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every Sun/Mon/Tues & Wed Hootananny - Scottish Traditional Sessions 67 Church St Inverness IV1 1ES Join us evenings for some Scottish Traditional Music! Featuring a variety of musicians it’s always a great night for locals and visitors alike! Visit our website for further details: http://www.hootananny.co.uk
September with local Scottish Ceilidh band Schiehallion. Tel: 01463233870
Every Friday & Saturday 9.30pm to 1am Music Nights The Room 73 Queensgate,Inverness Music Nights, Friday and Saturday nights, with top quality bands playing covers from 9.30pm to 1am in the Every Day morning. ‘Best live covers music in InExhibition - Castle Gallery43 Castle verness’ every Fri and Sat from 10pm, Street Inverness IV2 3DU with tribute bands and contemporary There are constantly changing exhibiRock Music. Free Internet hotspot. Tel: tions featuring contemporary paintings, 01463 233077 sculpture, original hand-made prints, Tuesday 3rd December 2013 uncrafts and designer jewellery, working til: 5th Jan 2014 closely with artists to ensure the finest Sleeping Beauty Pantomime possible selection of works from both Eden Court Theatre Bishops Rd established artists and emerging talent. Inverness 1V3 5SA Ceramics, Glass, Jewellery, Paintings, Filled with fun, laughter, mishaps and Prints, Sculpture, Textiles, and Wood. magic, the Pantomime has become an Open Monday to Saturday 9.00am to essential part of Christmas celebrations 5.00pm Tel: 01463 729512 for families across the Highlands & Iswww.castlegallery.co.uk lands, and this year’s Panto-spectacular is the fairytale-favourite... SLEEPING Every Thursday BEAUTY! To book tickets Tel: 01463 Traditional Scottish folk session 234 234 or visit www.eden-court.co.uk The Waterfront Restaurant & Bar 70-71 Huntly St, Inverness Wednesday 1st January 7.30pm Evening entertainment at the WaterNew Year’s Day Ceilidh front Restaurant and Bar is provided The Glen Mhor Hotel Inverness every Thursday night with a traditional See in the New Year in style with a ceiScottish folk session performed by lidh on the 1st of January. Be it a hair Kenny Jamieson (Lead singer Schiehal- of the dog or just continuing the party lion). There is also entertainment one from the night before, New Year is one Saturday a month in July, August and of the best times to party! The ceilidhs
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What’s On Inverness organised by Reel Ceilidhs are suitable for beginners and regular ceilidh goers alike (so basically there’s no excuses!). Come on your own, with friends or as a couple, all are welcome! Tickets are just £12.50 which includes a yummy dish of stovies. Buy tickets now from www.reelceilidhs.moonfruit.com
23rd 2:00PM, 7:30PM 24th 7:30PM 25th 2:00PM, 7:30PM Tickets £15.50 £29.50 Check here for more details and times! http://www.eden-court.co.uk/ whats-on/shows/scottish-ballet-hanselgretel
Friday 24th January 8pm THE VATERSAY BOYS @ The IronSaturday 4th January works 9:00am - 3:30pm 122b Academy Street Inverness The Independent Inverness Farm- IV1 1LX ers’ Market Over the past few years The VaterEastgate Precinct Inverness say Boys have been creating a stir of The Independent Inverness Farmers’ madness and mayhem throughout the Market is held in Inverness city centre Western Isles and much further afield. on the Eastgate Precinct on the first Hailing from the Island of Vatersay, the Saturday of every month. It is a well most southerly populated isle of the stocked Market with a variety of stalls Outer Hebrides with a rising population selling quality, local produce including of under 100, The Vatersay Boys are baking, cheese, fruit, vegetables, meat, now well and truly established in the eggs as well as crafts and much more Celtic and Gaidhealtachd music scene. The Boys will play a rough, raw set Tuesday 21st January 7.30pm of ceilidh dances. The “Wall of Sound” ICM Concert Series: BACCHETTI will be transferred to a sheer cliff face MOFFAT MITCHELL TRIO by the Ironworks superb PA system Town House Inverness for this Burns Night Special with The For this full evening concert Alan and Vatersay Boys. Ticket Price: £12.00 ArtScott return with violinist Anthony ist Website: www.thevatersayboys.com Moffat of the Da Vinci Trio and leader www.ironworksvenue.com of the Orchestra of Scottish Opera to perform three delightful