What’s On in Highland Perthshire April 2017 www.HighlandPerthshire.com If you have an Event you would like to advertise FREE OF CHARGE info@explorescotland.net with Date/Time/Event/ Venue/Price
Sunday 2nd April to Sun 1st October (1st Sunday each month) 10am to 2pm Aberfeldy Farmers Market The Square, Aberfeldy PH15 2DD
The farmers market has a fantastic range of fresh produce including meat, vegetables, fish, cheese, bread, chocolate and lots of beautiful hand crafted items for sale. Further details from NB We try to make sure all the information we Fiona MacEwan, 01887 829343 or 07990 834092 post is accurate, but please check directly with the or aberfeldymarket@btopenworld.com. venue concerned before committing yourself.
CONTINUOUS EVENTS 1st April - 27th April Birks Cinema Celtic Acoustic Music Every Thursday 7pm to 10.30pm Birks Cinema Celtic Acoustic Music Birks Cinema, Aberfeldy PH15 2DA Everyone is welcome to come along to play or just enjoy the music, which may be anything from folk, blues, bluegrass or instrumental. It is free entry, sit in comfort in the upstairs cinema bar, with a drink and song. Further details Doug tel: 01887 820165 www.birkscinema.co.uk
Saturday 15th April to 16th December (3rd Saturday each month) 10.00am to 2.00pm Pitlochry Market Pitlochry Business Centre, Armoury Road.PH16 5AP.
Local Traders, Produce and Crafts. For more details email: stalls@pitlochrymarket.co.uk or www.PitlochryMarket.co.uk
Wednesday 5th April to Wednesday 4th October Wonderful Wednesdays Pitlochry Golf Club, Golf Course Road, Pitlochry, Perthshire PH16 5QY
£15 includes Green Fees and Stableford competition entry fee, if you have an official registered CONGU handicap Non handicapped golfers are also welcome for £15 Green Fees. A great excuse for a midweek break in Pitlochry. AN OPEN COMPETITION MOST WEDNESDAYS* – open to all - gents, ladies, senMonday 3rd April to Friday 7th iors, juniors and visitors. *Due to other events April (9.30am to 4pm) such as our Golf Week and both Highland Open Children Easter Holidays Activity weeks, our Wonderful Wednesday competitions Days may not run - please check with the Pro Shop team. Tee times available all day - no restricAberfeldy, Kenmore and Weem tions (Bookings essential – Phone Pro-Shop). For At Wee Adventures our passion is to encourage people to explore the great outdoors of Highland entry details call 01796 472 792 or email info@ Perthshire. Based in Aberfeldy and run by Richard pitlochrygolf.co.uk (Biscuit) and Sarah Turner. We run Activity Days over the Easter holidays with LOTS of Activity Thursday 13th to Saturday 15th Days to keep the children entertained (for 5 to 12 April 7.00pm years olds). Each day 9:30am to 4pm.
Mon 3rd April - Climbing and abseil- Festival Of One Act Plays SCDA Scottish Final ing, Weem Woods. Festival Theatre Tues 4th April - Open canoeing, Loch Pitlochry Pitlochry Festival Theatre is delighted to once Tay from Kenmore. again play host to this major event in conjunction Wed 5th April - Bush craft, Weem with the SCDA, which has acted as the representative body for amateur theatre in Scotland since Woods. the 1920s. With the eventual winner representing Thurs 6th April - Tree climbing and Scotland in the British Festival in July, this is sure slacklining, The Birks. to be three superb evening of entertainment, Fri 7th April - Forest Fun, Weem high drama and dramatic tension – good luck to everyone involved! £17.00 (or £48.00 for all three Woods. Cost: £30 per child, 10% sibling discount available. 8 places per day. Booking essential. Get in touch if we can help you, your family, friends or children get outside for a truly enriching outdoor experience. For more information email sarah@ weeadventures.com or call 07780 675859.
