What’s On November & December 2019

Aberfeldy, , , Kenmore, and Rannoch

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Every Thursday Evening from 8pm Join the local Musicians 15th September to 30th November 9.30am and Royal Dunkeld Hotel Bar, Atholl St, Dunkeld PH8 0AR 1.30pm Every Thursday evening local musicians gather and Autumn watch Safaris Tuesday 5th November 6pm play in the bar. It adds a lovely atmosphere to a bar Highland Safaris By Aberfeldy PH15 Struan Trust Bonfire Night that sells real ales and a whole selection of other 2JQ At the SCC Campsite (Off the B847 Calvine – drinks including tea and coffee. The Woodlands “No Question – One of our Best Safaris” Every Trinafour road) Bistro next door serves a good menu of food for Season brings a new magic. Head High into the hills Struan Trust Bonfire Night is sponsored by House those who want an evening meal. We recommend to see and hear the primal roar of the Red Deer Rut of Bruar. Come along and enjoy a Bonfire Night booking a table (yes it does get busy) and retiring to and the amazing Autumn Colours at their most and fireworks. Gates open 6pm, Bonfire lit at the bar after your meal. Please note these musicians dramatic. Sights and sounds not to be missed. 6.30pm. Fireworks start at 7pm. Please find us at the are not paid, they do it for their own enjoyment, so Includes refreshments on safari. INCLUDES SCC Campsite (B847 Calvine – Trinafour) Free do not expect it to like a concert on a stage. Royal Binoculars and telescope. Hot drinks, shortbread admission includes a cup of homemade soup & Dunkeld Hotel: 01350 727322 and a dram of whisky. Wildlife identification sheets sausage rolls. All donations towards the Struan and factfiles. Hats & hand warmers if required. Trust are greatly appreciated. Homebaking is Autumnwatch runs in conjunction with our other available to buy on the night. More details available safaris and events check our website for details. from the Struan Trust Facebook page or from Ian Duration 2 ½ hours. COST – Adult £45. Teenager Mackinlay on 01796 483310 or £30 (12-18). Child £25. Booking is essential. Tel email [email protected] Struan Trust, 01887820071 Scottish Charity SC047336. and https://www.highlandsafaris.net/land-rover- safaris/autumn-watch.html

Every Friday 8pm Folk and blues night in the Ewe Bar Hotel, Fortingall, By Aberfeldy, Perthshrie PH152NQ Friday night the local musicians gather to play folk and blues night in the Ewe Bar – sometimes the music is also on Saturday night Tuesday 5th November 6.30pm as well. There is nothing to beat an evening in Daily until Sunday 26th January 2020 Pitlochry and Edradour Bonfire and Fireworks the company of locals who love playing ‘Seeing the unseen’ Exhibition Display together – very special. We suggest you book Aberfeldy Watermill, Mill Street, Aberfeldy, Pitlochry Recreation ground. a table and have some food before hand in the PH15 2BG. Bring your own Guy Competition at 6pm. Food and Ewe Bar. Tel: 01887830367 For more on The common purpose for three artists, Matt drink stalls. No on site parking, so please park in Storstein, Paul Martin and Jill Martin Boualaxai is the Fortingal Hotel town and walk. Don’t bring your own fireworks or to convey delight in the meaningful materiality of sparklers. Free entry with donation buckets. The the world. Their works seek out the exceptional in bonfire will be lit at 6.45pm and the fireworks will the seemingly mundane; exploring the constant ebb be set off at 7pm. Gates open at 6pm with music and flow of the world around us. They use a similar from Heartland FM. contemplative and evocative approach which looks beneath the surface of things to discover the history and poetry of their subjects. In these works there are signs which trigger memory and knowledge, some of which remind us of past experiences and some which convey energy or excitement. We are open seven days a week 10am-5pm, (11am-5pm Sunday). 01887 822896 and [email protected]

