ST ANDREW'S CELEBRATIONS 25th November - 4th December 2005

WESTERN ISLES

Chris Stout Quintet
Organised by An Lanntair
Thursday 23rd November
8pm
Tickets tbc
An lanntair, Kenneth Street. Stornoway

HIGHLANDS

Sponsored Walk for Dingwall Royal legion Pipe Band
Organised by Kenneth MacKenzie
Saturday 25th November 11am
Starting at Dingwall Business Centre and ending at Strathpeffer.
Raising money for Dingwall Royal Legion Pipe Band

Sutherland Accordion Club, Ceilidh/dance practice night
30th November
Rogart Hall, Rogart. Contact: Monica MacLean: 01408 641388

St Andrew's Ceilidh
Friday 1st December
Fairburn Memorial Hall, Marybank, Ross-shire
Admission £5 - under 12s free
7.30pm
Teas etc served, if you want something stronger, bring your own
Fiddle, whistle, accordion music, Gaelic and Scots song, Highland and step dancing - bring your dancing shoes! Fundraiser in support of the campaign against the proposed new quarry at Wester Urray
for more details contact
skinnerstewart@tiscali.co.uk

SCOTS TRAD MUSIC AWARDS
Friday 1st December - Sunday 3rd December, Fort William.
Come up for the whole weekend and make a holiday of it.

Hands up for Trad, in association with BBC Scotland Interactive, will be hosting the fourth ‘Scots Trad Music Awards’ weekend in Fort William from the 1st - 3rd December, 2006. The aim of these Awards is to highlight Scotland's wonderful traditional music in all its forms and to create a high profile opportunity which will bring the music and music industry into the spotlight of media & public attention. Thank you to all our sponsors without whom this event would not go ahead. Please support them.

In this our 4th year we have decided to extract the festival from the Central Belt, extend it from one night into a weekend event, and take it up to the Highlands for the next 2 years. This is a very exciting move for us. In the second of these years (2007) the Scots Trad Music Awards will be part of the exciting Highland 2007 Year of Culture.

Tickets for the Saturday night Scots Trad Music Awards Ceremony and Gala Concert on 2nd December are now available.

Buy online (through www.footstompin.com)
or Send a cheque to Hands Up for Trad at the address here.

Tickets are for the raked seating in the hall and cost £15 per ticket. There will be a £0.75 postage charge applied to all sales so please remember and add this to your cheque.

Thurso Accordion and Fiddle Club - Wyvis Sound
4th December
Pentland Hotel, Princes Street, Thurso, Caithness
Contact: Mrs Isobel Robertson (Secretary)
Tel: +44 (0)1847 892998 (event)

Scottish Executive Celebrations 30th November

Inverness
It's a giant eagle! Inverness is celebrating with it's many cultures. We're inviting all our communities to come down to Falcon Square to be filmed during the day with the flag by this amazing bronze sculpture. By the evening this will be transformed into a media extravaganza and be projected onto the Eastgate Centre.

With pipe bands, Ceilidh bands and local band, Schiehallion and much more - this is a night for everyone.

When: from dusk (around 5pm) until 10pm
Where: Eastgate Centre
For more information visit http://www.highland.gov.uk

St Andrew's Day activities in schools
Around the country, schools are planning a wide variety of activities. For more information please visit www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Education/ Schools/CelebratingSuccess.

For more information about One Scotland visit http://www.onescotland.com

www.scotlandistheplace.com/standrewsfestival

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