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What’s On September 2019 Aberfeldy, Blair Atholl, Dunkeld, Kenmore, Pitlochry and Rannoch Please check the details with the venue before committing yourself to any event, - make sure there have been no change in details since publication. Also check www.Pitlochry-Scotland.co.uk for updates. Organising an event? – Go to www.Pitlochry-Scotland.net What’s On page fill out the Event form or emailing [email protected]. 9th to 27th September explain what an important and influential lady she was. In 1924 she became the Pitlochry Petrol Pump first Scottish women MP often arguing CLOSED against the government, she was never So as to refit fuel tanks. afraid to voice her opinions. She voted Nearest petrol is 6 miles north at Blair against her female peers being able to Atholl (self-service 24 hr opening) or vote at 21. She was forced to leave the south on the A9 at Balinluig, the A9 party on account of her strongly held beliefs there should be no appeasement Every 2nd 4th Wednesday to 25th turning to Aberfeldy. with Adolf Hitler. A fervent campaigner September 2 to 4.pm for women and children both at home and Handbell Ringing abroad she visited war zones reporting Dunkeld Cathedral, Cathedral, Street, back on conditions. Once her political Dunkeld, PH8 0AW career ended she returned to the Castle Bi-weekly (on the 2nd and 4th and her duties with her usual enthusiasm, Wednesdays of each month) pride and love. Tel: 01796 481207 Web: performances of Handbell Ringing in https://blair-castle.co.uk/ Dunkeld Cathedral. Small Ensemble 24 May @ 8:00 pm - 5 October @ 8:00 Ringing is fascinating to watch and pm lovely to hear. The ringers are from the whole of Perthshire. Come and enjoy the 21st September 10.00am to 3.00pm music for a while. Freewill donation. For Pitlochry Market more details www.DunkeldHandBells.uk Pitlochry Business Centre, Armoury Road.PH16 5AP. Fresh meat, vegetables, bread, cakes, bakes, beer, gin, mead, jewellery, arts and crafts. Local Traders, Produce and Crafts. For more details. email: [email protected] or www.PitlochryMarket.co.uk To 5th October (various times and days) Summer Holiday Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Port-Na- Craig Rd, Pitlochry PH16 5DR 8th September 10am to 2pm During a wet Scottish summer, Pitlochry Aberfeldy Farmers Market + Crafts & bus driver Don whisks his workmates Art Fair away on a borrowed bus, in search of The Square, Aberfeldy PH15 2DD sunshine and fun in Athens! Along the The farmers market has a wide range of way, the boys pick up a stowaway, rescue fresh produce including meat, vegetables, stranded singing trio Do-Re-Mi and fall fish, cheese, bread, chocolate and lots of in love! One of the most popular movies beautiful hand crafted items for sale. Daily to 31st October of the 60s, immortalised by Cliff Richard Further details from Fiona MacEwan, Duchess Kitty Exhibition Scotland’s and The Shadows, make sure you jump 01887 829343 or 07990 834092 or first female MP on board to sing along with the happiest, [email protected] Blair Castle, Blair Atholl PH18 5TL hit-filled, feel-good musical of your The Crafts & arts fair is in the Birks The story of Scotland’s first female MP, summer holiday. Tickets: from £20.00 Cinema – you will find ‘Craftnade is the story of how society changed to PLUS groups offers, family tickets and Traditional, Contemporary, Unique, allow women to have the vote. The concessions. Box Office Tel:- 01796 Bespoke, Scottish’ art from in and around Duchess affectionately known as Kitty, a 484626 Highland Perthshire. Further details petite beauty and talented musician. She contact Lynn Shilp 01887 830620 or e- visited Blair Castle in 1896 and stole the mail [email protected] 8th Duke’s heart. She was initially a vocal opponent of women’s suffrage in her earlier years. Relatively unknown by the public today the new exhibition will 1 | P a g e Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Port-Na- £16.00 PLUS groups offers, family Craig Rd, Pitlochry PH16 5DR tickets and concessions. Box Office Tel:- Celebrated (and often cantankerous!) 01796 484626 novelist Charles Condomine has invited a The Crucible by Arthur Miller local medium and eccentric, Madame 20 June @ 8:00 pm - 27 September @ Arcati, to hold a séance at his house, as 8:00 pm research for his latest book. Rather surprisingly, the hapless Arcati calls up the ghost of Charles’ first wife – the 2nd September 7.30pm to 9pm alluring Elvira. Safe in the knowledge Pitlochry Highland Nights that only Charles can see her, Elvira Pitlochry Recreation Ground embarks on a series of troublesome Follow the Vale of Atholl Pipe Band events that quickly move from somewhat down to the recreation ground from harmless to very dangerous… Blithe Fishers Hotel. The band leaves Fishers Spirit is Coward’s most successful, Hotel car park at 7.15pm and marches inventive, highly spirited comedy. It was To 27th September (various times and down Atholl Road to the recreation the longest running hit of his career. days) ground. Gates open at 7pm. An evening Tickets: from £16.00 PLUS groups The Crucible by Arthur Miller of traditional Scottish entertainment with offers, family tickets and concessions. Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Port-Na- the Vale of Atholl pipe band, singers, Box Office Tel:- 01796 484626 Craig Rd, Pitlochry PH16 5DR accordionists and Scottish and Highland Blonde Bombshells of 1943 By Alan For the puritanical folk of Salem, Country Dancers held in the Recreation Plater Massachusetts, the news that their young Ground, Pitlochry. You can park your car women have been conjuring spirits in the on the recreation ground and watch from forest is devastating. It means the devil is the car. Ideal for those who are less amongst them. And the devil must be mobile. If wet the event is held in hunted down and driven out, whatever the Pitlochry Town Hall on West Moulin cost. Fear and suspicion spirals quickly Road (just below the Coop out of control, unleashing a murderous Supermarket). Adults £7, Children £1. powder keg of accusations, hysteria, lust www.HighlandNight.co.uk and revenge. Arthur Miller’s 1953 play is Cocktail Night at the Mash Tun Bar, one of the most powerful pieces of 20th Blair Athol Distillery. century theatre. Written as an allegory for To 27th September (various times and McCarthyism, when the US government days) persecuted its citizens for being Blonde Bombshells of 1943 By Alan communists, this parable of politics, Plater religious fervour and fear is a masterpiece Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Port-Na- which still resonates in the 21st Century. Craig Rd, Pitlochry PH16 5DR Tickets: from £16.00 PLUS groups Band leader Betty is in trouble. Her offers, family tickets and concessions. glamorous, all female 8-piece band has Box Office Tel:- 01796 484626 finally landed a big-time BBC th 27 September 5pm – 8pm performance on the wireless, but various Cocktail Night at the Mash Tun Bar illicit liaisons with the yanks have Blair Athol Distillery, Perth Road, depleted their ranks. In double-quick Pitlochry PH16 5LY time, remaining band mates recruit new Join us the last Friday of every month at talent! Enter a draft-dodging drummer Pitlochry’s must see whisky who is unafraid to don a frock, a nun who bar. Welcome drink on arrival for the plays a mean ukulele, an innocent event on May 31st. Open 5pm – schoolgirl clarinetist and a rather snooty 8pm. Drams from £3 and Cocktails soldier saxophonist. Will Betty and her To £6. Come and join us for some after work assorted crew give the performance of 15th-September (Departs daily 4.30pm) refreshments and great malts. Tel 01796 their lives? Summer Watch Safaris: No Question – 482003 Based on the BAFTA-winning, TV film An Opportunity of a Lifetime! starring Judi Dench, this show is Highland Safaris, By Aberfeldy PH15 guaranteed to raise your spirits with 2JQ stunning, live vocal and musical Summer is here! Nothing compares to the performances of hits by Glenn Miller, beauty, peace and tranquility of our hills The Andrews Sisters, George Formby, and glens. The upland moors are starting Fats Waller and more, with all the glitz to turn purple as the heather flowers. Red and sparkle of a by-gone but not forgotten Grouse have hatched their chicks, our era. With songs Don’t Sit Under The moors reverberate with the humming of Apple Tree, Loch Lomond, T’ain’t What To 28th September (various times and Bees and the elusive Mountain Hare now You Do, Goodbye-ee, Wish Me Luck As days) matches the grey of the rocks. In the You Wave Me Goodbye. Tickets: from Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward fading light with amazing photo 2 | P a g e opportunities and the chance to see bright future in a new country. Leaving amazing wildlife. Enjoy refreshments Ulster behind, Sarah and her family carve high in the hills where the serenity and out their existence in an emerging sheer magnificence of this vista will community. Drawn to one another become an everlasting memory. The through tales of a near-forgotten, Summer Watch Safaris depart at 1630hrs mythical Ireland, Sarah and her and includes a chilled wine or a hot drink. neighbour Michael Donoghue become Perfect for a pre-dinner adventure. We firm friends. But when Sarah and look forwards to seeing you soon and Michael’s relationship deepens by Nicola welcoming on Summer Watch Safari! McCartney and his determination to Booking highly recommended as they are define his identify catches fire, centuries To 25th September (various times and popular. Tel:- 01887 of conflict threaten to blight their love.