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front Restaurant and Bar is provided every Thursday night with a traditional Scottish folk session performed by every Sun/Mon/Tues & Wed Kenny Jamieson (Lead singer SchiehalHootananny - Scottish Traditional lion). There is also entertainment one Sessions Saturday a month in July, August and 67 Church St Inverness IV1 1ES September with local Scottish Ceilidh Join us evenings for some Scottish Tra- band Schiehallion. ditional Music! Tel: 01463233870 Featuring a variety of musicians it’s always a great night for locals and visi- Every Friday & Saturday tors alike! 9.30pm to 1am Visit our website for further details: Music Nights http://www.hootananny.co.uk The Room 73 Every Day Exhibition - Castle Gallery43 Castle Street Inverness IV2 3DU 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
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Queensgate,Inverness Music Nights, Friday and Saturday nights, with top quality bands playing covers from 9.30pm 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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Sunday 2nd February 8:00PM GILDED BALLOON COMEDY CIRCUIT One Touch Theatre Eden Court Theatre Inverness Let some of the best stand ups on the UK circuit tickle your funny bone at our regular comedy night brought to us by Every Thursday the Gilded Balloon. The line up for the Traditional Scottish folk session The Waterfront Restaurant & Bar - coming months features, in no particular order: Scott Agnew , Ashley Storrie, 70-71 Huntly St, Inverness Kai Humphries, Ray Bradshaw, Michael Evening entertainment at the Water-
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Redmond, Rob Deering, JoJo Sutherland, Wayne Mazadza, and Vladimir McTavish. The Gilded Balloon have been at the cutting edge of comedy talent for over 25 years and they’re also the people who bring us the Happyness Festival each May - this year the festival runs from 22nd - 25th May and we can’t wait. The line up’s still being finalised but keep an eye on www.happy-ness.co.uk for updates. Seat prices: £12.00 Tel: 01463 234234 Wednesday 5th February 1:30PM 7:00PM ONETOUCH THEATRE The Suicide By Nikolai Erdman Eden Court Theatre Bishops Rd IV3 5SA Semyon Semyonovich, an unemployed young man, comes to the realisation that he’s worth more dead than alive. A cast of HND Acting students from Inverness College give their take on this rarely produced farcical tale. £4.00 Tel: 01463 234234 www.eden-court.co.uk/whats-on/ shows/the-suicide Friday 7th Febuary Project Wild Thing Eden Court Theatre Bishops Rd IV3 5SA Local charity Wild things! are delighted to host the award winning feature length documentary Project Wild Thing at Eden Court on the 7th of February. Tickets All Tickets pre 5pm £7.00 / Adults (over 18) £8.00 / Adult Concession £7.50 / U18s & Students £5.00 Tel: 01463 234 234 For more information about Wild things! visit www.wild-things.org.uk - or call 01309 690 450 Saturday 8th February 7.30pm SCOOTY & THE SKYHOOKS The Ironworks 122b Academy Street Inverness IV1 1LX Following their 2 sell out performances at The Ironworks in 2013, plus festival performances at Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival and BFest and their support of Runrig, Scooty and The Skyhooks will be returning to The Ironworks for 2014. Tickets £10.00 Tel Box Office 0871 789 4173 www.ironworksvenue.com
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Thursday 13th February 7:30PM TAKING CARE OF ELVIS EMPIRE THEATRE Eden Court Theatre Bishops Rd IV3 5SA The past couple of years have been a huge success for accomplished Elvis impersonator, Ben Portsmouth. Tel: 01463 234 234 Seat prices:£20.00 / Reduced Rate £19.00 / Eden Court Friends Discount Applies http://www.eden-court.co.uk/whatson/shows/taking-care-of-elvis
February 2014 don’s Leicester Square Theatre, The O2 and a Royal Command Performance. Tickets £17.50 Tel Box Office 0871 789 4173 www.ironworksvenue.com
