A special Loch Shiel Festival version of Copland’s Pulitzer Prize winning “Appalachian Spring” precedes Stravinsky’s topical take on the Faustian fable.

OneTouch Theatre, Eden Court, Inverness, 3 May 2011.

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) announces the appointment of Michael Elliott as its new Chief Executive.

Lau return to the Stables in Cromarty on Sunday May 15th at 7.30pm.

LeisureFayre, Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall, Orkney. 29 April, 2011.

Over the past year HI~Arts (the arts development agency for the Highlands and Islands) has been working with a number of outstanding songwriters, to promote their unique craft and record some of their original material. An industry sampler CD, the MIDAS Highland Songwriters Showcase, has just been completed and features twelve tracks from some of the most talented individuals in the Scottish Highlands. To mark the end of the project and the completion of the recording sessions, HI~Arts is hosting a third Songwriters Showcase gig at the Ironworks Room 2 on Sunday May 15th, with a line-up of some of the artists featured on the CD.

SUE WILSON hears how fiddler Duncan Chisholm is stepping into a new part of his creative life with his Highlands & Islands tour this month.

KATIE LAING caught up with Alyth McCormack ahead of her return to her native Lewis.

The Highland Chamber Orchestra will take audiences on a European Grand Tour in concerts in Ullapool and Dornoch this month.

Sounding the Stones with International Musician and Storyteller Bob Pegg is taking place on the 14th & 15th May 2011 at Kilmartin House Museum in Argyll.