Posts for September, 2022

Live Entertainment in the Lounge Bar with Scott Ramsay Guitarist Singer

Live Entertainment in the Lounge Bar with Anne & Calum Guitarists Singers

Live Entertainment in the Lounge Bar with Davy Holt Guitarist Singer

WE ARE PROVIDING A 3 COURSE MENU AND DISCO FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT, WHY NOT GET ALL FRIENDS OR FAMILY OR COLLEAGUES TOGETHER TO DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY.

Rounding off our summer of outdoor free parties, with extra special guests.

Like last time we’ll be lighting up the garden and the trees with fire and electronics, serving you from our outside bar (courtesy of Inshriach Gin).

Free entry. Pizza and pasta food trucks. Full lighting rig and fire pits after dark. DJs from 4pm till late.

Shaka Loves You, fresh from Glastonbury and every other top tier festival going, will bring you their unique mix of dance floor friendly disco and soul, with live percussion. Joining the SLY boys are long time OBI amigo and turntablist legend The Wook. Your host and local publican selector OC complete the bill.

Pizzas from Highland Slice and fresh pasta from Tagliotello again, which just keeps on selling out, so do come early to fill your face.

New stretch tents will be making their debut too, Inshriach Gin are providing us with a bar and Ruckus Rave / Shenanigan Inverness are on lighting and PA duties, as we continue to strive to make OBI events the best going.

After more than 15 years of world-wide touring and three album releases, Rebecca Hall and Ken Anderson–otherwise known as the folk duo Hungrytown–have earned a reputation for the quality and authenticity of their songwriting: “It’s great to hear an act eschew sentimentality in favor of honesty and to prove that you don’t have to go raiding the memory of others to find the stuff that really good songs are made of,” writes Jedd Beaudoin of Popmatters.

Hall and Anderson met in New York City, where they had already been performing regularly–Hall as a jazz singer, and Anderson as a drummer for a variety of garage bands.

They released their first CD, Hungrytown, in 2008; Any Forgotten Thing in 2011; and Further West in 2015. The couple continue to spend more than half of each year on the road, especially roads in North America, Europe and New Zealand. Hungrytown’s music has received extensive radio airplay worldwide and has appeared on several television shows, including The Daily Show and Portlandia.

Licensed bar

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

Company of Wolves presents a solo work by Anna Porubcansky.
Unbecoming is a performance about loss and rage, told by a woman and a mother.
Rage, at all we become when we don’t feel like we have a choice. Loss, of all we haven’t become.
And how we unbecome.
Using traditional song, soundscape, myth, and movement, Unbecoming is a dreamworld: a rich and sublime space where image, memory, desire and fear all reside. Watch a woman unravel, layer upon layer stripped away, to reveal a human, unmasked.
How much of what we are is what we’ve chosen to be?
“genuinely powerful … a captivating portrait of a woman caught in the dissonance of contradictory desires”
-The List
“Anna Porubcansky’s… looping and overlaying of recorded layers and real-time vocalisings echoed the complex
layers of a woman caught in a swithering vortex of choices and desires” – The Herald

Join us for a fabulous Family Fun Day, where we will end the afternoon with an amazing performance from Ian Millar & Dominic Spencer ‘Jazz in the Village’

From a sell-out Edinburgh Fringe 2021 show, this duo based in Edinburgh, Ian (saxophones) and Dominic (piano) have been performing together for a number of years playing melodic improvisations on jazz standards and original compositions.

Entry by donation.