The Incredible String Band will play the Spa Pavilion on Thursday the 4th of November. Moving Arts are organizing the concert to celebrate the restoration of the Pavilion. ‘We want to put on something very special, that will bring people from far and wide to the Pavilion. I really don’t think there could be anything better than this- a restored Incredible String Band in a restored Pavilion’ said Lizzie McDougall of Moving Arts.

For over 30 years the Incredible String Band's magical mix of poetry and pentatonic music has been unique, there is no other band like them. All who remember the early albums - 5000 Spirits, The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter, Big Tam And The Wee Huge - will be delighted to hear that the band realise that what people want is to hear are these amazing songs, so that is what they sing.

The band's currently line up is Mike Heron, Clive Palmer, Lawson Dando, Gavin Dickie and Fluff. They have done some great gigs in Edinburgh , Glasgow, England, Spain and America so it is very exciting that they are managing to come up to the Highlands to perform in the Pavilion. Check out their website on www.incrediblestringband.com

The String Band have had a huge following mostly from their hey days of the late 60s early 70s, the band went their separate ways in the mid seventies but their music is a treasured memory of an enormously wide range of people. Fans include Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin and the Archbishop of Canterbury, who chose one of their songs as one of his Desert Island disks.

Around the millennium the three original members, Mike, Robin and Clive, eventually agreed to do a reunion concert, Robin's commitments to other musical projects has meant he was unable to tour. However the band has found the multi talented Fluff and she has been a perfect addition.

After 30 years the music has mellowed and matured like a good wine, with a merry twinkle and a very warm heart. Says Lizzie, ‘I find I hear the lyrics more now, I think that their songs are part of Scotland’s literary tradition, the imagination is very Celtic, very timeless. Yet there are a new generation of young people who are discovering their magic’.  

Tickets from Highland Council Box Office 01349 868478.