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the George Bain Collection which was recently 2,112 Tonnes. 45 British passengers. recognised as being of National Significance Saturday 26-July Marina Arrives by Museums Galleries Scotland. Described as 8am, Sails 6pm. the “father of modern Celtic design”, George 66,084 Tonnes. 1,200 English passengers. Bain (1881- 1968) was an artist and teacher Sunday 27-Jul y, AIDAstella Arrives who devoted his life to the painstaking study of Celtic Art and the techniques used by artists to 8am, Sails 8pm. construct these intricate pictures. Every Monday 71,304 Tonnes. 2,370 German passengers. to Friday 11.00am to 4.30pm, Saturday & Sunday Monday 28-July Delphin Arrives 2.00pm to 4.00pm. 8am, Sails 6pm. 01381 620961 www.groamhouse.org.uk 16,214 Tonnes. 430 German passengers.
Cruise Liners at Invergordon.
Wednesday 30-July Ruby Princess Arrives 7am, Sails 6pm.
NB We try to make sure all the information we Cruise ships regularly visit the Port of Inver113,561 Tonnes. 3,200 English passengers. post is accurate, but please check directly with the gordon throughout the tourist season. Cruise ships can usually be seen from the coastline at venue concerned before committing yourself. Portgordon. If they are travelling west to east then they may be seen about two hours after their stated departure time from Invergordon. The Firth forms one of the safest and most commodious anchorages in the north of Scotland and MONDAYS Invergordon was at one time a major base for Exhibition - Castle Gallery, the Royal Navy’s Home Fleet. The Firth was the 43 Castle Street Every Monday 9.30pm to midnight scene of the Invergordon Mutiny in 1931.
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There are constantly changing exhibitions featuring contemporary paintings, sculpture, original hand-made prints, crafts and designer jewellery, working closely with artists to ensure the finest possible selection of works from both established artists and emerging talent. Ceramics, Glass, Jewellery, Paintings, Prints, Sculpture, Textiles, and Wood. Open Monday to Saturday 9.00am to 5.00pm Tel: 01463 729512 www.castlegallery.co.uk
Unravelling the Celtic Knot - Exploring Pictish Design. Groam House Museum, High Street, Rosemarkie, Ross-shire, IV10 8UF
The exhibition explores the evolution of Pictish design from the ancient sculptured stones found in Rosemarkie, through the analysis and interpretation by George Bain in the last century to modern applications and artefacts in a variety of media. Many of the exhibits are taken from
Friday 04-July Nautica Arrives 9am, Sails 6pm. 30,277 Tonnes. 680 English passegers.
Sunday 06-July Ruby Princess Arrives 7am, Sails 6pm. 113,561 Tonnes. 3,200 English passengers.
Tuesday 15-July Artania Arrives 7am, , Sails 5pm. 44,656 Tonnes. 1,150 German passengers.
Friday 18-July Ruby Princess Arrives 7am, Sails 6pm. 113,561 Tonnes. 3,200 English passengers.
Friday 18-July Wind Surf Arrives 8am, Sails 5pm. 14,745 Tonnes. 310 English passengers.
Monday 21-July Marco Polo Arrives 7:30am, Sails 10pm. 22,080 Tonnes. 760 British passengers.
Traditional Scottish Session, Scottish Food. Hotannanny, 67 Church Street, Inverness Scotland IV1 1ES Featuring a variety of musicians it’s always a great night for locals and visitors alike! Tel: 01463 233 651 www.hootanannyinverness.co.uk
TUESDAYS Every Tuesday 9.30pm to midnight Traditional Scottish Session, Scottish Food. Hotannanny, 67 Church Street, Inverness Scotland IV1 1ES Featuring a variety of musicians it’s always a great night for locals and visitors alike! Tel: 01463 233 651 www.hootanannyinverness.co.uk
Wednesday Hebridean Princess 23 July Arrives 8pm, Sails 25 Jul 2pm.
