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At the regular Monday meeting of the Dunkeld and District Strathspey and Reel Society, treasurer Margaret Hendry presented a cheque for £500 on behalf of the Society to the Macmillan Cancer Support Fund chairman Simon Howie. Margaret’s husband, Sandy Hendry, was a long time member of the society. Read

THE annual Perth Young Artist Competition, organised by the Rotary Club of Perth Kinnoull in conjunction with Perthshire Art Association, has again proved very successful.

And the 2008 winners will be presented with their prizes on Friday at the opening of the Perthshire Art Association's Annual Exhibition in Perth Art Gallery. Read

Young songbirds get the call

THE Fair City Junior Singers, directed by Marion Neilson, meets in Viewlands Primary School on Mondays (4.15pm-5.15pm). Read

Blues on offerat Pitlochry

JOHNNY Dickinson (right) and Paul Lamb have put together a concert which takes both musicians back to their musical routes, playing acoustic slide guitar and blues harmonica repertoire for a performance at Pitlochry Festival Theatre on Saturday at 7.30pm. Read

Pupils’ Musical Showcase

STRATHALLAN School recently preformed a Musical Showcase to a large audience in Perth Concert Hall. The evening saw a wide variety of performances ranging from the school’s pipe band to the angelic sound of the clarsach, as well as the orchestra, chamber choir, choral scholars, and a range of bands and ensembles. Read

Clowning around on stage

PERTHSHIRE girls Rebecca MacKenzie and Rosemary Harrison were quick to grin and bear their fate in the role of perfect housewives in Utopia 886742, the latest production from a group of 15 HNC acting and performance students at Dundee College. Read

Centre workshop

A TWO-day jewellery and glass bead-making workshop with Carole Robinson will take place this Saturday and Sunday in the Bell’s Sports Centre, Perth. Read

THE Scottish Chamber Orchestra returned to Perth Concert Hall for the second time in less than a fortnight for their Perth Concert Series performance, this time featuring music composed in Paris between the two world wars. Conducted by the dynamic Swiss conductor Thierry Fischer, who is currently the Principal Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the SCO gave a superb account of three very different pieces by Fauré, Ravel and Stravinsky all linked by their neo-classical style.

Fauré composed his suite Masques et Bergamasques in 1919, and had its premier less than five months after the Armistice. It is a genial piece consisting of a delightful overture and three charming dances and has a somewhat whimsical atmosphere that hide the horrors of the preceding years. The gentleness of the music was beautifully captured in Fischer’s expressive direction and the SCO’s attentive playing, reflecting the warmth and amiable style of the music perfectly from the bouncy rhythms of the opening Allegro, to the reflective and introspective final Pastorale. Read

Date with G&S

THE ‘sold out’ signs are up for Crieff Choral Group’s performance of The Mikado by WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan in St Andrews Church Halls, Crieff, on Saturday evening, Read

Award goes to Georgina

A TALENTED artist who is currently teaching art at Kilgraston School, Bridge of Earn, has picked up a top award at one of Scotland’s most prestigious contemporary art exhibitions, the 147th Open Annual Exhibition by the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts (RGI). Read

FAMILY loyalty and professional morality are put to the test in Gavin O’Connor’s gritty police thriller Pride and Glory.

Irish star Colin Farrell plays corrupt NYPD cop Jimmy Egan, whose underhand world comes into the spotlight after four of his force are killed on a drugs bust. Read

Comedy review: Dan Antopolski/Isy Suttie at Redrooms

The winner of the BBC New Comedy Award back in 1998 has been keeping a low profile of late, although the subject matter in his show at Perth Theatre’s Redrooms probably explained why. Read

JAZZ fans in Perth Theatre’s Redrooms were left captivated as award-winning pair Liane Carroll and Brian Kellock teamed up to deliver a sensational performance for a Monday Night Thing session this week.

The pair, who are in the process of putting together a live album set to be released in May, complemented each other brilliantly throughout a set which lasted over two hours. Read

Linda to make her mark at annual art exhibition

PERTHSHIRE Art Association (PAA) is holding its 57th Annual Exhibition at Perth Museum and Art Gallery from November 22 until December 13. Read

New book brings Perth’s fascinating past to life

A WIDE-RANGING account of Perth’s recent past, beautifully illustrated with over 200 old and new photographs, has just been published by Perth author Jeremy Duncan. Read

Theatre picks up tourism award

PITLOCHRY Festival Theatre last night won a major tourism award at the Association of Scottish Visitor Attractions’ conference at the Dunblane Hydro. Read

Bursaries to boost creativity

A UNIQUE opportunity to support theatre artists pursue their creative development has been announced by the Scottish Arts Council. Read

Aberfeldy bookshop wins national independent title

TOP author Alexander McCall Smith presented the UK Independent Bookseller of the Year award to Jayne and Kevin Ramage, owners of The Watermill Bookshop in Aberfeldy. Read

Review: Kungsbacka Piano Trio at Perth Art Gallery

As with the symphony Haydn is really the father of the piano trio and it was his final Piano Trio in E Flat HXV29 which started the concert. Violinist Malin Broman told the audience that Haydn is their favourite composer and that they were always ready to welcome the delights of a new trio of his to their repertoire. They had now reached 15 out of 43! They played the trio as a rather larger work than it is. He could hardly do other than put his genius into the work, but piano trios were basically a money making venture, which was why he sent this piece to be published in London from Vienna. The Kungsbacka launched the work with grandeur and invested perhaps slightly too much emotion into the slow movement, which Haydn marked “innocentamente”. However, it was interesting to hear the work this way, and they were at one with Haydn’s sense of humour in the spirited Presto Finale. Read

Blairgowrie concert

A CHARITY concert of traditional folk music is being held in Blairgowrie Town Hall on Saturday. Read

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