Tarland Food & Music Festival 2018 Programme French Bistro at Angie's
Tarland Food & Music Festival 2018 Programme
French Bistro at Angie’s Café Friday 28th, 6pm and Saturday 29th, 6.30pm. Angie’s Cafe. Adult £18 Child £10. Booking advised. Licensed Bar. Come and enjoy an evening of classic French food at Angie’s Cafe.
Menu Coq au Vin Or Salmon en Croute Or Quiche Lorraine All served with dauphinoise potatoes, frenchbeans in a garlic and mustard dressing
A selection of Tarte Tatin, Meringue, Creme Fraiche and Fruit
Project Smok plus Malcolm Jones & Paul Anderson in concert Friday 28th, 7.30-11pm. Main Hall, Doors open at 7pm. Adults £16 Concessions £13. Booking Advised. Licensed Bar Ali Levack’s astonishing firebrand whistle playing sounds as though it owes as much to the influence of the great jazz wind players as it does to his roots in Scottish music. Ali Hutton provides a rhythmic, groove filled guitar style and with accompaniment from legendary bodhran player Martin O’Neill. Together they are Project Smok, playing traditional music in a revolutionary new way. Ali Levack was a finalist in the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician 2018, and for this special concert in Tarland is joined by multi-instrumentalist Ali Hutton, winner of the best duo category at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2017 (along with Ross Ainslie). Renowned bodhran player, Martin O’Neill has toured with the likes of Stevie Wonder, Béla Fleck & The Flecktones, Julie Fowlis, Danú, Fred Morrison and Treacherous Orchestra. Malcolm Jones has been a member of Celtic rock band Runrig for longer than he cares to remember. 2018 saw the band undertake their emotional Farewell Tour, finishing off with two celebratory concerts in the shadow of Stirling Castle. Now he hopes to have more time to strap on the accordion and guitar and play his other love, the bagpipe and instrumental music of the North West Highlands. For Tarland Food and Music Festival, he is joined by one of the best players and composers of traditional fiddle music in Scotland, local hero Paul Anderson. Together they will blend east and west coast styles for a marvellously entertaining evening of traditional Scottish music.
Local Produce Market Saturday 29th, 10-12noon. Main Hall. Free entry. An exciting range of food and art stalls from local producers, including Mortlach Game, Highlanders Bakehouse, John Fraser Vegetables, Tarland Bee Group, Tarland Community Garden, and many more. Teas and home-baking by Cromar Senior Citizens.
Project Smok Workshop – TO BE CONFIRMED Saturday 29th, 10.30-12noon. Upper Hall, approached by a staircase which may not be suitable for those with mobility difficulties. Adults £12. Booking Advised. The workshop will be on Whistle with Ali Levack. Intermediate to Advanced.
The Singing Land: A Musical Walk with Paul Anderson Saturday 29th, 10.15-12noon. Meet at the Aberdeen Arms, Adults £10, Children £5, Concession £8 Join the internationally renowned local fiddler Paul Anderson for a guided walk around Tarland, stopping for musical interludes and local history tales.
Moth Trapping Saturday 29th, 10.30 - 11.30am. Tarland Community Garden - Free entry Led by Aberdeenshire Council Ranger Service & Butterfly Conservation Discover the marvellous diversity of moths and their roles in nature. We will unveil last night’s live moth trap catch, which can be like unwrapping a gift - you never know what delights may be inside! Under 16’s must be accompanied.
Finzean School of Piping - Pipes and Drums Saturday 29th, 12noon. The Square Jenny Murray has taught the bagpipes to 50 learners over the years. 6 years ago She started up the Finzean School of Piping, a pipe band with members ranging from 6 years to 68 years. The pipe band enjoy playing at local events, charity events and care homes.
Caroldson’s Coffee Saturday 29th, 12-4pm, Sunday 30th 10-4pm. Hall Foyer. Caroldson’s coffee and cake. A pop up café enterprise bringing a high quality coffee shop experience to rural communities in West Aberdeenshire. Caroldsons will be keeping us well fed over the weekend, offering fresh organic cakes, pastries and a full range of espresso based coffees.
Smoke and Soul Saturday 29th, 12-4pm. The Square. From a family of butchers, local foodies Smoke and Soul know a thing or two about quality cuts of meat. Specialising in slow smoking and BBQ spit-roasts, our Saturday caterers in the Square will be serving hearty soul food, packed with flavour and personality. Try their 12hour smoked pulled pork in soft brioche or mouth-watering porchetta straight off the spit-roast in a crusty ciabatta, with rocket, sauce and Italian cheese. Not a meat-eater? Then their spicy chipotle 5 bean stew will surely tantalize your taste buds.
