Originally conceived as filling a hole in Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall’s schedule in the dark wet days of January, this key winter music festival has grown in size and stature to become a world-wide draw for Glasgow.
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The second eatBute food festival runs from 11th – 13th September 2009. Last year’s festival was in May but there is a logic in eatBute 09 running in September alongside Scottish Food Fortnight (5th-20th September).
The main business of the event, at the magnificent Mount Stuart, is naturally a two-day farmers’ and craft market.
There are a range of ancillary activities, most linked to the edible heart of the matter – like cookery demonstrations, a series of ‘interactive lectures’ (does this mean you can talk to them?) by guest chefs and ‘Slow Food’ evangelists and a Sunday lunch banquet.
A ceilidh on the Sunday night will bring the 2009 festival to an end.
The Buteman has all the latest programme details, raising the question of why the event’s own website is still stick on 2008 and makes no reference to 2009.
The satellite image of Bute, above, looks like the invitation to ‘eat Bute’ is actually in progress. The image is reproduced here under the Creative Commons licence.
Henri Macaulay is delighted with the response to the monthly weekend Gaelic classes he’s running on the Isle of Gigha. The second one finsihed last weekend, with the same successful tutor as the first one – Ciomhin Rodgers – and with another great ceilidh at the end.
Henri’s emails are so tantalisingly scattered with Gaeic phrases that his pupil list may be expanded sometime soon.
The classes are for beginners and better and they’re open to anyone. The ferry from Tayinloan at the north end of the Kintyre leninsula to Ardminish on Gigha takes about 20 minutes or less and the weekend sessions are becoming something of a legend.
Mull Gaelic Choir present a Family Ceilidh at 7.30pm at Aros Hall in Tobermory on 26th August.
There’s a ceilidh on Iona at 7.30pm on 17th July. More details to follow.
Mull Gaelic Choir present a Family Ceilidh at 7.30pm at Aros Hall in Tobermory on 17th June.
Mull Gaelic Choir presents a Family Ceilidh at 7.30pm at Aros Hall in Tobermory, Mull on 29th May.
Mull Gaelic Choir is presenting a Family Ceilidh at 7.30pm at Aros Hall in Tobermory on 8th April.
This weekend – February 28th and March 1st – is the second of Henri Macauley’s Gaelic language sessions held on Gigha. Following the success of the last series, Henri is taking another sequence of Gaelic classes for beginners and improvers.
The classes run over four weekends – each the last in the month – starting at the end of January and running through February, March and April.
The classes are famously fun and conversational – and since you’re on Gigha and it’s the weekend, prepare to enjoy the ceilidh on Sunday nights.
You don’t have to live on Gigha to come there and start on the language of Earra Gaidheal. The Gigha Hotel is offering a special deal for the weekends of the Gaelic courses. Get information on the Gigha website or phone: 01583 505 101 for more details.
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