Posts for February, 2024

To celebrate International Women’s Day 2024, we’re screening the latest Women’s Adventure Film tour on Friday 8th March. Join us to watch some fantastic films about the outdoor adventures of some inspirational women from around the world.

Make an evening of it and enjoy some dinner and a drink in the Lochain Bar beforehand, open from 17.00. The screening will start at 20.00 and will have a short interval halfway through.

Find out more about the films we’ll be showing here: Trailer — Women’s Adventure Film Tour (womensadventurefilmtour.com)

We are getting together at Glenlivet Estate Office in Tomintoul to celebrate LGBT History Month with a special Rainbow Afternoon Tea, an LGBTQ+ Heritage Talk and a Pride Ideas Session to ask everyone what they might like to see as part of a Pride in the Cairngorms National Park.

Led by cultural interpreter Stef Lauer, the Heritage Talk will cover the lives of three very different LGBTQ+ people who all had links to the Park. This will start at 2.30pm and run until 3.15pm, including a Q&A. Then it’s over to Kath from Somewhere: For Us magazine from 3.30pm to guide us through a Pride Ideas session, collecting up everyone’s ideas and thoughts as part of a Park-wide consultation into the possibility of a new Pride next year.

Free tea, cake, chat and rainbow fun. See you there!

Come and enjoy our farmers market in the middle of Grantown On Spey. Lots of producers sharing their wonderful produce.

Come and join us for Harleys, local produce and folk having the craic!

Local produce, festive cheer and a super atmosphere – get your Christmas shopping off to a great start!

Seasonal market held in the beautiful Gynack Gardens – right in the heart of Kingussie.

Come and join us to celebrate our local producers, the community and the Cairngorms.

Dulnain Bridge Village Hall will be hosting a race night on 24 February to help maintain and support running costs of the fabulous village hall. It’s sure to be a fun filled night, further details to follow soon!

A chance to dance, dress up and have some fun! There will be cocktails, lots of latin American colour and a carnival atmosphere – come and join us!

Come and join us for a folk sessions event second Wednesday from 7.30.

Open to everyone…if you can keep up! Pizza truck every week from 5pm.

“Bob Harris is a straight-up legend” Chris Martin / Coldplay

BBC’s Bob Harris and author/music journalist Colin Hall set out upon an intimate speaking tour based around their mutual love and appreciation of The Beatles, including rare archive from Bob Harris’ collection of interviews with Lennon & McCartney.

By 1963 the pair had written so many songs they simply couldn’t all be accommodated on just their own Beatles releases, so it made artistic and economic good sense to be offered to other artists for recording and the Merseybeat boom of 1963 & 1964 gave them a tailor-made outlet in artists such as Cilla Black, Billy J. Kramer and Tommy Quickly.

This is the story behind those songs, the hits, the misses and the demos that the group never released: ‘The Songs The Beatles Gave Away’