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What’s On Highland Perthshire
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Wednesday 12th April - 2.00pm 3.30pm Easter Treasure Hunt At Glen Tilt Car Park, by Blair Atholl
talks around a log-fire in the authentic Crannog roundhouse, demonstrations and hands-on experience of ancient crafts. Saturday 1st April 11.30am Each of our 2017 events is inspired by at least one ‘artefact of the month’ discovered in our Alice In Wonderland underwater excavations of a 2,500 year old Pitlochry Festival Theatre loch-dwelling in Loch Tay. In April, we celebrate Join us to follow clues and find Easter treasure in A welcome return from Immersion Theatre after the finds of an ancient wooden butter dish that a highly successful performance of Rapunzel last the woods. Who for: Families. Children £2 CHILstill contained butter fat residue and spelt wheat DREN MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT year, bringing its trademark high energy perforON ALL RANGER EVENTS. To contact the ranger grains that make delicious bread and pancakes. mance to its most spectacularly bonkers show Prior to our discoveries, it was thought that the service, phone 01796 481355, or email pf@ to date. Don’t miss your chance to see a classic Romans introduced spelt wheat to Scotland but atholl-estates.co.uk story brought to life – fun for all the family! £12. since they arrived some 500 years later, the nawww.AthollEstatesRangerService.co.uk 50 (adult); £7.50 (under 16s); £27.00 (family tive farmers and crannog-dwellers get to take the ticket – 2 adults, 2 children) | Box Office 01796 credit! 484 626 www.PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com Thursday 13th April 2.00pmJoin us on Easter Sunday and take a step back in 3.30pm time with our expert guides who will demonstrate Saturday 1st April 7.30pm ancient cooking methods to produce delicious Battle of Killiecrankie Pasadena Roof Orchestra Killiecrankie Visitor Centre, PH16 pancakes and more. Tastings will take place throughout the day. Pitlochry Festival Theatre 5LG This superb event is the first of many throughout When it comes to dance band and early swing Get to grips with the gory details of this grue2017 at the award-winning Scottish Crannog Cenmusic, the Pasadena Roof Orchestra has no some battle. Interactive battle talk, weapons tre, neatly coinciding with Visit Scotland’s Year of equal, performing the finest arrangements by the display and children’s craft activities. No booking History, Heritage and Archaeology best musicians under the directorship of bandrequired. Adults £5; Children £3. North PerthTel: 01887 830583 leader and singer, Duncan Galloway. £25.00 | Box shire Ranger Service. www.crannog.co.uk Office 01796 484 626 www.PitlochryFestivalThea- Tel: 01796 473233 www.nts.org.uk tre.com
DAILY DIARY EVENTS
Tuesday 4th April 10am – 12.30pm Saturday 15th April 11.00am2.00pm Hermitage Survival Skills The Hermitage Lower Car Park - 1 Cadbury Egg Hunt The Hermitage Lower Car Park mile north of Dunkeld Join the rangers for an action packed morning at the Hermitage shelter building, learning how to tie simple knots and lighting an outdoor fire using a fire steel. No booking required. Children £3; accompanying adults free. North Perthshire Ranger Service. Tel:01350 728641 www.nts.org.uk
Friday 7th April 7.30pm Jacqui Dankworth & Charlie Wood Pitlochry Festival Theatre
British jazz singer Jacqui Dankworth is the daughter of the jazz musician, arranger and composer Sir John Dankworth and singer Dame Cleo Laine. Features numbers including Alone Together, It Doesn’t Mean A Thing, A Foggy Day, You’ve Got A Friend and other favourites. £18.50 Box Office 01796 484 626 www.PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com
Saturday 8th April 7.30pm ‘Allo ‘Allo Tribute Murder Mystery Dinner Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Step back in time to occupied France, for a riproaring, rollicking, rollercoaster ride in René’s Café, a place where reistance is in the air and almost everyone has something to hide. This promises to be another hilarious evening of great food and entertainment from the Walking Theatre eaterny. Be sure to book early to avoid disappointment! £32.00 (includes 3 course dinner) Box Office 01796 484 626 www.PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com
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Collect your hunt map, follow the clues, solve the puzzle and claim your chocolatey reward! Each hunt is completely different – the perfect excuse to hop along to more than one! No booking required. Children £3; accompanying adults free North Perthshire Ranger Service. Tel:01350 728641 www.nts.org.uk
Sunday 30th April 10.30am – 4.30pm BELTANE CELEBRATION The Scottish Crannog Centre, Kenmore, Loch Tay, Perthshire PH15 2HY
Artefact of the month – Wooden Tapers (Fir candles) Beltane is one of the most important dates in the Celtic calendar. Join us for this very special day of storytelling, ceremonial fire, garland-making and skills demonstrations. All day time events include museum exhibits, talks around a log-fire in the Crannog roundhouse, demonstrations and hands-on experience Sunday 16th April 11.00amof ancient crafts and technologies 2.00pm Beltane marks a time when livestock were put out to pasture. Rituals were performed to protect Cadbury Egg Hunt Killiecrankie Killiecrankie Visitor Centre. PH16 cattle, crops and people from harm and to encourage growth during the summer months. 5LG Bonfires were lit, feasts prepared and offerings Collect your hunt map, follow the clues, solve the made. Flowers were used to decorate homes, puzzle and claim your chocolatey reward! Each cattle and byres. hunt is completely different – the perfect excuse In early May, we mark the discovery of ancient to hop along to more than one! No booking light sticks, used like candles, made from resinrequired. Children £3; accompanying adults free ous pine. They may have been used to light . North Perthshire Ranger Service ceremonial fires or brighten a dim corner in the Tel: 01796 473233 Crannog and many were burnt at both ends. www.nts.org.uk They are the only pine artefacts discovered so far from Oakbank Crannog. We invite you to join our celebration and bring Sunday 16th April 10.30am – blossoms along with you to decorate the Crannog 4.30pm and to add to our wild flowers and foliage for EASTER EGG-STRAVAGANZA garlands and crowns. The Scottish Crannog Centre, Ken- Tel: 01887 830583 www.crannog.co.uk more, Loch Tay, Perthshire PH15
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Artefacts of the month - Spelt wheat grains and a wooden colander with butter remains Help us kick start our 20th anniversary year by joining us to celebrate Easter with pancakes cooked over an open fire; make your own bread rolls to be baked in our clay ovens and churn your own butter to spread on them. Hands-on fun and learning all in one go! All day time events include museum exhibits,