For Argyll

On Saturday night - 29th November 2008 - Strachur, in East Loch Fyne hosted a night of traditional music in the Memorial Hall, with Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers. The band works to put a modern edge on Scottish…

[ March 28, 2009 to March 29, 2009. ]

On 28th and 29th March 2009, Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop is hosting a Residential Feis Weekend for teenagers from 12 - 17, at the Scout Centre in Lochgoilhead.

This is the first teenage Fèis in Cowal. As the…

[ February 6, 2009; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ]

At 7.00pm on 6th February 2009, Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop is hosting a traditional music concert at Strathlachlan Village Hall in Cowal.

At the end of a week long tour of Cowal and Argyll, the musicians involved in…

[ January 11, 2009; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ]

At 3.00pm on 11th January 2009, Lochgoilhead FIddle Workshop presents a tradional music concert at Lochgoilhead Village Hall.

For the last five years it has hosted a popular event with about 15 second year students from the Royal…

Beachwatch Bute’s island beach ranger, Sandra MacMillan, has removed 24 car tyres from the beach at Rhubodach on the Isle of Bute, where they had been dumped. The state of the tyres suggested that they had been cut from old…

[ November 26, 2008; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ]

Dunoon & Cowal Marketing Group’s (DCMG) have just announced their Annual Awards Ceremony and AGM and this year it looks like being a really spicey event. Not only are the Red Hot Chilli Pipers playing, but they’re also presenting…

Homecoming 2009, which will run from Burns Night to St Andrew’s Day wll see six events in Cowal funded by Argyll and Bute Council to a total of £34,000. The awards are:

• Cowalfest, £10,000
• Sandbank Community Development Trust, for a May celebration,…

Argyll’s - and Cowal’s - The Walking Theatre Company (TWTC) is one of only four businesses short-listed in the New Tourism Business Category at the Highlands and Islands Tourism Awards, to be held at the Drumossie Hotel, Inverness on Friday…

The annual festival of walking and the arts in Argyll’s Cowal Peninsula - Cowalfest, begins on 3rd October and runs until 12th October. The organisers point out that walking is healthy, cheap, exploratory, can be communal and is largely carbon…

[ September 26, 2008 to September 28, 2008. ]

The weekend from Friday 26th September onwards sees artists’ studios across the Cowal peninsula open to the public. This creates a rare opportunity to see artists working spaces and, of course, it also lets visitors see…