Posts for May, 2023

Artists, crafters and musicians welcome to take part in this inaugural fayre at the stunning Castle Roy in Nethy Bridge. It should be a fun family day out with plenty of quality art for sale. Food and drink.

There will be someone at Castle Roy for two days during the Highland Archaeological Festival to show you around.

This is a celebration of Mrs Grant of Laggan and we will be joined by one of her descendents and her husband, who are visiting from America.

We’re planning a lively evening of music and song with a wealth of weel-kent local talent – including Roger Sharp, Elizabeth Thomson, Margaret Bennet, Dick Webster, The Feis Spe Juniors and the Badenoch Waulking Group. 

Throughout the evening, Mary Stewart will read some excerpts from Mrs Grant’s ‘Letters from the Mountains’ … and there will be a little bit of dancing.

A lively ceilidh band from Inverness and Speyside. Weaving together traditional ceilidh music with funk, ska beats and anything in between.

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Landseer – A Highland Romance

Sir Edwin Landseer was one of the greatest artists of the Victorian age.

He was inspired by the drama and mystery of the Highlands to paint a romantic vision of the landscape and its people in an exotic northern wilderness. Grantown Museum brings together rarely seen works by Landseer to explore how Highland culture has been shaped by his enduring imagery.

13th May – 30th Sept
Weekdays 10 -5
Weekends 11-3
£5

‘Arrival at a ball in Glenfeshie, The Duchess of Bedford and Party’ , credit: From the Woburn Abbey Collection

Sale of surplus art materials and equipment

Sale of artwork from the collection of the late Gwyneth Wright of Kingussie who died a few months ago plus accumulation of paintings remaining from the work of Dave Fallows and Marielle Barclay.

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.

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.

The renowned Glasgow based Westerton Male Voice Choir has been entertaining audiences for over 60 years and their performance in Boat of Garten is part of their Highland Tour. The choir’s conductor Bryan Marshall, one of 2021 BBC ‘Scotland’s People’ says that to take the choir out to an audience beyond West Central Scotland has long been a personal ambition and represents an important milestone for the choir. You will hear the unique and powerful sound of male voices in harmony with songs like Highland Cathedral and many more.