMPH!
This has to be one of the highlights of the 2006 Fringe Festival for me! I'd go as far as to say this show was indeed one of the highlights of the ENTIRE Edinburgh Festival 2006.

FIVE STARS FOR TRIO

This was a magical show. Beautiful women, beautiful sound, beautiful voices. What a gorgeous trio. As they said themselves, they have only performed as the trio three times - you must do MORE I say, MORE! AND RELEASE THE ALBUM! The world needs to hear this!

Girly Trio
This show was superlative from start to finish, as one would expect from three such talented musicians and singers. The complex interweaving arrangements of songs worked extremely well as did the instrumentals and the three singers' obvious enjoyment in what they were doing conveyed itself to their audience. From traditional to self-penned songs there wasn't s dull moment. Just a shame it was only on for one night, or I would go again!

Presented by The Highland Council in association with Beauly Arts Group

Fri 23 Feb

CANDICE SHARP (song) and FIONA MACLEOD (piano)

LUNCHTIME CONCERT 1-1.45pm

Inverness Town House

Admission Free. Donations to charity

Promoted by Education, Culture & Sport as part of Highland 2007

Fri 16 March

LUNCH-TIME CONCERT 1 – 1.45pm

THE BOSWELL TRIO

Handel, Vivaldi, Schumann, Saint-Saëns, Reinecke, Bart, Garner

Inverness Town House

Admission Free. Donations to charity

GERRY O’CONNOR & DONAL O’CONNOR

Sat 7 April 2007

8pm

Phipps Hall, Beauly

Tickets £10, £8 (concessions), £5 (Under 18)

From Morison’s, Beauly and www.thebooth.co.uk

Gerry O’Connor is one of Ireland’s most respected traditional fiddle players. His recent album Journeyman has been receiving great reviews. You can check him out on http://www.gerryoconnor.net/

“a sublime album of fiddle tunes” - The Irish Times
”the best Irish album of 2004”- irishmusicreview.com

"Sparkling" " Immaculate" and with "Dazzling Ability"

Presented by The Highland Council and Beauly Arts Group

THE SINGING SOUS'CHEFS Alive Again!

Fri 27 April – 8pm

Spectrum Centre, Inverness

directed by John Nicholson of Peepolykus Theatre Co.

‘musicality and life enriching’ Rod Clements Lindisfarne
‘hilarity in harmony, guaranteed to contain nuts’ The Plough Arts Centre

Co-promotion with Eden Court in Exile

Tickets 01463 234234 www.eden-court.co.uk

OTHER LOCAL PROMOTIONS

Sat 10 Feb – 6.45pm to late

'SCOT-ISH' NIGHT at Merkinch Community Centre

The evening will be a mixture of different sounds and tastes, as the night is open to groups who might like the opportunity to perform their traditional songs and music.

Cost: £2

Buffet included in the entry. Buffet will be a mixture of foods from around the world, hot and cold, created by our chef for the evening.

we will have performances from the Singing for Pleasure group, Happyness Drumming, Shannon Dowe, amongst others. The second part of the evening will see a ceilidh led by TMC Folk, with a session by Happyness Drumming.

There will also be face painting and a raffle.

Tickets are available in advance from the Community Centre and Merkinch Enterprise, they will also be available on the door.

A TALE GATHERING – Artsplay Highland 2007

“Story Heritage – Community, locality and people are valuable resources in the Highlands – sharing is what we do best; access and inclusion is what we are about, and what we want to be – sharing stories keeps our communities alive.”

Artsplay Highland are bringing artists into communities in the Highlands throughout 2007 in a storytelling project led by well-known community artist Bob Pegg.

The gathering of stories begins in Glenurquhart working with community groups and the primary school, encouraging people to share stories, and record them as a legacy. Visual artists will be working alongside Bob to interpret the tales leading to an open event on 21^st April at Glenurquhart Hall which will include an exhibition and workshops throughout the day in music, dance and art for children and adults.

Bob Pegg will also be bringing his own knowledge of the Highlands and each area’s unique “story heritage” to enhance a sense of belonging. It is hoped that the stories can be re-told in each location and become a part of every-day conversation within the groups and will inspire them to take the stories into other art forms.

The story-gathering will be an organic process, initially non-formal in its approach with the groups in each area, and will seek to encourage communication, knowledge, awareness of the unique landscape, history and of course people and their lives, regardless of where they have come from, or where they may be going.

After Glenurqhart, Bob will be in Dingwall for early summer, and then moving onto Thurso for the autumn. Each area will have a day of exhibiting and workshopping, and it is hoped that everything can be brought together for a final exhibition in December 2007.

Childcare workers, care staff and teachers are expected to take part in the project as part of CPD a

Fri 9 Feb – 8pm

DAN ARBORISE

Mon 12 Feb – 8pm

SWEDISH JAZZ KINGS

Fri 16 Feb – 8pm

THE UNSINKABLE CLERK

Tue 27 Feb 2007 – 8pm

X FACTOR DANCE COMPANY

A TALE GATHERING – Artsplay Highland 2007