Beethoven: a life in Eight Chapters at Perth Concert Hall

TOP international pianist Llyr Williams praised Perth audiences for their music knowledge and appreciation as he embarked on his epic voyage through Beethoven’s piano sonatas in Perth Concert Hall on Tuesday.Read

Joss Ackland at Winter Words Festival

IT is so appropriate that Joss Ackland should put in an appearance at Pitlochry’s increasingly-renowned Winter Words Festival, now six years old.Read

Fair City Junior Singers prepare for new show

THE Fair City Junior Singers are looking for talented young singers and actors to present the fun musical ‘Frankie and Me’, based on the famous story of Frankenstein.Read

Glenfarg Folk Feast line-up announced

THE world-famous Sands Family from Co Down in Northern Ireland headline this year’s Glenfarg Folk Feast (April 9-11), with Dundee’s Michael Marra also certain to be a crowd-pleaser.Read

Perth Amateur Operatic Society present Thoroughly Modern Millie

PERTH Amateur Operatic Society are looking forward to bringing Thoroughly Modern Millie to audiences in Perth Theatre this spring.Read

Learn from top authors at AK Bell Library event

TOP names from the literary world are coming to Perth this spring to share their expertise with local writers.Read

Horsecross Arts on Arts Council programme

HORSECROSS Arts is one of 51 Arts organisations which have been accepted on to the Scottish Arts Council’s £1million Ambition Scotland programme.Read

Proof at Perth Theatre

THERE is a touch of class to Perth Theatre’s first production of 2010 – the Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Proof’.Read

Winter Words Festival in Pitlochry

RIVER City actress Deirdre Davis and Pitlochry Festival Theatre regular Dougal Lee will take to the stage next Friday (February 5) to bring to life the words of writer Alasdair Gray.Read

Proof opens at Perth Theatre

THE award-winning drama, Proof, opens at Perth Theatre tonight – the first Horsecross production of 2010.Read

Alasdair Beatson serves up lunchtime treat in Perth Concert Hall

PERTH pianist Alasdair Beatson whetted appetites in Perth Concert Hall on Monday as he served up the first offering in the 2010 Lunchtime Concert Series with his opening performance as artist in residence. (see review on p38).Read

Barbara Dickson in Pitlochry and Perth

BARBARA Dickson’s remarkable career spanning more than 40 years has harvested success as a singer and actress. And now she has the luxury of being able to turn her back on acting and do what she loves best – singing.Read

CD launch at Fiddle Tree event

THE Fiddle Tree and the Birnam Quartet join forces at Birnam Arts Centre next Saturday (February 6) when the band will officially launch their new CD ‘The Music of Burns’ and the Fiddle Tree will unveil their 2010 concert series.Read

Perthshire fiddle player leads off Tune-Up series

THE first Tune Up tour of 2010 is an inspired collaboration from young Scottish folk group Breabach and Québécois quartet Le Vent Du Nord, writes Alison Anderson.Read

Stephen K. Amos review

ANYONE wishing to postpone the start of the working week may well have wished they were at Perth Concert Hall on Sunday to see stand-up star Stephen K Amos.Read

Mary Queen of Scots drama at The Watermill

LOCALLY-based actress Anna Hepburn performs her own ‘The Last Letter – Mary Queen of Scots’ in the intimate setting of The Watermill in Aberfeldy at 7pm on Thursday, February 11.Read

Evening concert in St Ninian’s

IN September 2009 an exciting new development in the musical life of St Ninian’s Cathedral took place with the launch of the Friends of Perth Cathedral Music.Read

Off Kilter at Perth Concert Hall

THERE was certainly no requirement to be an aficionado or even an enthusiast of dance to enjoy the unique experience of Off Kilter – a fabulous celebration of dance and music styles alive and kicking in Scotland today.Read

Climber Andy Kirkpatrick to close Winter Words Festival

TOP British mountaineer, big-wall climber and winter expedition specialist, Andy Kirkpatrick (pictured) will close the 2010 Winter Words Festival at Pitlochry Festival Theatre on Sunday, February 7.Read

Perth Chamber Music Society review

FOR their first concert of the new decade Perth Chamber Music were again in St Ninian’s Cathedral, Perth. In a change to the advertised concert their guests were clarinetist Jean Johnson and popular Perth-born pianist Scott Mitchell.Read

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