Posts for November, 2024

Christmas Arts and Crafts Fair with large selection of stalls and a fantastic pop up cafe

Christmas Craft Fair with large selection of arts and craft all produced in the Cairngorms

Christmas Craft Fair with a large selection of original arts and crafts.
Pop up cafe with delicious food

Have you got an idea for your business that you’d like to develop? Join us for a workshop on how to develop your ideas into reality.

By the end of the day you’ll have a good understanding of the following:

Realities of growth – a perspective on growth, and the alternative ways to approach a growth objective
Sources of ideas – the inspiration for ideas, and the chance to apply this to your business
Prioritising ideas – what makes an idea good, and how to prioritise the best idea for your business
Developing your idea – finding the inspiration to build on and strengthen your idea
Finalise your idea – identify the strongest component of your idea, and how to take it forward

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Come along and enjoy some music and fun at our Hogmanay Street Party Fundraising Concert. Maggie Adamson and her Friends will be providing some classic fiddle music to get your feet tapping. There will also be a raffle.

Grantown on Spey’s torchlight procession.

Meet at 7.00pm for a 7.30pm start at The Craiglynne Hotel.

Featuring:
The Badenoch and Strathspey Pipe Band
Santa and his Reindeer
Carol Singing in the Square

Musice by Emma Wright (Clarsach)
Stories by Andrew Wilson
Refreshments (deochanna agus biadh beag)
Cameron McNeish’s Scotland

Explore Observations of an Incomer, a captivating solo exhibition by Clare-Louise Battersby, at OpenSpace Gallery, Grantown-on-Spey.

Running from December 6, 2024, to February 28, 2025, this exhibition dives into themes of cultural identity, Scottish pride, and belonging through powerful mixed media and encaustic art.

🎨 FREE ENTRY

✨ Meet the Artist Opportunities: Join Clare-Louise to hear the stories behind the works and her experiences as an “incomer” in Scotland.

https://clarelouisebattersby.com/…/observations-of-an…/

Don’t miss your chance to experience this unique exhibition!

FINDLAY NAPIER: From the Main Stage of Cambridge Folk Festival with folk rock supergroup The Magpie Arc to an intimate acoustic show in the back room of a pub Findlay Napier is widely regarded as one of the finest performers on the UK music scene. This fact was further highlighted when Napier was the first solo act ever to be nominated for Live Act of the Year at the Scot’s Trad Music awards in 2018. Tirelessly creative he has been touring and releasing music since the early naughties. First with groundbreaking trad folk band Back of the Moon, then with Nu-Folk pioneers Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers and most recently as a solo act working under the guidance of legendary songwriter Boo Hewerdine.

His breakthrough solo album VIP: Very Interesting Persons, produced by Boo Hewerdine, was number 2 in The Telegraph’s top folk albums of 2014. He followed it with 2017’s Glasgow described by The Scotsman as “a paean to his adopted home town” which led to a number of high profile gigs including a couple of seasons as opening act on Eddi Reader’s UK tour. In 2021 he released It Is What It Is a collaboration album in all but name with producer and multi instrumentalist Angus Lyon which Folk Radio UK called, ”A captivating, indispensable work; it is what it is and what it is, is magnificent.”

Tickets £15 on sale 11th Nov

FRAS have stormed their way through the West coast of Scotland and beyond with their iconic pipe heavy sound. A thundering four piece from na Garbh Chrìochan of box, flute, pipes and guitar. FRAS blend old melodies and original tunes to create a crashing wave of highland music. Tearing up dancefloors in their wake and leaving audiences captivated. Their debut album, Dìle, is a forecast of what’s to come. More than just a shower, a heavy downpour: FRAS

Tha fìor dheagh ruitheaman air dheagh phuirt agus spiorad aig astar a tha cho taitneach ’s a tha a’ toirt ort a bhith ’son èisteachd ris a-rithist agus a-rithist… Frasan fuarain ciùil o na Garbh Chrìochan! Ailean Dòmhnullach