Saturday and Sunday Lunchtime in the Hall 12-3pm There will be a seating area for lunch in the main hall. Come and find out about the NEW Singing Land App, which will be launched on Saturday at 1pm. On Sunday at 1.30pm buy a chair at the Chair Art Auction. Also over lunchtime, will be the chance to see the Tarland Tapestry, hear about the great work of Tarland & Mid Deeside Community First Responders and the Tarland Housing Group, along with other local projects.
Storyteller Saturday 29th, 12.30-2.30pm. Small Hall - Donations welcome Pauline is a storyteller from the fishing and farming traditions of the North East of Scotland and enjoys telling a variety of traditional Scottish tales, fairy tales, folk tales creation myths and the occasional home-grown tale of her own. Since 2001 she has been involved in many storytelling events and projects which have allowed her to build on her enthusiasm for science, history and the environment. Pauline has been privileged to learn both stories and ballads from Stanley Robertson and also loves to sing traditional Scots songs and bothy ballads. She is also the current chair of the Grampian Association of Storytellers. Pauline loves to tell stories for schools, care homes, special needs groups, festivals, castles, out in the open – just anywhere there is an audience for the stories she loves!
Open Community Garden with Teas Saturday 29th, 12-4pm. Adults £3, children free Tarland Community Garden opened in 2013 and is a Tarland Development Group project. It provides an inclusive and accessible community growing space for local residents. It has indoor (polytunnel) and outdoor raised beds for rent plus communal planting areas including a soft fruit cage, fruit trees, and a herb garden. It is a place for members to grow produce, learn, share and have fun. Come and see the garden in full bloom. The Banchory Singers will be performing at 3pm.
The Launch of the app The Singing Land: A Musical Walk Around Tarland Saturday 29th, 1pm. Main Hall For any of you who can’t make Paul Anderson’s walk this morning, or who want to do it all again, or who want even more of his wonderful music and stories, the Tarland Development Group has created a brand new app. With 30 points scattered across the local path network, from the Square to the top of Pressendye, anyone with a smart phone or tablet with a gps can listen to stories and music from Paul and bothy ballad champion Shona Donaldson in the places that inspired them. Paul will introduce the app and play a tune or two, then you will able to download the app (for free) and try it out.
Pollinator Walk / Minibeast Hunt Saturday 29th, 1.00-1.45pm & 2.00 - 2.45pm. Community Garden – Free, but adults will have to pay £3 entry into the Community Garden Led by Aberdeenshire Council Ranger Service & Butterfly Conservation Explore the amazing variety of our pollinating insects – how you tell your bumblebee from your hoverfly and what we can do to help these tireless workers. We will search for some among the flowers in the Community Garden. Under 16’s must be accompanied. Throughout the day there will be a stand in the MacRobert Hall where you can find out about planting for pollinators, making bug homes and more!
Little Buddha Beauty and Bakes Saturday 29th, 1-3pm. Upper Hall, approached by a staircase which may not be suitable for those with mobility difficulties. Adults £16.50 Booking advised. In this hands on workshop you will make a vegan summer fruit cheesecake, which is also gluten free (but does contain NUTS), which you will take home with you. Debbie will talk about how she came to be “little buddha” and answer the question “why do so many of us suffer from food intolerances?”
Beer Tasting with Deeside Brewery and Distillery Saturday 29th, 2-3pm. The Commercial Hotel, £10 Malt, yeast, hops and water, how we hand make our beers and ales in a small steading in Banchory. Learn what makes our beers unique and how the flavour is achieved. Over 18’s Only.
Gin Tasting with Deeside Brewery and Distillery Saturday 29th, 3.30-4.30pm. The Commercial Hotel, £15 A look into the real world of gin production from grain to glass and all the botanicals which create our gins. Learn how we make our mash, wash and spirit in house to produce a bold and unique Scottish made product. Over 18’s Only.
Wild Fermentation Workshop Saturday 29th, 3-5pm. Upper Hall, approached by a staircase which may not be suitable for those with mobility difficulties. Adults £20. Booking advised. Join Eleanor Brown, the Fermented Forager, for an introduction to the ancient art of fermentation. At this two hour workshop you will learn how to create a range of fermented food and drinks, how to care for starter cultures and what foraged plants work well with ferments. Come and sample vegetable ferments, kefir, sourdough bread and kombucha. Make your own vegetable kraut and, if you want to get more adventurous, take home a starter culture of your choice. Fermenting is an amazing way to play with flavours, to preserve and to enhance the nutritional quality of food as well as promote healthy gut bacteria.
