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This was the RSAMD concert at Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop
Eleven third year music students from Glasgow’s Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) gave a concert on Sunday 11th January at Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop. Read about it, see and hear it...
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Alexander Robertson & Sons, America’s Cup Yachtbuilders at Sandbank on the...
A big player in Argyll’s nautical history was the boatbuilding business at Sandbank on the Holy Loch north of Dunoon which was run by Alexander Robertson and his sons.Robertson’s parents (his father...
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Cowal Family Gathering
The Cowal Family Gathering at Strachur on Sunday 30th August was an afternoon to wind down, to relax, to savour quieter, more intimate music along with afternoon tea. This event was part of the...
View ArticleRhapsody on Rhapsody
We’ve had several warmly positive responses to the Argyll Rhapsody, part of Argyll’s Homecoming 2009 events and organised through Argyll & Bute’s Education Department.Because of the spontaneity of...
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Celtic Connections BBC Awards
And the 2010 BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year is: Inverurie fiddler Daniel Thorpe. He beat off the competition in a closely fought competition during Celtic Connections. This was his second...
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Pipe Band fund raisers: curry, bingo and a lock-in at Inveraray Jail
Can you take the heat of the curry and the tension of a night in the thickly haunted Inveraray Jail? If you can manage the curry but not the Jail, you can sponsor the members of the Inveraray and...
View ArticleOban Lifeboat leads seaborne farewell to Jim Rankine
A moving ceremony took place yesterday morning, Saturday 24th April, just off Duart Castle.The ashes of the late Jim Rankine were scattered on the sea from the after-deck of the Oban lifeboat, Mora...
View ArticleDay of pipers and highland dancing at Mull’s Duart Castle
Between 2.00pm and 5.00pm on Sunday 12th Septembe 2010, visitors to Duart Castle are invited to join in a celebration of Scottish culture at its best.The event features performances from the local Mull...
View ArticleScotland’s superb Glasgow handover ceremony in Delhi
All this stuff about pride coming before a fall – forget it. The Scottish contribution to the closing ceremony at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi was fabulous. Just be proud.It signalled the cultural...
View ArticleMid Argyll’s MOVE to Celtic Connections
An experimental music and dance fusion created by Mid Argyll’s Wild Biscuit Music led to a short film, MOVE, that was runner up in the 2010 Palme Dewer Short Film Awards,Now MOVE – bringing together...
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A kilt in 40°C: Inveraray piper Laura McMillan now with Western Australia...
Proof that Argyll’s young folk will do whatever it takes to work is that Laura McMillan, piper with the Grade 1 Inveraray & District Pipe Band is now to be found in Perth, on the Swan River in...
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