Posts for August, 2022

Highland Football League: Strathspey Thistle FC v Brechin City FC, Seafield Park, Grantown-on-Spey, kick-off 3pm. Snackbar, wheelchair spaces. When car park at ground is full, spectators please park at Burnfield Avenue coach and car park (150 m).

Highland Football League: Strathspey Thistle FC v Inverurie Loco Works FC, Seafield Park, Grantown-on-Spey PH26 3HY, kick-off 3pm. Snackbar, covered wheelchair spaces, disabled parking. When car park at ground is full, spectators please park at Burnfield Avenue coach and car park (150m.)

Grantown has a long and important military history. One element of this was the Home Guard in its various forms through the years. Dr Steve Goodall, following extensive research, will present this story at the Society’s October meeting. This is free and open to all who are interested.

Grantown was founded as a manufacturing town, particularly for making woollen and linen goods and this evening’s presentation will examine some of the industries, the sites and the stories.

Following the Society talk on the 16th September, this walk will take in some of the sites of Grantown’s industries and provide some of the stories about the industrial past of what was founded as a manufacturing town. Booking is not necessary but anyone with mobility difficulties who could not normally manage the route can contact the organisers, well in advance, and it may be possible to provide appropriate assistance in the form of an all-terrain buggy.

Meetings are held at 10:15am on the first Thursday of each month where we discuss our latest favourite reads with tea, coffee & biscuits

A special community event in Dufftown, presented by leading Scottish folk performers, Hamish Napier (Grantown on Spey folk musician and composer) and musician/storyteller David Francis (Associate Director, TRACS (Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland). This event launches a year long arts project in Dufftown in partnership with the Peoples’ Parish.

Music from local performers, storytelling from David Francis, followed by a concert from the Hamish Napier Trio (with Patsy Reid and Innes Watson) who will perform music from Hamish’s award-winning album The Woods. The night will close with a Ceilidh Dance fuelled with stovies and the all important raffle!

A great evening of entertainment led by leading Scottish folk musician HAMISH NAPIER to celebrate the recent refurbishment of the Cromdale Village Hall.

See Eventbrite for full information and ticketing arrangements.

MESSAGE FROM CROMDALE HALL COMMITTEE

We are delighted to have received grant money to restore our lovely Cromdale Hall. The Cromdale Summer Dance will be a great night of music and ceilidh dancing – we have had to wait a terribly long time for community events like this to happen in the hall and now it’s finally coming.

EVENING PROGRAMME

Doors 7pm for 7.30pm

7.30pm Local performers – to be announced soon, including Cromdale’s own Eric Pirie on fiddle
7.45pm The Woods concert with the Hamish Napier Trio
Hamish Napier – wooden flutes, whistles, piano and stories, Patsy Reid – fiddle and viola, Innes Watson – guitars and viola) with a full performance of Hamish’s award-winning album ‘The Woods’

8.45pm Interval (food by The Claymore Bar)

9.00pm Ceilidh Dance, Part 1
10.15pm Stovies, then raffle
10.30pm Ceildh Dance, Part 2
11.00pm Finish

Ashley Fripp is now an annual fixture at TOMS. He will play a programme of Mozart, Liszt and Chopin

Join artist and historian, Dr Charles Fletcher and Curator, Dan Cottam on a walk up into the past of the abandoned crofts on Dava Moor. A walk on the beautiful and terrible moor that set the scene for Maurice Walsh’s novel ‘A Key above the Door’ celebrating the novel’s 100 anniversary for Scotland’s Year of stories. The stories of the people who
lived on the moor and the landscape itself are told as we journey to find the scene of the crime where Walsh begins his tale.