Banchory Singers Saturday 29th, 3-4pm. Tarland Community Garden. £3 Adult entry fee for the garden Banchory Singers were started in 1984 by Marion Jenkins and Tara Leiper has been their Music Director for 16 years. They have toured in Norway and Germany and hosted choirs from Germany. Banchory Singers frequently host 'Come and Sing' days when other singers in the area can join for a day of singing. They sing a very wide range of songs from renaissance, classical, popular, music theatre and traditional. Come and hear them in this fabulous garden setting.
Farming with Nature: How can we balance efficient food production with biodiversity in the Howe of Cromar? Saturday 29th, 4-6pm, Upper Hall, approached by a staircase which may not be suitable for those with mobility difficulties. Free entry. Confirmed panellists are: Adam Smith, Director of the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) in Scotland Dr Katrin Prager, Senior Lecturer in the Geography Department at the University of Aberdeen, who also holds a joint appointment as Senior Social Researcher at the James Hutton Institute Davie Winton, National Farmers Union (NFU) North East Regional Board Chairman.
Session with Paul Anderson Saturday 29th, 5-7pm. Aberdeen Arms. Free entry. Friendly session at which everyone is welcome, with or without an instrument, to enjoy this open and inclusive music circle.
Blazin’ Fiddles in Concert, with Support From The Rowies. Saturday 29th, 8-12midnight. Main Hall. Doors Open at 7pm. Adults £18 Concessions £15 The Rowies are a young, traditional, folk band formed of three teenagers aged between 16 and 18 years old, based in North East Scotland. They formed in September 2016 and have played supporting bands such as Session A9, Old Blind Dogs, Nordic Fiddlers Bloc, and Dallahan. In July 2017 they won Speyfest’s Young Entertainer of the Year and also played on the Danny Kyle stage at Celtic Connections, receiving a ‘highly recommended’ review. Now they are back in Tarland! Blazin’ Fiddles are one of the world’s most prolific fiddle groups. Celebrating their 20th year in 2018 - and with the release of their ninth album, The Key, in November 2017 – no other band has quite managed to capture the excitement, passion and sensitivity of Scottish music all at once. With a Blazers performance comes the rare opportunity to hear regional expressions from Scotland’s Highlands and Islands, and we are delighted to host them in this year’s festival. Harp Recital by Susan Zappert in the Bar Come along before the main concert starts to hear Susan play a variety of Scottish, Gaelic, Welsh, English, Irish and Breton tunes.
Brioche and Bannocks with Doug Cookson from the Crannach Bakery Sunday 30th, 9-12noon. Small Hall, £10. Booking strongly advised. A bread making workshop with butter, eggs and fruit. Enjoy baking with this accomplished baker.
Wonderful Waves with Cromar Future Group Sunday 30th 10-11.30am. Main Hall. Free entry. Musical instruments make sound waves which bring the music to our ears. Come and find out how. Drop-in family fun.
Blazin’ Fiddles Workshop Sunday 30th, 10-11.30am. Upper Hall, approached by a staircase which may not be suitable for those with mobility difficulties. £15, Booking Advised. Come along and enjoy a workshop for intermediate players or above, learning some great tunes from Kristan Harvey and Ruairidh Macmillan from Blazin’ Fiddles. Kristan Harvey Orcadian fiddler Kristan Harvey has been a regular on the Scottish folk scene since winning BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2011. Having left Orkney in 2007 to study music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, she remains in Glasgow, performing and teaching around Scotland and further afield. As well as Blazin’ Fiddles, Kristan tours with Orkney four-piece Fara, and has played with a great many Scottish bands and musicians, including amidst the string sections for Admiral Fallow, Belle and Sebastian, Rod Stewart, and duetting with Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti. Having grown up immersed in the islands’ rich folk traditions, Kristan’s workshop will focus on Orkney tunes and the Orcadian style. Ruairidh Macmillan Hailing from Nairn, Rua Macmillan is one of Scotland’s top fiddlers. A B.A.(Hons) graduate in Scottish Music from the R.S.A.M.D. (now Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), he was awarded the prestigious title of BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year in 2009. Before joining Blazin’ Fiddles in 2014, Rua toured extensively throughout Europe and North America with his own award-winning trio and band, including performances at some of the world’s most prominent folk festivals. Rua is also in great demand as a tutor, focusing largely on the Highland style, and teaches regularly with Fèis Rois, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow Fiddle Workshop, as well as internationally around the world. Smoothie Bike & Fruit Kebabs Sunday 30th,10-4pm. The Square. Returning to the festival this year is our pedal powered approach to healthy eating, exercise and sustainable energy in a unique and engaging way. There will also be fruit kebabs on sale too. 1st Cromar Guides are raising funds to purchase outdoor cooking equipment. 1st Aboyne Scout Group are raising funds to take a trip to the International Scout Centre, Kandersteg, Switzerland in July 2019.
