Posts for January, 2025

Join us for a showing of the 2018 American dark comedy film Game Night starring Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams.

Licenced bar available. Tickets available to purchase online (preferred). Parking either on the street outside the YMCA Building, or there are 2 small public carparks within a minutes walk.

Are you ready for the excitement of Carve Carrbridge 2025?

The renowned Scottish Open Chainsaw Carving Competition is back for it’s 22nd year.
This thrilling event attracts over 20 talented chainsaw carvers from around the globe, all competing to create extraordinary masterpieces in just 4 hours.
Each carving is judged on artistic merit, technical difficulty, and originality, ensuring a spectacular display of skill and creativity.
The competition at Carve Carrbridge is fierce, and the creations by these talented artists are truly awe-inspiring.
If you’re in the Cairngorms, you might come across some of these incredible carvings purchased in the Grand Auction.

Additionally, the Carving Trail around Carrbridge showcases many stunning pieces from past years, offering a unique and artistic journey through the village.

Don’t miss out on this buzzing event!
Mark your calendars for Carve Carrbridge 2025 and witness the magic of chainsaw carving in the heart of the Cairngorms.
Image credit James Ross

Research and presentation by Dr Eileen Stewart on the fascinating life of Peter Grant of Blairfindy.

The lands of Blairfindy lie on the west bank of the River Livet near its confluence with the Avon, in proximity to the remote Catholic seminary at Scalan which trained priests from 1717 to 1799 despite the anti-Catholic sentiment which abounded. Abbe’ Peter Grant (1708-1784) was a Scottish Roman Catholic priest who received training in Rome and served the Scottish Catholic Mission in Scotland and in Rome.

Reputedly a Jacobite, he later became an essential contact and cultural guide for various distinguished British subjects visiting Rome. Sir James Grant (“The Good Sir James”) was one such visitor and the insights provided by Abbe’ Peter Grant inspired him to collect treasures of art and sculpture from the continent for Castle Grant.

Donations by cash or card appreciated.
Refreshments available from the bar.

TOMS (The Osprey Music Society) is delighted to welcome back Alba Challah to perform in Boat of Garten. This Glasgow based sextet will showcase an Eastern European repertoire, world folk music and ritual melodies, fusing classical with Klezmer music.

Join us to celebrate Robert Burns, with bagpipes & a traditional address to the haggis.

Thursday 23rd January
7pm start
£47.50 per person including a dram.

Get your friends and family together and join us on Tuesdays in the Keiller Lounge for our weekly quiz nights. Our resident quiz master Martin will test your knowledge on a whole range of subjects. All welcome to come along, no booking is required.

The Ross Couper Band
Live at Glenbuchat Hall
26th April 7.30pm
Tickets
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/aberdeenshire/glenbuchat-hall/the-ross-couper-band/2025-04-26/19:30/t-pqezzkk

The Ross Couper Band features Ross Couper on fiddle, Michael Biggins on Piano and Paul Jennings on Drums, with Sam Mabbett sometimes joining them on accordion. Ross Couper is a known virtuoso with a distinctive Shetland style. Over the past 15 years, Ross has become a firmly established face in the Scottish folk scene performing in duo format with the formidable Tom Oakes, with folk band Bodega, and today his explosive fiddle playing lies at the heart of the mighty Peatbog Faeries – one of the best known names in Scotland’s contemporary folk scene.
The Ross Couper Band was born at Celtic Connections festival in 2023, with Ross joined by the incredible Michael Biggins on piano (BBC Radio Scotland’s Young Traditional Musician of the Year for 2021), fellow Shetlander Paul Jennings on drums and percussion, and Sam Mabbett on melodeon.
What followed was multiple approaches to perform at various festivals the length and breadth of the country and a week in the studio to record the band’s debut album , Homeroad, in December 2023.

Tenement Jazz Band
Live @ Glenbuchat Hall
Saturday 1st March 2025 7.30pm
Entrance £15 under 16s £10
To reserve tickets in advance
www.ticketsource.co.uk/glenbuchat-live-music


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.

Their aims are to capture the raw energy and excitement of the early jazz recordings, to find and revive lesser-heard songs and cultivate their own interpretations of these, all in order to captivate experienced jazzers, dancing persons, and uninitiated ears alike.

In their brief existence so far they have performed at Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow Jazz Festivals, collaborated with various musicians via their own Cellar Session residency, and performed their own hit show on the Edinburgh Fringe telling the story of the ‘Red Hot Roots of Jazz’ from turn of the century New Orleans and beyond.

Anna Wells was the first female to complete a winter Munro round last year and is also an accomplished climber and Alpinist. Adriana Brownlee is the youngest person to have scaled all fourteen 8000metre Himalayan peaks, summiting the final one last October at the age of 23. This certainly has all the ingredients for a fascinating and enthralling evening with two highly inspirational women. Don’t miss it! Braemar Village Hall. Licenced bar.

Our family ceilidh is always a sell out evening. We have live music from The Blaeberries, stovies to keep you fuelled and a licenced bar featuring local beers and gins.