As of 30 October 2012, upcoming events include

2 Nov 8 pm Skerryvore – originally from the Isle of Tiree and now based in Glasgow, Skerryvore are favourites on the music festival circuit, feature in VisitScotland’s current TV ad and have thrilled audiences from Chicago to Shanghai. Lead singer Alec Dalglish won the Frankie Miller Songwriter of the Year award last year and the group was named Live Act of the Year in the 2011 Scots Trad Music Awards. Their sound has evolved in recent years but still maintains a strong ceilidh element. Tickets £15 are now online from WeGotTickets.com and TicketWeb.co.uk, including TicketWeb 24-hr hotline 08444 771000, also in person from June’s Card Shop Dingwall and from the Pavilion office in person or by ringing 01997 420124 (Mon to Fri 9 am to 6 pm).

www.skerryvore.com

3 & 4 Nov 10 am to 4 pm Exclusively Highlands “Meet the Makers” Fair.

Exclusively Highlands are known for organising and hosting artisan

art, craft and food events in beautiful and unique surroundings. Stallholders wishing to take part should ring Isabel Stewart on 01381 621962. Free entry for the public.

www.exclusivelyhighlands.co.uk

10 Nov 7.30 pm Caberfeidh Camanachd Club (Strathpeffer Shinty Club) annual dinner dance with music by Strathpeffer Dance Band. Tickets £20, including hot buffet, from Val MacGregor 01997 421283

http://caberfeidh.blogspot.co.uk/

15 Nov 8 pm Stu Brown Sextet. The Stu Brown Sextet was formed in 2008, to celebrate 100 years since the birth of the little known band leader, composer and inventor Raymond Scott, whose wacky, hyper-animated, eyeball-popping ‘cartoon jazz’ is most widely recognisable for its use in the Looney Tunes cartoons from the 1940s onwards and, more recently, in Ren and Stimpy and The Simpsons. Tickets £10 online from WeGotTickets.com and TicketWeb.co.uk, including TicketWeb 24-hr hotline 08444 771000, June’s Card Shop Dingwall and the Pavilion 01997 420124.

www.raymondscottproject.com

16 Nov 8 pm Salsa Celtica, whose synthesis of Scottish and Irish traditional

music with all the Latin American elements of salsa has taken them

and their music all over the world. The group has been a hit at all

major Celtic, jazz, world music and salsa festivals, as well as topping

the New York and LA salsa charts and European world music charts

and being nominated for folk music awards.

The lineup combines some of Scotland and Ireland’s most exciting

traditional musicians together with a stellar group of world, jazz

and salsa musicians from the UK and Latin America. Salsa Celtica

is a stunning combination of virtuosity and energy, making it one

of the most exciting groups on the world music circuit today.

A stunning marriage of musical styles … (The Scotsman)

…. not to be missed (LA Times)

This unique group is a dynamic force on the world music

scene (Songlines UK)

Tickets £15 are now available online from WeGotTickets.com and TicketWeb.co.uk, including TicketWeb 24-hr hotline 08444 771000, June’s Card Shop Dingwall and the Pavilion 01997 420124.

www.salsaceltica.com

22-25 Nov – Art Fair

The Pavilion’s spectacular annual Art Fair, organized by Friends of the Pavilion and typically showing nearly 400 original works by well over 100 artists working in the Highlands & Islands. All work for sale. NB: participation in this event is by invitation only – the Friends Art Fair committee now has over 350 artists on its list and cannot possibly include all of them every year. Opening times are:

Thursday 22 Nov 10 am to 8 pm

Friday 23 Nov 10 am to 8 pm

Saturday 24 Nov 10 am to 6 pm

Sunday 25 Nov 10 am to 2 pm

Entry is free, though there will be a small charge for the catalogue. There will also be a raffle and, as always, the Friends of the Pavilion will sell teas with their own delicious home baking during the day.

28 Nov 8 pm The Animals & Friends. Featuring John Steel and Mickey Gallagher from The Animals, plus Danny Handley (performed alongside Spencer Davies, Bobby Elliott and Rick Lee), and Pete Barton (The Mindbenders, Boomtown Rats). Plus very special guest Zoot Money.

The Animals & Friends remain a seminal rhythm & blues band who still command great respect internationally amongst their peers as well as from fans of all ages who instinctively respond so enthusiastically to such pivotal songs from The Animals’ catalogue such as ‘We Gotta Get Out of This Place’, ‘Boom Boom’, ‘Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood’, ‘Baby, Let Me Take You Home’, ‘I Put A Spell On You’ and the band’s multi-million selling anthem and no. 1 hit across the world – ‘House of The Rising Sun’.

“The band that shook the world back in 1964 have re-invented themselves …. quality and distinct sound that was, and still is, The Animals ….” (Barry Kirk, Romford Recorder). Tickets £15 are now available online from WeGotTickets.com and TicketWeb.co.uk, including TicketWeb 24-hr hotline 08444 771000, June’s Card Shop Dingwall and from the Pavilion 01997 420124

www.animalsandfriends.co.uk

http://zootmoney.org

1 Dec 7.30 pm Dingwall Choral Society and Invergordon Singers present Handel’s Messiah. More info soon.

www.dingwallchoralsociety.co.uk

14 Dec Showstopperz – another concert by the talented youngsters of the Inverness-based youth production group led by Gail and Reno Troilus. More info soon

15 Dec 8 pm Christmas Dance with music by members of Strathpeffer Dance Band and former members of the Sterling Showband. Tickets £18 (to include stovie supper) on sale soon.

Plus conferences, weddings, functions and other private events not included on this list

Strathpeffer Pavilion 01997 420124

www.StrathpefferPavilion.org

enquiries@StrathpefferPavilion.org

TicketWeb 24/7 ticket hotline: 08444 771000

Source: Strathpeffer Pavilion