Posts for February, 2024

Join us for a walk around Moray’s earliest surviving tower house reputed to have been built for Scotland’s vilest man- Alexander Stewart, the Wolf of Badenoch. Drumin Castle is an impressive medieval fortification standing on a commanding bluff overlooking the confluence of the River Livet and the River Avon. Once we get to the castle, you’ll learn a bit about the architecture, history, and the notorious Wolf, whose evil deeds continue to cast a long shadow in Moray’s history.

“Cathedral and Toun

Wyld wrath did engulf

Lone Lochindorb Castle

The lair of the Wolf”

This castle has recently reopened after masonry repairs. Access to the first floor is once again possible via a narrow, stone staircase. Sensible footwear is recommended.

Please park at the The Drumin Castle car park. This short circular walk will start from the Drumin Castle sign in the lower car park. Access is by foot along a pedestrian trail and will return by a set of steps. Please dress appropriately for changeable weather.

Toilets are not available on site.

Children are very welcome to attend.

Well behaved dogs are welcome.

Funded by Foundation Scotland from the Dorenell Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund.

A chance to dance, dress up and have some fun! There will be cocktails, lots of latin American colour and a carnival atmosphere – come and join us!

Heritage Ranger talk: Inveraven Church & Pictish Stones

Join Glenlivet & Inveravon Heritage Ranger Lydia for an introduction to Pictish art and symbol stones. We will be looking at four Pictish Stones discovered in the churchyard of Inveraven, which has been a site of spiritual practice and pilgrimage for centuries. This tour will provide an overview to Pictish art and culture and will show how the Picts contributed to the shaping of modern Scotland.

Access to Inveraven Church is off the A95 about half a mile north of the entrance to Ballindalloch Castle, and can be found by following the brown tourist sign directing visitors down the single track road to the Inveraven Pictish Stones.

Parking is available at the bottom of the drive before you arrive at the church or in front of the church building.

As we will be outside, please dress appropriately for changeable weather.

Children are very welcome to attend. Please note that toilet facilities are not available on site.

Well behaved dogs may attend but must be leashed.

Funded by Foundation Scotland from the Dorenell Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund.

2 days of backcountry skiing. From Glenmore Lodge’s base at the foot of the mighty Cairngorm plateau we spend the weekend exploring on skis the classic tours, descents and gullies of the Northern Coires and beyond, into one of the biggest ski wildernesses in Scotland. Enjoy some apres ski on Saturday afternoon, followed by live music in the evening.
Each day will be spent enjoying guided skiing in some of the best terrain the Cairngorms has to offer.

Highland League: Strathspey Thistle FC v Brora Rangers FC, Seafield Park, Grantown-on-Spey, kick-off 8pm. Snack bar, £50 half-time raffle, merchandise. Parking at ground, Grantown-on-Spey Golf Club by their kind permission and at Burnfield Car Park (250m). N.B. Match is “weather permitting” and subject to a 12pm pitch inspection on matchday. Please check club social media pages for latest updates.

Highland League: Strathspey Thistle FC v Wick Academy FC, Seafield Park, 8pm. Parking at ground, at Grantown-on-Spey Golf Club by their kind permission and at Burnfield Ave. car park (250m). Snack bar, half-time £50 raffle and merchandise. N.B. Match is “weather permitting” and may be subject to a pitch inspection on match day. Please check club website and social media pages for updates.

Come and join us for a folk sessions event second Wednesday from 7.30.

Open to everyone…if you can keep up! Pizza truck every week from 5pm.

We’re very pleased to be presenting this short film about the multi-generation snowsports-loving family, of Olympian Lesley McKenna, and their lives in the Cairngorm mountains.

Commissioned by Patagonia, directed by Hannah Bailley and shot by Rupert Shanks.

This will be followed in the lounge by our folk session, kicking off at 9pm.

Tickets here: https://thrawnastubbornlyscottishsnowf-0653.splashthat.com/

“Bob Harris is a straight-up legend” Chris Martin / Coldplay

BBC’s Bob Harris and author/music journalist Colin Hall set out upon an intimate speaking tour based around their mutual love and appreciation of The Beatles, including rare archive from Bob Harris’ collection of interviews with Lennon & McCartney.

By 1963 the pair had written so many songs they simply couldn’t all be accommodated on just their own Beatles releases, so it made artistic and economic good sense to be offered to other artists for recording and the Merseybeat boom of 1963 & 1964 gave them a tailor-made outlet in artists such as Cilla Black, Billy J. Kramer and Tommy Quickly.

This is the story behind those songs, the hits, the misses and the demos that the group never released: ‘The Songs The Beatles Gave Away’

Tenement Jazz band are a traditional jazz band formed in early 2018 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Brought together by their shared love of New Orleans music, and comprising musicians from various corners of Edinburgh’s vibrant jazz scene, they are on a journey of exploration back to the roots of the music that they play.