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by Isobel McArthur Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Port-Na-Craig Rd, Pitlochry PH16 5DR A bright, bold new adaptation of the Dickens classic – one of the most loved yuletide stories ever written. In one ghostly, Christmas night, miserly businessman Ebenezer Scrooge receives a series of unexpected supernatural visitors who are determined to show him the error of his ways. Scrooge learns to pity himself and to love his neighbour – but is that enough? A fantastic, festive 5th and 19th Nov, 3rd December 6pm – 8pm tale of redemption and compassion packed with Winter Knitting Class feel-good festive music and song, dancing and joy. Karelia House, Keltyburn, By Aberfeldy PH15 Rejoice with us in the Christmas spirit! Isobel 2LS McArthur is one of Scotland’s brightest, new Learning to knit is a lot of fun, and it’s not as writing – and acting – talents, who was last seen on difficult as you might think. There are several basic Pitlochry’s stage in the award-winning The skills involved in knitting. These are the stitches and Monarch Of The Glen. Now she focusses her methods that you will use in every knitting project. creative talents to rediscover the heart of Dickens’ You will also need a few basic knitting tools to get timeless tale. started. Learn the basics, the rest will come later, so Sunday, 17th November, 3.30pm – Box Office Tel:- 01796 484626 save your money until you get into it and have a 5.30pm (Doors open 3pm) better idea of what you need (or want). Call and Concert of Armenian songs and piano music book your place on 01887 822027 Blair Castle, Blair Atholl, Pitlochry, PH18 5TL The programme consists of Armenian songs, liturgical and secular, and piano music, which displays the depth and beauty of one of the world’s great musical traditions; this will be followed by songs, and excerpts from European and Russian opera, and piano pieces. Performed by three Armenian artists: Hasmik Harutyunyan, soprano; Arshak Kuzikyan, baritone; and Marianna Abrahamyan, pianist. Doors open at 3pm, tea and coffee to be served with a selection of Armenian Thursday 7th November 3pm delights and wine tasting, included in – ticket price Saturday 23rd November – 10am to 4pm BBC Radio Scotland’s Breaking the News – £15. Tickets available to buy from https://blair- Nora Top Sewing Course Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Port Na Craig, castle.co.uk Karelia House Craft and Coffee Shop, Comrie Pitlochry PH16 5DR Bridge, By Kenmore, Aberfeldy PH15 2LS Breaking the News is back for series fourteen on Karelia House is Scotland’s top craft destination – the radio and series two on the TV! BBC Radio offering a wide variety of workshops in Textile art, Scotland’s multi-award-winning topical comedy patchwork, knitting, crochet and felting. The Nora panel show is hosted by comedian Des Clarke and Top Sewing Course is a great course to learn or invites a mix of the UK’s top comedians, improve your skills on the overlocker and commentators and up-and-coming stand-up talent to coverstitch machines, which gives your garment a take a satirical swipe at the week’s news in Scotland beautiful, professional finish. This is a pattern you and around the world. Under 18s must be are going to want to make again and again! Come accompanied by an adult, Minimum age: 16. along and you will learn a few shortcuts, tips and Maximum of 2 tickets per request. Apply for tickets tricks and pattern hacks of course all with the expert at http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/brea Sun 17 November 6.30pm – 8.30pm tuition from Tracy. You may finish the project king_the_news_series14 Stargazing at Loch of the Lowes within the day. If you have any questions at all Loch of the Lowes Visitor Centre, By Dunkeld about this course please don’t hesitate to contact Perthshire PH8 0HH Karelia House Craft and Coffee Shop on 01887 Join Robert Law from Mills Observatory, Dundee, 822027 to view the night sky and learn about the stars. If the weather is bad, Robert will give a talk in the visitor centre. Bring a torch. Nonmember £6, member £5, child £3.* (* advance booking is essential for these events; † not suitable for children under 8. Book your place by phoning Loch of the Lowes Visitor Centre on 01350 727 337, or visit 15th to scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/events) 17th Nocvember Aberfeldy Film Festival Birks Cinema, Aberfeldy A weekend of films and events focussing on animals large and small. Organised by the Heartland 29th to 1st December 10am to 4pm Film Society who present a season of monthly films Celtic Yule at the Scottish Crannog Centre from September to July, at the Birks Cinema, Scottish Crannog Centre, Kenmore, Loch Tay, Aberfeldy. By Aberfeldy PH15 2HY Free entry (donations welcome), with Christmas crafts, music, children’s activities, mulled wine and mince pieces. Also the ‘Green Lady’. 21st November to 23rd December (various times and days) A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted 2 | P a g e