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Ticket Price: £35.00 VIP Tickets. £20 Standard. The Ironworks, 22B Academy St, Inverness IV1 1LX Tel: 0871 789 4173 www.ironworksvenue.com
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In an old wooden house by the shore of Lake Ontario in Canada, Louis battles with his elderly father, Don, whose decline into dementia is gradually robbing him of the ability to speak. Louis’ professional success as a university teacher of Classics belies an emotional inarticulacy which matches his father’s inability to express himself in words. Into their lives comes Flora, the carer that Louis employs to look after Don. Flora is of Scottish heritage and a good listener, and she understands that the ‘nonsense’ which Don speaks is fragmented Gaelic, opening up an ocean of revelations and buried family history spanning the Atlantic. In My Father’s Words is a beautiful play about identity - national and personal - and language, and the utter indivisibility between the two. Seat prices: £14.00 / Reduced Rates £12.00 / U18s £8.00 / Eden Court Friends Discount Applies. Tel: 01463 234234 www.eden-court.co.uk
Every Wednesday 9.30pm to midnight Friday 4th July 2014 2.30pm Traditional Scottish Session, Scot- Clan MacLennan Inverness HighMonday 14th and Tuesday 15th tish Food. land Games Clan MacLennan are teaming up with Inver- July 2014 8pm Hotannanny, 67 Church Street, ness Highland Council to throw a traditional Scot- In My Father’s Words By Justin Inverness Scotland IV1 1ES tish Highland Games. This event is Free and open Featuring a variety of musicians it’s always a Young. to the public. Northern Meeting Park Ardross St great night for locals and visitors alike! Tel: Eden Court Theatre, Bishop’s Road 01463 233 651 www.hootanannyinverness.co.uk Inverness Inverness-Shire IV3 5NN. www.clanmaclennan-worldwide.com/gatherInverness IV3 5SA
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Every Thursday 8.30pm Traditional Scottish folk session The Waterfront Restaurant & Bar 70-71 Huntly St, Inverness Evening entertainment at the Waterfront Restaurant and Bar is provided every Thursday night with a traditional Scottish folk session performed by Kenny Jamieson (Lead singer Schiehallion). Tel: 01463233870
Saturday 12th July 2014 8pm Saltfishforty Combining the rich traditional music of Orkney with original, contemporary compositions. Eden Court Theatre, Bishop’s Road Inverness IV3 5SA
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Saltfishforty are Douglas Montgomery (fiddle/ viola) and Brian Cromarty (guitar/mandola/vocals). An energetic, dynamic and gutsy live act, they are renowned throughout the UK festival scene - where they have raised many a roof, from Shetland to Wickham - yet their standalone performances outside Orkney are rare occasions. £13.00 / Reduced Rates £11.00 / Eden Court Friends Discount Applies. Tel: 01463 234234 Web: www.eden-court.co.uk
nights, with top quality bands playing covers from 10.00pm to 1am in the morning. ‘Best live covers music in Inverness’ every Fri and Sat from 10pm, with tribute bands and contemporary Rock Music. Free Internet hotspot. Tel: 01463 233077
Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th July 10am until 5pm Art Craft and Food Fair. Eden Court Theatre, Bishop’s Road Inverness IV3 5SA
Every Friday 10pm to 1am Music Nights The Room 73 Queensgate, Inverness Music Nights, Friday and Saturday
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Every Saturday 2.30 to 4.30pm Saturday Ceilidh with Fraser & Erik. Hotannanny, 67 Church Street, Inverness Scotland IV1 1ES
Featuring a variety of musicians it’s always a great night for locals and visitors alike! Tel: 01463 233 651 www.hootanannyinverness.co.uk
Every Saturday 10pm to 1am Music Nights The Room 73 Queensgate, Inverness
