What's On and Things To Do Around Blairgowrie

CAPLET Suite Persane [Persian Suite] IBERT Trois Pièces en Trio FAURÉ Music from Dolly Suite MENDELSSOHN arr TARKMANN Music from A Midsummer Night’s Dream SCO Winds Soloists The alluring perfumes of France pervade this captivating concert from the SCO’s celebrated wind ensemble – from the exotic, sensual,

Following last year’s sell-out Saturday meeting, Perth Racecourse is delighted to add an additional weekend fixture to this seasons’ racing calander.

Run, jog or walk. Raise £200 or £10. THIS IS BEATING CANCER. Sign up for Race for Life RIGHT NOW. Race for Life brings millions of women together to support Cancer Research UK’s life-saving research. Just by signing up you’ll make a difference and whether you raise £10 or £200, every penny matters.

Big Kid Circus returns with an all new show, in the year we celebrate 250 years since the creation of the modern circus. To mark this event we introduce great new ground and aerial artists from England, Ukraine, Cuba and an hilarious new Clown Papeluxo from Chile.

That’s right, The Gin Fayre is on tour and we’re coming to a town you! The Gin Fayre brings you a wide variety of gins from across Scotland, the rest of the UK and indeed, the rest of the world under one roof.

Grandslam 2018: Summer of Steps Tour plus Blue & Saara Aalto. Artists performing: Steps, Blue, Saara Aalto.: Tickets avaiable.

Uncork the champagne! Dress to kill! Party like there’s no tomorrow! Celebrating 20 diamante decorated years, The Lady Boys of Bangkok ‘Wonder Women’ Tour will take the UK’s number one cabaret show to a new level.

There is no greater comeback than Steps! The iconic pop group have returned to claim their pop crown! Their Summer of Steps 2018 Tour will include a concert at Slessor Gardens, Dundee with special guests Aqua and Blue.

Big Kid Circus returns with an all new show, in the year we celebrate 250 years since the creation of the modern circus. To mark this event we introduce great new ground and aerial artists from England, Ukraine, Cuba and an hilarious new Clown Papeluxo from Chile.

Voted UK’s Best Country Artist & also Band Winners 2016, 2017 & 2018. This will be an amazing night of country music from this Big Band. Guitar playing like you’ve never heard here before. Fabulous songs and brilliant musicians. Gary and The Breeze are widely acknowledge as the Best Country Music Band in the UK.

Visit the Workshop on Kincaple Farm, to see the latest work from Birkhill artist and pyrographer Gail Duncan and lovely new items of furniture crafted from local hardwoods by Jim Brown

Antique, Collectors and Vintage Fair. Over 20 stalls selling collectable china, furniture, postcards, records, toys, jewellery, linen, vintage clothes and furnishing. Cafe on site open all day selling homemade soup, rolls and cakes. Admission £1, concessions 75p and children (under 16) free.

Re-live the sounds of the swinging sixties, as Britain’s No. 1 tribute show brings alive the magic of the sixties with their tribute to over twenty five bands of that era.

Alastair continues his Aberdeenshire tour with 2 performances alongside Euan Drysdale on guitar/piano. Featuring music by Niel Gow, James Scott Skinner, Alastair’s own compositions and a unique tribute to his fellow Ayrshireman Rabbie Burns.

Big Kid Circus returns with an all new show, in the year we celebrate 250 years since the creation of the modern circus. To mark this event we introduce great new ground and aerial artists from England, Ukraine, Cuba and an hilarious new Clown Papeluxo from Chile.

Distance 3.5km Climb 250m Registration/Start at Braemar Castle Light refreshments available post race. The history books have Creag Choinnich as the oldest recorded hill race dating back to 1064. Yes 1064!

The Balmoral Challenge 2018, presented by our good friends at Artemis, is a unique event for your team of four to meet, be inspired by and walk with our wounded beneficiaries from across Scotland over one of three beautifully challenging routes, starting and finishing in front of Her Majesty The Queen’s Scottish

Alastair is joined by Euan Drysdale on guitar/piano for an afternoon performance in Ballater to complete his Aberdeenshire tour. Featuring melodies by Niel Gow, James Scott Skinner, Alastair’s own compositions and a unique tribute to his fellow Ayrshireman Rabbie Burns.

A fun evening with renowned musician, Richard Michael, at the Piano supported by The McWhinnie Family plus 1.

Race for Life Pretty Muddy is Cancer Research UK’s brilliant 5k muddy obstacle course. Scramble over the A-frame. Crawl through the mud pit. Have fun with your friends. And raise valuable funds for BEATING CANCER.

Race for Life Pretty Muddy Kids is Cancer Research UK’s brilliant muddy obstacle course just for the little ones. They can take on the obstacles, crawl through the mud pit and have fun with friends, all the while helping raise valuable funds for BEATING CANCER.

Race for Life brings thousands of women together to support Cancer Research UK’s life-saving research into all 200 types of cancer. Sign up or help us spread the word. This is a 5k suitable for all abilities. This is thousands of women uniting with one purpose. Walk, jog or run. Raise valuable funds for research.

Race for Life brings thousands of women together to support Cancer Research UK’s life-saving research into all 200 types of cancer. 10k is a great step up from our 5k events. Up the challenge and take part in a Race for Life 10k event. Walk, jog or run. Raise valuable funds for research.