Church of Scotland on Saturday. For more details [email protected]

Saturday 1st December 10am to 4pm Aberfeldy Christmas Market with Santa The Square, Aberfeldy, PH15 2DD The Vale of Atholl Pipe Band lead Santa and his Sunday 8th December 12noon to 3pm Reindeer in a parade which leaves the Aberfeldy Christmas Market Business Park at 12noon to the town square. Santa Blair Atholl village hall will then retire to his Grotto, where children can go A wide selection of stalls, including Tombola, and meet him. There will also be a market and craft Bread and Baked goods, Handmade dolls, Mary’s fair. Followed on by the switching on of the Christmas lights with carols being sung around the Meals, Card sales, Photography, Homemade bags, Cakes, local Honey, Wrought Iron Art, Earrings and Christmas Tree. Youth Performances in the Church followed by a candle lit parade from the Church to other small items of jewelry, Felt crafts and jars etc, the Square. Xmas Wreaths, Aloe Vera Based Products, Drone 14th December 2019 work and Christmas pamper stocking fillers. Christmas Disco Party Night with room Refreshments available too, always very popular. Atholl Arms, Blair Atholl, By Pitlochry PH18 Free entry. 5SG A Christmas night out with Capes and Bubbly along with a three course Dinner and Christmas Disco. There is also discounted rooms, so you do not have to drive. The Christmas Party is £37.50 per head. The rooms are £65 per room. That really is hard to beat. For bookings call 01796 481205 For full details on The Christmas Party Night in Blair Atholl

1st to 23rd December Pine Trees Hotel Christmas Menu Pine Trees Hotel, Strathview Terrace, Pitlochry PH16 5QR 14th December 10.30am to 4pm It is only in the last year that the Pine Trees Hotel Dunkeld and Birnam Santa Day has opened its doors to non residents. It has quickly Dunkeld and Birnam, PH8 0DS establishing a name for its food, the ambiance of the Celebrating 30 years of the Dunkeld and Birnam whole hotel, with two wood burning fires, comfy Santa Day. This is a fun filled family day out, it is a sofas and Victorian style decor. The Pine Trees wonderfully christmassy event that happens every Hotel Christmas Menu will we are sure attract a lot year. The day is packed with lots of fun events for of attention. 2 Courses for £22.50, 3 Courses £25.50 everyone. 11am The Clydebuilt Puppet Theatre To Book call 01796 472121. presents 2 shows in one – Jack (And the Beanstalk) and Billy (Goats Gruff)! Then Santa and his reindeer parade leave from the Birnam Hotel at 1pm. Santa and his reindeer will walk to Dunkeld over the Dunkeld Bridge to his grotto, where Santa will spend the afternoon meeting the children. There are lots of stalls there on the day and the opportunity to visit the many local businesses. There will be two stilt walkers and a naughty Christmas Tree at this year’s event. Also a “Hunt the Elf” competition for children to take part in. A “Christmas Jumper” competition for adults and children. Please also feel free to dress up your dogs and we will have a prize for the best dressed pooch. More on Dunkeld & Birnam Santa Day or call on 07712 133301

Saturday 7th December @ 12:00 am – 4:30 pm Pitlochry Christmas Festival in Pitlochry Town This year there is a festive themed treasure hunt. Local businesses will have special offers too. Lots of stalls plus a great line-up of acts who’ll be performing outside Fisher’s Hotel from 12.45 until the switch on of the Christmas Tree lights at 4.15. It all starts at noon and will culminate in the ‘official’ switch on of the Christmas tree lights outside Fishers Hotel at 4.15pm. Also remember the 2018 Pitlochry Christmas Tree Festival is at Pitlochry

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