Literary Lunch at Douneside House Sunday 30th,11.30-2pm. £20, Booking Advised. Douneside House is pleased to host author Marion Miller, who will be sharing some fascinating history from her book about The MacRoberts of Douneside, with a focus on Aberdeen Angus cattle and music. You will then be invited into the library (surrounded by some of Lady MacRobert’s cherished belongings), for a two course lunch, followed by tea or coffee and homemade shortbread. To finish, the Douneside House gardeners will give you a tour of the beautiful garden, where they will share the efforts made to achieve accreditation from the Royal Horticultural Society, whilst preserving Lady MacRobert’s vision.
Mary’s Malaysian Kitchen Sunday 30th, 12-2pm. The Hall Kitchen Mary’s Kitchen was inspired by Mary’s love of food and all the delicious street food back home in Malaysia. This motivated her to open a B&B that serves Malaysian food – the only one in Aberdeen. Come along to try Mary’s lunch menu.
Chair Art Auction Sunday 30th, 1.30pm. The Main Hall. ChairArt is a community art project which is now in its 5th year. We found old chairs and gave them to anyone who wanted to take part. We encouraged participants to paint or decorate the chairs, to alter chairs or to make chairs out of other materials. The chair artists were always surprising and original, clever, thoughtful or witty. With increasing numbers we now have to ask people to find their own chairs. Chair artists have been of all ages and included people with an artistic background and many with none. Exhibitions will be in Tarland in September, first at the Tarland North East Open Studios event (NEOS) and then at the Tarland Food and Music Festival, where they will be auctioned off. See our website for details and the gallery of previous years’ chairs. Just contact us and tell us you would like to join the project. This year funds go to Cromar Volunteer Patient Transport www.aberdeenchairart.org / [email protected]
Film Club Sunday 30th, 1pm and 3pm. Upper Hall, approached by a staircase which may not be suitable for those with mobility difficulties. Free entry. Tarland Film Club will be showing two food related films. Popcorn for sale!
Ratatouille (U) at 1pm In one of Paris’s finest restaurants, Remy, a determined young rat, dreams of becoming a renowned French chef. Torn between his family’s wishes and his true calling, Remy and his pal Linguini set in motion a hilarious chain of events that turns the City of Lights upside down.
Julie and Julia (12) at 3pm Meryl Streep stars as culinary legend Julia Child, whose cookbook Mastering the art of French Cooking inspired fledgling writer Julie Powell (Amy Adams) to whip up 524 recipes in 365 days.
Bushcraft Busking with Mud Pie Adventures Sunday 30th, Under 5’s 1.30 – 2.30pm, Over 5’s 3-4pm. Drummy Woods. £5 per child, Booking advised. Join Mandy Tulloch of Mud Pie Adventures for a shake, rattle and roll in the appropriately named Drummy Woods and make a simple musical instrument to take home! Come for an explore around the lovely woodland, look for signs of nature and collect sticks and other interesting things with which to make your very own sound creator! Children to be accompanied by an adult.
Battle of the Bands Sunday 30th 3-6pm. Main Hall, £10 entry fee for competing bands, £2 entry fee for audience. Think you’ve got what it takes to be the next Rolling Stones or maybe Little Mix? Join us for a final afternoon of Festival music to find the first Tarland Battle of the Bands winner! All genres of music welcome and types of band – big and small, rock or pop, we’d love to hear you play! The competition will be compered by ‘Rosco’ of local disco fame, with a PA and drum-kit provided for all to use. The winner will be decided by audience vote, so make sure to bring all of your friends and family! Cash prizes and local fame for the winning band.
Tufty’s Treasure Hunt Collect and Return to The Paper Shop, Free Join us for some family fun with a food themed treasure hunt round the village. The winner will be announced at 2pm on Sunday.