Events Around Fochabers

CAR BOOT Sale at INCHBERRY Hall on Sunday 25 AUGUST 2019, at Orton, Fochabers, Voted most popular in North Scotland. INCHBERRY & District Community Association IDCA volunteers run and organise Car Boot Sales at this lovely location on the last Sunday morning months of Mar - Sep. from 8.

The next Committee Meeting of INCHBERRY & District Community Association (IDCA) is on Monday Sept 2, 2019, @ 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.

The HIGHLANDERS Rally for BIKERS is taking place at INCHBERRY and District Community Hall and grounds over the weekend from noon Fri 6 September to noon Sunday 8 September 2019.

LINE DANCING – All are welcome to join the Line dancing Night on Friday 20 September 2019 in INCHBERRY HALL. Enjoy a fit and fun for all evening dancing with music and gently limber those body parts and socialise in INCHBERRY Hall with convivial company. ’Bring a Party to a Party’.

Moray Society Members and Elgin Museum Volunteers show off their artistic talents in a special art exhibition, to raise money for the museum. All kinds of crafts from embroidery to cut paper work, photography to glass work, will be on show and for sale.

Get into Moray’s buildings this September! Free entry to 18 venues throughout Moray on Saturday 21st Sep 2019. Doors Open Days is Scotland’s largest free festival that celebrates heritage and built environment, old and new. There are a few ways to find our full details of what’s on: 1.

Alecia Karr is back with us to bring you a fantastic night, featuring the hits old and new! This event is one of our favourites!

This is a ground-breaking collaboration with Glasgow’s Optimo Music and Brazilian dance collective 7OITO. Join Scottish Dance Theatre for an immersive ceilidh experience, inspired by both the culture of Scotland and the street festivals of Brazil.

The legendary, multi-award winning Old Blind Dogs bounded into their 25th anniversary year with a cracking new album Room with a View. With a line-up from the world of Scottish folk music that is approaching superstar status, the band creates a sound which stands at the forefront of the Scottish roots music revival.

Taking inspiration from their roots in the Irish and English traditions, Flook have an enviable trademark sound, weaving and spinning traditionally rooted tunes over precise acoustic grooves, with a rare blend of fiery technical brilliance, delicate ensemble interaction and a bold, adventurous musical imagination.

Making a hugely welcome return to the Universal Hall, Kakatsitsi have established themselves as one of the leading African drumming groups, renowned for the quality of their singing and their accessible, funky, danceable drumming grooves.

Nominated ‘Musician of the Year’ – BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2018 – Martin is known as a guitarist of formidable talent. Equally at home playing English traditional folk, American folk and blues and his own compositions, he is consistently named as one of the very finest fingerstyle guitar players in the world.

Wild things! is delighted to welcome eminent Scottish mycologist, Liz Holden, to lead us on a fascinating foray into the enigmatic world of fungi! Liz has well over 30 years experience in her field and Wild things!

Join us for a fascinating and enjoyable day learning all about our local Wild Foods. Discover the wonderful world of wild foods as we have some fun foraging in the forest. September is a great time to get out the basket and harvest some lovely wild edibles as the fungi, nuts and fruit are in abundance.

Brodie Castle is opening its doors for our Autumn Food and Craft Festival. Music and street food will surround the stables in the grounds to the side of the Castle. The Castle itself and stables will play host to an array of wonderful foods and unique crafts all lovingly handmade in Scotland.

FAKE BUT FAB is IN-Tune INverurie’s Tribute Band’s day! Relive your 80’s and 90’s this September when the best tribute bands in the country gather to give you a performance of a lifetime.

Film-Director, author and lead singer of acclaimed Punk band The Skids, Richard Jobsonpresents ‘A Night of Songs’, where he will be sharing ihs illustrious, yet often challenging, life story alongside musical interludes.

The past will come alive at Braemar Castle. Ever fancied an encounter with Queen Victoria or how about Robert Louis Stevenson? You’re invited to Shake Hands with History and get up close and personal with the colourful characters who have lived in or are associated with the historic building.

Exclusively Highlands is at Drum Castle for Drum’s Food and Craft Festival with more exhibitors than ever before as we combine the festival within the Castle, Brewhouse and Courtyard.

CLAN Walk at Crathes Castle Sunday 1st September Gather your friends, family or colleagues and take on one of our sponsored walks. With routes ranging from a challenging 15 miles to a family-friendly 3 miles, there’s 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).

Aberdeen Art Fair 2019 in association with TAQA To celebrate the events return to the Music Hall, following its three year closure and nine million pound revamp, entrance to the ninth AAF will be free starting with Friday Evening from 6pm-9pm followed by FREE entry on the Saturday and Sunday.

Battles, kidnappings and a martyred monk – these stories all took place along the old road into Aberdeen. But the road has also been the focus of more uplifting incidents, from tales of drinking to struggles for equality.

Aberdeen scientists are responsible for an array of world-changing discoveries, from finding the cure to diabetes to the equation behind mobile phones. But what of the people behind these technological developments?

In his hilarious, daring new show ‘Blah Blah Blacklist’ Daliso looks at disgraced blacklisted celebrities and historical figures we’re ashamed we once admired and who now have let us down.