Events Around Aberdeen

Since 2010, Aberdeen has been making a name for itself as destination for craft beer lovers. On this small-group tour you’ll find out why that is, as we take you to four city centre pubs, linked to three independent craft breweries.

Learn about Aberdeen’s history and colourful characters, from pirates to Lord Byron, in this free walking tour. Interested in learning more about Aberdeen? In this tour we cover Aberdeen’s social history, its quirky inhabitants and how it got to where it is today.

Prepare for Mayhem as the University of Aberdeen’s May Festival returns for its seventh year! Offering a fun and inspiring programme of events to keep visitors of all ages entertained, there is something for everyone.

For over five hundred years, Old Aberdeen has been one of the great centres of learning in the North of Scotland. There can be no better place to celebrate Aberdeen’s greatest thinkers, scientists, explorers, inventors, writers and gardeners (yes, we do mean gardeners).

Calling all adventure lovers! The award winning Kendal Mountain Festival is back on the road with its UK Tour. Join us for an evening packed full of amazing films and awe-inspiring talks from some of the world’s most impressive adventurers.

Giuseppe Verdi’s dramatic retelling of the Shakespeare Tragedy returns to its home turf as Tayside Opera brings its 2019 Macbeth Tour to Birnam, Brechin & St Andrews and Dundee.

Promoting traditional Scottish music, Angus Strathspey & Reel Society will be holding their annual Fiddlers’ Rally. Players from other societies from across Scotland will be joining the orchestra for this event for a performance concert.

Thistle Ceilidh Band in The Lochlands Bar lounge every Thursday night.

From caber tossing to equestrian stunt riders, Gordon Setter gatherings to chainsaw displays; the Gordon Castle Highland Games and Country Fair returns on Sunday 19th May 2019 with an eclectic mix of entertainment for all the family.

CAR BOOT Sale at INCHBERRY Hall on Sunday 28 APRIL 2019. Voted best venue in N Scotland, a lovely location on the last Sunday morning of the month from 8.30am to 1pm in summer months: Mar - Sep. Come along and enjoy the morning with friends, enjoy the venue.

The next Committee Meeting of INCHBERRY & District Community Association (IDCA) is on Monday, April 29, @ 7.30pm [Seven-thirty pm] in INCHBERRY Hall, foyer. All Committee members will be welcome to attend and contribute to the IDCA agenda to ensure we provide what the INCHBERRY Community wants.

All are welcome to join in on Friday 17 May 2019 to relax with some smooth exercise of those limbs. All are welcome to join in line dancing in Inchberry & District Community Association (IDCA) Hall.

Solve a whodunnit over a 3-course dinner in the Castle Dining Room. There’s something not quite right at the castle… and we’ve recruited YOU to help us work it out! Join us for a three course meal and an evening of entertainment. Fundraising for the castle restoration.

A Cheese and Wine open evening at Elgin Museum. A chance to speak to the volunteers who work there and see around the museum. Some little seen artefacts from the stores will be on display.

A perfect opportunity to come along, meet the team, enjoy a fizz and sample Chef’s tasty canapés, while we show you how we can help to make your day that special one!

A cat-astrophe of epic proportions has occurred at Dundee Science Centre – someone’s stolen our favourite furry mascot! Can you help us solve the crime, and figure out who the cat-burglar really is? Head on down to “The Purr-fect Crime” and see how forensic scientists collect evidence at a crime scene!

50 Miles. 2 Days, On Foot - do something epic to support people with a brain tumour. Follow the Seagulls is a long distance charity walk to help people beat brain cancer.

The Visiting Medium will be the Amazing Ada Donaldson from Angels Gateway Spiritualist Church in Bilston,Midlothian hope you can make it along to see Spirit & Ada working together starts at 7:30pm till 8:30pm Donation at the Door & Raffle Tea/ Coffee & cake afterwards 50p stay for a bleather....................

Little Top at Forres Town Hall Presented by Starcatchers and SUPERFAN, Little Top is a magical first circus experience for babies aged 0-18 months and their adults.

Written and acted by Matthew Zajac, and based on the life of his father, this extraordinary play tells the story of the tailor’s life and his son’s discoveries about his father using music, poetry, storytelling, and video projection.

Singer-songwriter Adam Ross is the prolific mastermind behind the music of Randolph’s Leap. Hailing from Nairn, he has been steadily building up an eclectic back-catalogue of uplifting folk-pop - a mixture of solo home recordings and full-band studio epics.

Multi-award winning songwriter and musician, theatre maker and published writer Karine Polwart is a six-time winner at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, including 2018 Folk Singer of the Year.

Rant is the meeting of 4 of Scotland’s finest fiddle players, two from the Shetland Islands and two from the Highlands. Nominated in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2014 for Best Traditional track, they tour their unique brand of ‘chamber-folk’ far and wide.

A traditional agricultural Show with a twist! Come for a great family day out and see showing classes for cattle, sheep, horses, poultry & dogs and pets as well as trade stands covering everything from agricultural machinery to flowers & plants.