Crail Festival 2018 18-28 July.Wonderful music underpins an extensive , exciting ’family friendly’ programme: Rose Room( superb swing and Gypsy jazz ensemble); Bogna Forkiewicz(Polish Soprano); Emily Maguire (Singer/songwriter); Robbie Greig and Friends(wonderful Folk music): the Blueswater Band( Chicago...

Alastair Savage is originally from Ayrshire and has performed traditional and classical music throughout his life.

Special offer - 2 for 1 on any seat any day! Simply call the box office – 020 3375 3970 and quote ’Juggler’ to receive the deal. The UK will play host to one of the most spectacular circus displays in the world when the Moscow State Circus returns.

Scotland’s Favourite Zippos Circus is back on the road in 2018 with a nationwide Big Top tour – ‘LEGACY’ - celebrating the 250th anniversary of circus entertainment.

Edinburgh Speed Dating How speed dating in Edinburgh works A great event to go to is Speed Dating in Edinburgh. How it works is our friendly professional hosts will greet you and they will settle you in by briefly explaining the format of the Speed Dating evening.

Written by Natalie MacKinnon Directed by Ellen Shand Lucy is used to feeling alone. She’s got hardly any friends. Even her big sister ignores her. But Lucy has made some new friends.

Written by Sam Siggs Directed by Adam Rosa In the woods outside the nowhere town of Midvale stands an abandoned house with scorched rooms and boarded windows. Long ago something terrible happened there, or so the stories go. But is there really any truth to the myths?

The annual Scottish Storytelling Forum Development Day will focus on the role of storytelling within education and youth development. The magic of stories and storytelling have the power to bring a curriculum to life, enabling vivid and embodied learning and understanding across multiple subject areas.

Written by Tim Primrose Directed by Catherine Ward-Stoddart Colossal CAVERNS! Dastardly DUNGEONS!! Terrible TROGLODYTES!!! Giant MUTANT spiders!!!! Also, some HUMMUS!!!!! Can our INTREPID HEROES escape the fantastical UNDERGROUND CITY of TROGLODOPOLIS… alive???

The second in our ’Reconstructed’ series celebrates the work of Yusaf Islam, commonly known by his former stage-name, Cat Stevens. Father and Son, How Can I Tell You, The Wind and more.

Dowally’s brand new album Somewhere tells a tale of music from wild, rolling places. Tonight sees the album being officially launched and audience members can anticipate an exciting, energetic performance from a trio whose expression and style has been described as ’something special – one of the big surprises...

The role of the storyteller in the culture of Chuck Warren’s ancestors in the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians was an important one. The storyteller was a wanderer, they would carry news, and provide a means for personal communication between relatives.

To be alive is to be in perpetual change: growing, healing, learning, aging. For this exhibition, award-winning writer and doctor Gavin Francis will consider in words and iconic images some of the changes that occur across the arc of human life: from the dynamism of biochemistry that sustains life to the...

Join Eric Brennan and a host of fluffy creatures on a fun filled trip to meet lots of favourite nursery rhyme characters. Interactive songs and rhymes guaranteed to make you smile.

Miagete Goran the swan of heaven is soaring down the Milky Way through our summer nights. She tells the most famous story of love in the stars celebrated every July in Eastern Asia when the weaving princess (Vega) and her husband the cowherd boy (Altair) consummate their marriage – on the bridge of the swan’s tail...

The wonderful apprentice storytellers present tales of the environment, from a feminist perspective to climate change. Come and be enchanted.

My City is a project by Imaginate and Multi-Cultural Family Base bringing together artists Victoria Beesley, Yvonne Buskie and Arran Howie with refugee families in Edinburgh.

A summer season of traditional tales from Scotland and further afield. Hear the truths, myths and legends of folklore, past and present from Beverley Casebow & Anne Hunter. Authentic entertainment and insight, all in one hour! For details on each session, please check our website.

Step into the rich, green, growin landscape o scots pine, birch, oak, aspen, juniper. Where humans’ mark is gentled, their words and deeds a forgotten sigh and ancient wisdom speaks clearly to those who listen. Come, discover, enjoy the stories with storyteller Grace Banks.

A summer season of traditional tales from Scotland and further afield. Hear the truths, myths and legends of folklore, past and present from Joshua Bryant & Daiva Ivanauskaite. Authentic entertainment and insight, all in one hour! For details on each session, please check our website.

THIS IS THE RESCHEDULED CONCERT FROM FRIDAY 2nd MARCH WHICH WAS POSTPONED DUE TO THE WEATHER. Britain’s busiest Chamber Ensembles venture to St Giles’ Cathedral with an evening packed full of Baroque favourites.

Run, jog or walk. Raise £200 or £10. THIS IS BEATING CANCER. Sign up for Race for Life RIGHT NOW. Race for Life brings millions of women together to support Cancer Research UK’s life-saving research. Just by signing up you’ll make a difference and whether you raise £10 or £200, every penny matters.

Zucchero - Wanted World Tour 2018 Plus support. Artists performing: Zucchero.: Tickets avaiable.

Information Lecture: Help and Healing on the Spiritual Path through the teaching of Bruno Groening A lecture about spiritual healing and help through the teaching of Bruno Groening.

Alastair Savage is originally from Ayrshire and has performed traditional and classical music throughout his life.

The finest Arts Craft & Foods and this year music come to Crathes Castle for our Summer at Crathes Fair. Throughout the first two floors of the Castle, the Horsemill, and in the Courtyard this really is an event not to be missed.