Saturday 15th February 7.30pm CRAIG HILL - TARTAN ABOUT! ONETOUCH THEATRE Eden Court Theatre Bishops Rd IV3 5SA Kilty as charged!!! Hot on the heels of last year’s hysterically funny, sold out national tour, don’t miss the chance to see Scotland’s Thursday 13th 8:00PM very own camp crusader in his brand MICHAEL MCGOLDRICK, JOHN new show, Tartan About - live and MCCUSKER AND JOHN DOYLE unleashed! The Scotsman said that ONETOUCH THEATRE Eden Court experiencing Hill live is a revelation and Theatre Bishops Rd IV3 5SA we couldn’t agree more. Book now for Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker a wickedly delicious evening of pure, and John Doyle three members of the unadulterated fun. BBC acclaimed Transatlantic Sessions £15.00 Tel 01463 234234 will play Eden Court as part of a unique www.eden-court.co.uk European tour. Don’t miss this rare chance to see three of the world’s fin- Saturday 15th February 10pm est musicians sharing a stage together. 2manydjs Regarded as one of the greatest flute The Ironworks 122b Academy players of all time, Mike McGoldrick Street Inverness IV1 1LX has toured with Bob Dylan and Mark In times where moms give their sons Knopfler, as well as with The Afro Celts, and daughters DJ-courses for their RTE Orchestra and Kate Rusby. John birthdays and bootlegging has become McCusker’s unique fiddle playing has an Olympic sport, it is nice to see a earned him a worldwide reputation record that sets a new standard in the as one of the most gifted and versagenre of mix-albums: ‘2 Many DJ’s’ tile musicians of his generation. He from Belgian groove-gurus Soulwax. has toured with Bob Dylan and Mark Tickets £20.00 Tel Box Office 0871 789 Knopfler and worked with Paulo Nutini, 4173 Steve Earle and Rosanne Cash to name Saturday 15th February but a few. STRIKE/SLIP @ Eden Court Now living in the states, John Doyle Eden Court Theatre Bishops Rd was the recent musical director for IV3 5SA Joan Baez and toured with her for two TIME AND VENUE TO BE ANNOUNCED years. One half of the stellar duo Liz ON SAT 01 FEB Carroll and John Doyle, he is a found- Inspired by the geology and local ing member of the internationally achistory of the Great Glen Fault, Air claimed Irish group Solas. Field-choreographer Ian Spink, sound This event has the following perforartist Bill Thompson and filmmaker mances: Seat prices:£15.00 Alan Paterson,will be creating with a Tel: 01463 234234 group of Highland based professional http://www.eden-court.co.uk/whatsdancers, a series of physical, aural and on/shows/michael-mc-goldrick-andvisual ‘landscapes’ to be performed at friends-1 a secret location close to Inverness city centre on Sat 15 Feb. The location Friday 14th February 7.30pm and times for this special site-specific THE RAT PACK IS BACK! Valenperformance will be revealed on Eden tines Special Court’s website and Facebook page on The Ironworks 122b Academy Sat 01 Feb. For further info or to regisStreet Inverness IV1 1LX ter your interest please contact Louise The official UK No.1 tribute show as Marshall at lmarshall@eden-court.co.uk voted by the Agents Association of Eden Court news, like us on facebook, Great Britain, comes direct from Lon(@ edencourttheatre) follow us on twit-
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Tuesday 18th February 7:30PM ICM CONCERT SERIES: YSQUARED Main Hall at the Town House, InSunday 16th February 7.30pm verness. The Reduced Shakespeare Compa- Their Inverness programme features ny IN THE BIBLE: THE COMPLETE works by Poulenc, Beethoven, Martinu, WORK OF GOD (ABRIDGED) Boccherini and Mendelssohn. Empire Theatre Eden Court Thea- Seat prices:£13.00 / U18s, Students tre Bishops Rd IV3 5SA & Benefit Holders £4.00 / Eden Court It’s apocalypse now as the three Friends £12.00 Tel: 01463 234 234 cultural guerrillas of The Reduced http://www.eden-court.co.uk/whatsShakespeare Company set their reon/shows/icm-concert-series-y-squared ductive sights on the good book with The Bible: The Complete Word of God Wed 19th February 8pm (abridged). THE PEOPLE’S SONGS - STUART Yes, it’s an affectionate, irreverent MACONIE roller coaster ride from fig leaves to ONETOUCH THEATRE Eden Court Final Judgment as the bad boys of Theatre Inverness abridgement tackle the great theologi- Stuart Maconie co-hosts the Radcliffe cal questions: Did Adam and Eve have and Maconie Show on BBC Radio 2 navels? Did Moses really look like Charl- every Monday to Wednesday evening, ton Heston? And why isn’t the word The Freak Zone on BBC 6 Music on “phonetic” spelt the way it sounds? Sunday afternoons, and has written Whether you are Catholic or Protestant, and presented dozens of other shows Muslim or Jew, Atheist or Jedi you will on BBC Radio. He is also is one of the be tickled by the RSC’s romp through UK’s best-selling travel writers. old time religion. Seat prices: £16.00 / Reduced Rate £15.00 / Reduced Rate £13.00 / U18s £14.00 / Eden Court Friends Discount £8.0 0 / Eden Court Friends Discount Applie Tel: 01463234234 Applies Tel: 01463 234234 http://www.eden-court.co.uk http://www.eden-court.co.uk Thursday 20th February 7.30pm Sunday 16th February 7.30pm PAPER AEROPLANES Dr. Wook EMBRACE The Ironworks 122b Academy The Ironworks 122b Academy Street Inverness IV1 1LX Street Inverness IV1 1LX Names such as The Civil Wars, Laura Embrace return in 2014, releasing Marling, Suzanne Vega and Fleetwood their first album in eight years with Mac are often mentioned when describtheir self-titled new album ‘Embrace’ ing Paper Aeroplanes but most would released on 28th April through Cooking agree that the band have a sound Vinyl. completely of their own. Tickets £17.50 Tel Box Office 0871 789 Tickets £8.00 Tel Box Office 0871 789 4173 www.ironworksvenue.com 4173 www.ironworksvenue.com Monday 17th February THE CELTIC LADIES @ Eden Court EMPIRE THEATRE Eden Court Theatre Bishops Rd IV3 5SA Visiting us for one night only, as part of their European tour, their musical journey includes Legendary Celtic hits along with nostalgic favourites. £24.00 / Reduced Rate £22.00 / Eden Court Friends Discount Applies Tel: 01463 234234
Thursday 20th February 8:00PM THE MEAT LOAF STORY @ Eden Court EMPIRE THEATRE Eden Court Theatre Bishops Rd IV3 5SA Known for his performances in the hugely popular Vampires Rock, Steve Steinman has a fan base most rock stars would be proud of. Seat prices:£24.50 / Reduced Rate £22.50 / Eden Court Friends Discount
February 2014 Applies Tel: 01463 234234 http://www.eden-court.co.uk/whatson/shows/the-meat-loaf-story Thursday 20th February 7:30PM LAUREL & HARDY @ Eden Court ONETOUCH THEATRE Eden Court Theatre Bishops Rd IV3 5SA Laurel & Hardy invented the modern comedy double-act and are still as influential today as they ever were. Seat prices: £14.00 / Reduced Rate £12.00 / Eden Court Friends Discount Applies Tel: 01463 234234 http://www.eden-court.co.uk/whatson/shows/laurel-hardy Saturday 22nd February 7:30PM INVERNESS FIDDLER’S RALLY 2013 @ Eden Court EMPIRE THEATRE Eden Court Theatre Bishops Rd IV3 5SA The Fiddlers’ Rally has always been a popular event in the Eden Court calendar and last year’s near sell out is testimony to that. Seat prices: £15.00 / Reduced Rates £13.00 / Eden Court Friends Discount Applies Tel: 01463 234234 http://www.eden-court.co.uk/whatson/shows/inverness-fiddler-s-rally-2013 Saturday 22nd February 8pm ANDREW LAWRENCE - THERE IS NO ESCAPE One Touch Theatre Eden Court Inverness Join Andrew Lawrence, star of Live at the Apollo and former Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee as he returns to Inverness with his latest stand-up show that’s bursting with new material. Seat prices: £14.00 / Reduced Rates £12.00 / Eden Court Friends Applies Tel: 01463 234234 http://www.eden-court.co.uk Sunday 23rd February 3:00PM JAMES MORTON @ Eden Court EMPIRE THEATRE Eden Court Theatre Bishops Rd IV3 5SA James Morton, The Great British Bake Off runner-up is on a mission to get Scotland baking. James will be signing copies of his book Brilliant Bread immediately after the show.
