Strathpeffer Pavilion are pleased to announce the following events programme:

The Strathpeffer Pavilion Association AGM is on Wednesday 23 May at 7 pm. Members of the Association should have received official notification but anyone interested in the Pavilion is welcome to attend.

Saturday 26 May at 8 pm, Showaddywaddy – one of the top groups of the 70s and still going strong – they sold out last time and it really was a fun night, you can’t help singing along (and dancing) to their songs! There is likely to be only limited seating at this event. Tickets £17.50 / £16.50 / £6 (school pupils), from all the usual outlets

“Usual outlets” are: online from WeGotTickets.com and TicketWeb.co.uk, TicketWeb’s 24-hour hotline 08444 771000, June’s Card Shop in Dingwall High Street and of course the Pavilion office in person or by ringing 01997 420124 (9 to 6 Monday to Friday).

Friday 1 June at 8 pm, Scottish folk rock band Cal, whose lead singer Michael Callaghan was at one stage shortlisted to replace Donnie Munro with Runrig. This is a standing event and all tickets are £12 from usual outlets

Sunday 3 June from noon to 4 pm, Strathpeffer community Diamond Jubilee Picnic and related events in the Pavilion Gardens (indoors if wet) – bring your own picnic, hot and cold drinks on sale. We’re told that more details of this will be posted on notices around the village nearer the time.

On Friday 8 June at 8 pm, they are delighted to welcome back the brilliant Scottish Ensemble, with a programme of French and Scottish music to celebrate the Auld Alliance – and with Welsh harpist Catrin Finch continuing the Celtic connection! Tickets £10 for all adults, £5 for school pupils, from usual outlets.

Saturday 9 June will be Strathpeffer’s famous Victorian Market from 12 noon to 4 pm, with stalls in the Square and events throughout the village (watch for the official programme, due out soon). Friends of the Pavilion, in conjunction with the Church of Scotland, will be selling teas in the main hall of the Pavilion and are arranging an exhibition of historic photos in the veranda (for which there will be a small charge, payable on the door).

That night, Saturday 9 June, from 8.30 till midnight, the Victorian Strathpeffer Committee are holding a ceilidh in the Pavilion, with local band Highland Ceilidh – talented young musicians, including our good friend Fiona Dalgety of Feis Rois on fiddle and calling the dances. All tickets for this are £8 – there aren’t yet have tickets at the Pavilion but they are available from online ticket sellers WeGotTickets.com and TicketWeb.co.uk. Victorian Strathpeffer plan to put them on sale at various Strathpeffer outlets and the Sports & Model Shop in Dingwall.

They have just been given tickets to sell at the Pavilion for Strathpeffer Golf Club’s fundraising dance  from 8.30 pm to midnight on Saturday 16 June, with Inverness cover band Rant. Tickets are £10 and they are also available from the Golf Club, who are arranging a return bus service on the night from Conon Bridge via Dingwall and Maryburgh at a cost of £3.

Full details of the above and other events are on thewebsite page www.strathpefferpavilion.org/whats-on.asp, including the following new events for which tickets have just gone on sale:

Thursday 21 June at 8 pm concert by students of the Plockton Music School

Friday 20 July at 8 pm – the wonderful Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Wednesday 25 July at 8 pm – the Tannahill Weavers

Thursday 2 August at 8 pm – Strangebird Zirkus in “Ornithology”

Saturday 29 September at 8 pm – top rhythm & blues band Dr. Feelgood

Source: Strathpeffer Pavillion