works; Suite Saturday 25th January for Clarinet, Violin and Piano from The Burns Night Ceilidh Soldier’s Tale by Stravinsky, the Suite The Glen Mhor Hotel Ness Bank for Violin, Clarinet and Piano, Op. 157b Inverness IV2 4SG by Milhaud and Bartok’s Contrasts Join us in celebrating Robert Burns with for Violin Clarinet and Piano, Sz 111. some haggis and ceilidh dancing, posBOOK ONLINE http://www.eden-court. sibly the greatest combination ever. co.uk/whats-on/shows/icm-concertThere will be live music, ceilidh dancseries-bacchetti-moffat-mitchell-trio Tel: ing and a wee few traditional Burns 01463 234234 Seat prices: £13.00 / Night extras...Dances will be broken U18s, Students & Benefit Holders £4.00 down and called so dinnae worry if / Eden Court Friends £12.00 you don’t know the moves! Tickets are just £14.50 (includes haggis, neeps & Wednesday 22nd January until: tatties) available from www.reelceilidhs. Saturday 25th January moonfruit.com Suitable for singles, Scottish Ballet : Hansel and Gretel couples or groups - all welcome! Tel: Eden Court Empire Theatre Bish01463 234 308 ops Rd Inverness IV3 5SA Choreography: Christopher Hampson Sunday 26th January 7.30pm Music: Engelbert Humperdinck, perNEWTON FAULKNER formed live by the Scottish Ballet 122b Academy Street Inverness Orchestra IV1 1LX This brand new Hansel & Gretel takes Newton Faulkner knows all about increative twists and turns inspired by vention. When he emerged in 2007 he the Grimm Brother’s famous fairy tale was the fleet-fingered prince of spar- and the stories and imagination of kling guitar pop. A graduate of Guildthe people of Scotland. Meet Hansel, ford Academy of Contemporary Music, Gretel and a bewitching ballerina who the then-22-year old kid from Surrey is not at all as she seems 22nd 7:30PM had a million-selling, Number One hit
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January 2014 with his debut album Hand Built By Robots. Singles Dream Catch Me and I Need Something were the festival sound of 2007 and 2008. As were his innovative covers of Massive Attack’s Teardrop and the theme from Spongebob Squarepants. This was a man who knew how to entertain, and to enthral. www.newtonfaulkner.com Ticket Price: £20.00 buy tickets online http://www. ticketmaster.co.uk/event/36004B6DB2 9F4B87?camefrom=CFC_UK_MU1586_ WEBLINK Thursday 30th January 7.30pm Banff Mountain Film Festival @ Eden Court Eden Court Empire Theatre Bishops Rd Inverness IV3 5SA Attracting sold out audiences across the globe, the world’s most prestigious mountain film festival presents a brand new selection of extraordinary short films from the world’s leading adventure film makers. Exhilarating and thought provoking and with amazing footage of adrenaline packed action sports such as climbing, mountaineering, kayaking, mountain biking and skiing. This is a must-see for mountain enthusiasts and anyone with a spirit of adventure! Plus, there will be lots of free giveaways! Seat prices: £14.00 / Reduced Rate £11.00 / Eden Court Friends Discount Applies Tel: 01463 234234 BOOK ONLINE: http://www.eden-court.co.uk/ whats-on/shows/banff-mountain-filmfestival Friday 31st January 7.30pm Gordie MaKeeman & His Rhythm Boys OneTouch Theatre Eden Court Theatre Bishops Rd Inverness IV3 5SA The award-winning Gordie MacKeeman & His Rhythm Boys serve up old-time roots music with an energy level that practically yanks you out of your seat. If ever someone was deserving of the nickname Crazy Legs, it is Gordie MacKeeman. His thrilling dance style mixed with great bluegrass vocals, alongside Peter Cann’s blistering guitar solos, and the lively multi-instrumental talents of Thomas Webb and Mark Geddes, make for an unforgettable live experience. The Rhythm Boys were given the Galaxie Supernova Award at the 2012 Ot-
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tawa Folk Festival for outstanding live performance. Tom Power, host of Deep Roots, recently called the Rhythm Boys his Best Discovery Band at the 2012 East Coast Music Awards. BOOK ONLINE: http://www.edencourt.co.uk/whats-on/shows/gordiema-keeman-h-is-rhythm-boys Tel: 01463234234 Seat prices: Standard Price £12.00 / Reduced Rates £10.00 / Eden Court Friends Discount Applies - See more at: http://www.explore-inverness.com/whats-on/2014/01/gordiemakeeman-his-rhythm-boys/#sthash. tJiYR0HC.dpuf
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