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soundscape. In Gàidhlig with English surtitles. Directed by Muireann Kelly. Rough Island by Nicola McCartney On the last night of the summer holidays on a beach on a tidal island, four young friends had a party. Only three Wednesday 26th February of them came back. Thirty years later, 7:30PM the three survivors stand on that same SWAN LAKE @ Eden Court beach and search for the answer to EMPIRE THEATRE Eden Court what happened that night. In English Theatre Bishops Rd IV3 5SA with Gàidhlig surtitles. Directed by Using Tchaikovsky’s stirring score and a Alasdair McCrone. moving adaptation of the original cho- Seat prices:£12.00 / Reduced Rate reography, the dancers of Ballet West £10.00 / U18s £7.00 / Eden Court tell the story of Odette, who is destined Friends Discount Applies to spend her life as a swan unless true Tel: 01463 234234 love can release her from the spell of http://www.eden-court.co.uk/whatsthe evil Von Rothbart. on/shows/doras-duinte-rough-islandSeat prices:£16.00 / Reduced Rate touring-double-bill £14.00 / U18 £9.00 / Eden Court Friends Discount Applies Friday 28th February 6.30pm Tel: 01463 234234 2014 SAFER HIGHLANDS ROCK www.eden-court.co.uk/whats-on/ CHALLEN shows/swan-lake Empire Theatre Eden Court Inverness Thursday 27th February 7pm The spectacular international schools The Stranglers + Nine below Zero performing arts competition returns! The Ironworks 122b Academy Schools from the across the Highlands Street Inverness IV1 1LX perform together in a night of electric The Stranglers formed as the Guildford competition supporting the Rock ChalStranglers in the southern England lenge® ethos of achieving a natural village of Chiddingfold (near Guildford) high through performance rather than in 1974, plowing a heavily Doorsthrough the use of substances. Seat influenced furrow through the local prices: £12.00 Tel: 01463 234234 pub rock scene -- such as it was. Of the four founding members, only Hugh Friday 28th February 7.30pm Cornwell had any kind of recognizCALUM STEWART & HEIKKI BOURable historical pedigree, having played GAULT alongside Richard Thompson in the One Touch Theatre Eden Court schoolboy band Emil & the Detectives Inverness Tickets £23.00 Tel Box Office 0871 789 Following swiftly on from the success 4173 www.ironworksvenue.com of their debut album, Calum Stewart & Heikki Bourgault continue to impress Thursday 27th February and are now touring and performing 7:30PM tracks from their debut as well as their DORAS DÙINTE / ROUGH ISLAND new album, Hunter’s Moon. Moray :TOURING DOUBLE-BILL born Calum (Uilleann Pipes & Wooden ONETOUCH THEATRE Eden Court Flute) is a leading instrumentalist in Theatre Bishops Rd IV3 5SA contemporary traditional, and World A touring double-bill of suspense-filled music. Coming from a new generation contemporary drama in Gàidhlig and of Breton musicians, Heikki Bourgault’s English traditional yet modern, unique interDoras Dùinte by Catriona Lexy Camppretations, push the limits of the open bell tuned guitar £12.00 / Reduced Rates Alone on a stormy night in an isolated £10.00 / Eden Court Friends Discount house in the West Highlands, Lydia Applies Tel: 01463 234234 Ross awaits her new lodger, Guthrie … but she soon realises he’s not quite what she had in mind. A contemporary thriller with animation and a haunting
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