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HI-Arts Cultural News archive from June 2004
Mull Theatre's The Lonesome West completes the Leenane Trilogy

The Lonesome West is a hilarious play set in the outrageously dysfunctional, cloistered yet mythical west Irish landscape. It opens at the Masonic Hall, Tobermory, Isle of Mull, on Thursday July 1 at 8pm.
30 June 2004


Local Heroes Dionyssus join Tartan Heart Line-Up

Highland rock gods Dionyssus have added their name to the list of bands playing in the Tartan Heart Festival at Belladrum Italian Gardens, Beauly on 14th August.
29 June 2004


Major new arts venue for Perthshire

The Aberfeldy Watermill is set to be brought back to life as a unique cultural visitor centre incorporating a bookshop, art gallery, music and coffee shop.
29 June 2004


Terry Neason Click for full size image
Terry Neason
'Come-Back' Festival Appearance at ButeLive!

Terry Neason, the wacky singing diva, 5 star award winning sensation of the Edinburgh Fringe and smash hit of the Singapore Comedy Festival, is to make a one-off 'come-back' appearance at this year's ButeLive Music & Arts Festival!
29 June 2004


Mairi and Stephanie Campbell will open the Festival, singing and playing fiddle, keyboards, cello and clarsach Click for full size image
Mairi and Stephanie Campbell will open the Festival, singing and playing fiddle, keyboards, cello and clarsach
Fèis an Eilein - the 2004 Skye Festival

The 13th Skye Festival starts this year on 13 July...which will be lucky for some!
29 June 2004


Young Musicians On Cultural Exchange

A number of young Scottish musicians are to have the opportunity to perform for festival audiences through a new cultural exchange agreement between two leading Celtic music events.
28 June 2004


Italian Gardens at Belladrum Click for full size image
Italian Gardens at Belladrum
Get Ready to Rock at the first Tartan Heart Festival

The Tartan Heart Festival, 12 hours of rock, country, blues, world and Celtic music, will be held on 14 August at the Italian Gardens, Belladrum, By Beauly, Inverness-shire.
26 June 2004


Shetland Fiddle School and Festival

Shetland’s musical airwaves ring solidly to the sound of the fiddle at the best of times, but in August this year the islands are set to go fiddle crazy when Shetland Arts Trust promote their first Shetland Fiddle School and an associated fiddle festival called ‘Fiddle Frenzy 2004’.
25 June 2004


A’ Bhuain / The Harvest

The Isle of Tiree's historical society – An Iodhlann – is planning to stage a major exhibition entitiled A’ Bhuain (The Harvest) in the summer of 2006.
18 June 2004


Shetland Pupils Launch a 'Fishtastic' new website

Pupils from Scalloway Junior High School have launched their new web site www.fishtastic-uk.net through an exhibition at the former Scalloway Woollen Mill.
18 June 2004


Highland Ballet Company 'Upstage' with Premieres

Argyll based dance company Ballet West is to give the first performances of new ballets by London Based choreographer, Frank Freeman and former artistic director of Scottish Ballet, Kenn Burke.
18 June 2004


Launch Marks Opening Chapter of Inverness Book Festival

An exciting line-up of major authors feature in the opening chapter of the Inverness Book Festival which is being launched for the first time on 16 June at Eden Court.
16 June 2004


Fèis Alba Professional Development Summer School

The hills of Wester Ross will be alive with the sounds of traditional music once again this summer as Fèisean nan Gàidheal, the National Association of the Fèis movement stages Fèis Alba 2004 at Plockton from 2-5 July.
15 June 2004


Dionyssus Win Edinburgh Final for Emergenza

Inverness 'Rock Gods' get through to the Scottish final of Emergenza.
14 June 2004


Celebrating Forests - Exploring trees through creative activities

Tree tales, tree poems, the secret passports into the world of trees, tree books, tree people, tree sculpture…Celebrating Forests is a two day event at Cloddymoss, Culbin Woods(13 & 14 November 2004) that will offer participants the chance to experience a range of arts based activities that will help us see trees in new ways.
14 June 2004


New Development for Gaelic Medium Feis

Feis Tir A’ Mhurainn, the annual Gaelic Medium Feis, will be held in Daliburgh School from Monday 12th to Friday 16th July.
11 June 2004


Stones by Sarah Sumsion Click for full size image
Stones by Sarah Sumsion
Drawing with Threads and Weaving Stories Exhibition

Four textile artists, Joan Baxter, Midge Gourlay, Sheen Norquay and Sarah Sumsion, are brought together in a new exhibition at the Castle Gallery, Inverness from 12 June to 3 July.
11 June 2004


Ceramics by Helen Kemp Click for full size image
Ceramics by Helen Kemp
Successful Artist on show in Moray Exhibition

Fochaber's Just Art gallery has a new exhibition for June featuring framed works by Francis Boag, Glass by Joan Holdsworth, Ceramics by Patricia Shone, Deborah Prosser and Helen Kemp from 20 June to 18 July.
11 June 2004


L to R: Donna Macleod, Choir Secretary and Alison Matheson, Choir President Click for full size image
L to R: Donna Macleod, Choir Secretary and Alison Matheson, Choir President
Trip Down Memory Lane with Dingwall Gaelic Choir

There will be an opportunity to take a walk down ‘Memory Lane’ from Tuesday 1st – Saturday 12th June when an Exhibition will be held in the Sandy Macrae Room at Dingwall Museum to celebrate the Dingwall Gaelic Choir’s 50th Anniversary.
10 June 2004


Sails Revisit St Magnus

In June 1993 St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall, Orkney, became the focus for an installation of fourteen huge painted sails during that year’s St. Magnus Festival. Ten years on, the same exhibition returns and the Sails once again will be displayed in the Lerwick church to celebrate its 140th anniversary this June.
10 June 2004


Radiotones Click for full size image
Radiotones
Radiotones - Live at the Twa Tams

ALT.blues terrorists RADIOTONES play the The Twa Tams, Scott Street, Perth on Saturday 19 June.
09 June 2004


Touching the Awards

Club Film on Skye has had its quality programme of films recognised for a second year running by the British Federation of Film Societies.
09 June 2004


Lecht Road sculpture Click for full size imageDramatic Change for Landscape

The Cockbridge to Tomintoul road has an intriguing new attraction for the area’s many tourists. Already looking part of the hillside, there stands a towering new sculpture by Louise Gardner.
08 June 2004


A Light-Hearted Return to Ardross

Stellar Quines, who came to Ardross Hall last year with the very moving play Wit, are returning on 17th June with Memory of Water.
07 June 2004



 

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