Music Nights, Friday and Saturday nights, with top quality bands playing covers from 10.00pm to 1am in the morning. ‘Best live covers music in Inverness’ every Fri and Sat from 10pm, with tribute bands and contemporary Rock Music. Free Internet hotspot. Tel: 01463 233077
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Friday 18th July 8pm Preston Reid. Eden Court Theatre, Bishop’s Road Inverness IV3 5SA
One of the most influential solo guitarists of the last two decades, Preston Reed has captivated The finest Arts, Crafts and Food in the Highlands, audiences the world over with his two handed a great opportunity to meet some of Exclusively integrated percussive style and directly influHighlands Craftspeople at work making traditional enced many of today’s contemporary acoustic Arts, Crafts and Food. Glassmakers, Preservists, players such as Andy McKee and Kaki King. Reed Textilers, Cabinet makers, Artists, Silversmiths, fuses chord-based grooves, soaring melodic runs Jewellers, Bakers, Seamstresses, Photographers and polyrhythmic percussion that integrates the and more are attending, giving a superb opporbreathtaking potential of the guitar body. The tunity to buy something unique and beautiful or power and depth of his original and timeless even just wonderfully tasty! Entry to this event is compositions are as unique as the man’s execufree. Isabel Stewart -- 01381 621962 -- isabel@ tion, as blues, rock, funk and jazz meet, interlock exclusivelyhIghlands.co.uk. and attack in a sonic brew that is unlike anything Tel: 01463 234234 www.eden-court.co.uk you’ve heard from one solo guitarist before. Preston Reed doesn’t need a band. He is the band. Monday 14th July 7pm Seat prices: £13.00 / Reduced Rates £11.00 / Eden Court Friends Discount Applies. Eden Court The Tour To Settle The Score: An Friends Discount Applies. Audience With “Rowdy” Roddy Tel: 01463 234234 www.eden-court.co.uk
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In the wrestling world there’s just a handful of stars that have transcended the squared circle and cemented their legacy as icons of popular culture. Universally regarded as one of the greatest talkers in the history of professional wrestling, Roddy is all but unparalleled with a live microphone in his hand. This live, uncensored Q&A will put the WWE Hall Of Famer in his element. No complications, no refinements... Just Roddy and his fans with nothing in between. No two shows on the tour will be the same. Support will be provided by Billy Kirkwood & Chris Brooker with extracts from their sell out Edinburgh festival show “I Am The Tag Team Champions”. There will also be a limited number of VIP tickets available that include a photo opportunity and autograph. www.rowdyroddypiper.com OVER 18s
Friday 18th July (1.30pm); Sat 19th (10.30am, 1.30pm); Sun 20th (10.30am, 1.30pm) July The Gruffalo – Family Show from the London’s West End. Eden Court Theatre, Bishop’s Road Inverness IV3 5SA The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, hit musical stage adaptation of the award winning picture book. Voted the nation’s number one bedtime story by BBC Radio 2 listeners, The Gruffalo has been performed to well over a million people worldwide and has even hit the small screens in a star-studded TV animation. This is the perfect family treat and is bursting with
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songs, laughs and lots of scary fun for children aged 3+ and their grown-ups. Seat prices: £12.00 / Groups 10+ £9.50 (buy 10 tickets, get 11th free) / Eden Court Friends Discount Applies. Tel: 01463 234234 www.eden-court.co.uk
Thursday 24th July 8pm Tannahill Weavers in Highland Concert Strathpeffer Pavilion, The Square Strathpeffer IV14 9DL
Saturday 19th July 11am The Inverness Highland Games.
