The Orca Hotel, Stromness, Orkney, 24 January 2006

Celtic Connections, Glasgow, January 2006

Royal Concert Hall and Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow, 14 January 2006

Piping Centre, Glasgow, 19 January 2006

Celtic Connections, Glasgow, January 2006

2006 is the year of willow as the Brahan Estate near Dingwall hosts the Big Willow event and a new exhibition of innovative basketmaking opens in Inverness.

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies LAURENCE STERNE’S freewheeling 18th century novel ‘The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman’ is rightly considered to be unfilmable. It is a tale marked more by diversions and distractions than any sense of linear progression. In trying to recount the story of his life, Shandy can never quite advance […]

Orkney Museum, Tankerness House, until 21 January 2006

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies ARTHUR GOLDEN’S ‘Memoirs Of A Geisha’ became one of those rare international bestsellers that everyone was talking about. Everyone also thought it might make a terrific film. The big screen version is finally with us and is certainly a visual feast with the kind of vibrant, breathtaking imagery that deserves […]

ROB ADAMS catches up with pianist and composer JAMES ROSS ahead of the pianist’s concert at Celtic Connections