One of Scotland’s finest and longest-established traditional music groups, the Tannahill Weavers The Inverness Highland Games will take place on have been touring the world for over 40 years with their potent mix of Highland and Lowland Saturday 19 July 2014 as part of the Inverness Summer Festival. Founded in 1822 the Inverness music. They were among the first folk groups to include the Highland bagpipes and great piping Highland Games is one of the most spectacular is still an integral part of their performance. The traditional Gatherings staged in Scotland and is one of the highlights of any visit to the Highland Tannahills were inducted into the Scots Trad Music Awards Hall of Fame in 2011. Support by the capital. Inverness Highland Games Committee, talented and enthusiastic young musicians of the The Highland Council. Northern Meeting Park Fèis Rois Ceilidh Trail. Tel: 01997 420124 www. Ardross tannahillweavers.com
Saturday 19th July 11am to 4pm Highland and Moray Foo0d and Drink Festival. Eden Court Theatre, Bishop’s Road Inverness IV3 5SA
A feast of flavours when the Highland and Moray Food and Drink Festival returns. Taste, sample and buy from the 50 plus delicious business who will be exhibiting throughout the theatre – fill up your cupboards with fine food and drink. Watch local restaurants cook up wonderful dishes to try, and also returning is the ever-popular “Chefs Live Theatre” with chefs demonstrating their talents live on stage for you. Seat prices: £5.00 / U16s Go Free. Eden Court Friends Discount Applies. Tel: 01463 234234 www.eden-court.co.uk
Thursday 24th July 1pm Lunchtime Concert. Inverness Town House, 20 Nessbank Inverness IV2 4SF
Piano recital by Edward Cohen playing Schubert : Piano Sonata in B flat major, D960 Alkan : Quasi Faust. A brilliant pianist performing two spectacular works on the Town House Bosendorfer. Tel: 01463 710363
Friday 25th July 8pm Elaine C Smith – Still Standing… Just! Eden Court Theatre, Bishop’s Road Inverness IV3 5SA Elaine c Smith’s hugely successful one woman show is a hilarious mix of intelligent stand up, storytelling and music from one of Scotland’s finest entertainers. this is Smith at her very best - totally cheeky, outspoken and yes, very funny!! She has all the swagger and confidence gained from a career spanning 30 years in theatre, television and film from starring roles in Naked Video, City Lights, Rab C Nesbitt and her own tV series Elaine to the recently award winning uk tours of Calendar Girls and the Susan Boyle musical I Dreamed a Dream. Seat prices: £21.00 / Groups 10+ Get 10 Tickets for the Price of 9 / Eden Court Friends Discount Applies. Eden Court Friends Discount Applies. Tel: 01463 234234 www.eden-court.co.uk
Friday 25th July 8pm Reel Ceilidh Inverness The Raigmore Motel, Old Perth Road Inverness IV2
Reel Ceilidhs is back with another popular evening of live music and ceilidh dancing, just for the fun of it and all are welcome! The dances will be broken down and called, so dinnae worry if you don’t know the moves. If you buy your tickets in advance they are only £5, making it one of the
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best nights out you can have for well under a tenner! Advance tickets are only £5 (online only from www.reelceilidhs.moonfruit.com) Standard tickets £6.50. www.reelceilidhs.moonfruit.com
Saturday 26th July 8pm Nike King Quintet – The Songs of Duke Ellington Eden Court Theatre, Bishop’s Road Inverness IV3 5SA A previous winner of the Perrier Jazz Vocal Award and The Spirit Of Scotland Music Medal, King is also an established writer. To date she’s released five albums and performed in many of the world’s leading jazz venues from The Blue Note in New York to Ronnie Scott’s and The Jazz Café, London. This exciting new show, featuring Niki and her incredible quintet, pays tribute to the timeless songs and musical genius of one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers of the 20th century, Duke Ellington. Sit back, relax and enjoy timeless classics such as, I’ve Got It Bad, Do Nothin’ Til You Hear From Me, Solitude, Sophisticated Lady, It Don’t Mean a Thing and many more. Seat prices: £14.00 / Reduced Rates £12.00 / Eden Court Friends Discount Applies. Tel: 01463 234234 www.eden-court.co.uk
Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th July 8pm The Lady Boys of Bangkok – Red Hot Kisses. Eden Court Theatre, Bishop’s Road Inverness IV3 5SA
The Lady Boys of Bangkok are back in town with another sizzling and seductive production. Setting the stage on fire, this blazing hot production includes 16 of thailand’s most beautiful and intriguing lady boys, performing a show like no other! This new show sizzles with new songs and side splitting comedy in truly glamorous style, with even more flamboyant costumes, immaculate make up and show stopping choreography. The Lady boys are ready to party – are you?? Suitable for 12+ Seat prices: £24.00 / £23.00 / £21.50 / Reduced Rates £1.50 off all seats / Eden Court Friends Discount Applies. Tel: 01463 234234 www.eden-court.co.uk
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