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Wednesday, 18 March at 7.30 pm Diciadain, 18 Am Màrt aig 7.30f Sabhal Mòr Ostaig (TDC main hall) Skye
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Tuesday, 31 March at 2 pm Dimàirt 31 Am Màrt aig 2f
Wednesday, 8 April at 2 pm Diciadain 8 An Giblean aig 2 f
‘Jabberwocky’ Young Persons’ Theatre
‘Little Frankenstein’ Children’s Theatre
The Puppet Animation Festival comes to Skye
Puppet Animation Festival
Special performance for Bun-sgoil Shlèite, but all welcome
Semi-famous puppeteer Frank Stein is busy rehearsing his new show ‘George the Dragon Slayer’. He’ll never be really famous because his puppets keep falling apart! Taking inspiration from the scientist Doctor Frankenstein, and with the help of the audience he creates a new real live puppet that is destined to change his life forever!
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig (TDC main hall) Skye
Ages: 5+ and all adults who won’t be scared.
Tuesday, 31 March at 7.30 pm Dimàirt 31 Am Màrt aig 7.30f
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig (An Talla Mòr) Skye Pròiseact nan Ealan ~ The Gaelic Arts Agency ‘Sequamur’ is performed in Gaelic with live simultaneous translation to English via headphones. ‘Sequamur’ a multimedia Gaelic language play by DS Murray reflecting on the life of Lewis educationalist William Gibson and his inspirational leadership which led many young Hebridean men to leave the classroom and go to war in 1914. The play is based on factual material and integrates a new music and soundscape commission with experimental film projections evoking battlescenes and the reflections of the soldiers as their stories are brought back to Gibson their teacher. A localised WWI commemorative roll of honour with the names of the fallen soldiers from each region the play visits will be screened following the performance. Writen by Donald S Murray and directed by Iain Macrae, with Daibhidh Walker, Angus Peter Campbell, Iain Beggs, Sean Macleod and Donna Morrison and music by Andrew Yearly. Adult £10, Student £7, Young People 7, Under 10s Free
Thursday, 19 March at 7.30 pm Diardaoin 19 Am Màrt aig 7.30f
Traditional Music, Scots and Gaelic Song Christine Primrose, Arthur Cormack, Blair Douglas, Billy Ross, Iain Smith and Decker Forrest We launch the 2015 season of Easter and Summer Tuesday traditional concerts with a great line-up of wellknown performers. Adult £12, Student £10, Young People 5, Under 10s Free
Wednesday, 1 April at 7.30 pm Diciadain 1 An Giblean aig 7.30 f
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig (TDC main hall) Skye
‘The Straw Chair’ Borderline Theatre Sue Glover’s internationally renowned play of profound power, about liberty and love, both lost and discovered, in the unlikeliest of 18th century settings. Seventeen-year-old Isabel and her minister husband Aeneas arrive from Edinburgh onto the remote island of Hirta (St. Kilda) to spread the gospel in the Gaelic speaking North. Their stormy start to marriage worsens as they encounter the extraordinary Lady Grange, who’s tortured by a life of abduction and banishment. “A beguiling evocation, as light and sharp as spindrift, of the strange life on the island.” - Scotland on Sunday
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, An Talla Mòr The Sabhal Mòr Ostaig traditional music students with Blair and Cèitidh Douglas Adult £10, Student £5, Young People 5, Under 10s Free
Saturday, 28 March at 7.30 pm Disathairne 28 Am Màrt aig 7.30f
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig (An Talla Mòr) Skye
Skye and Lochalsh Orchestra With the Skye and Lochalsh Schools Orchestra Stravinsky’s ‘Firebird Suite’ ‘The Blue Danube’ Handel’s ‘Water Music’ Two Dances ‘The Bartered Bride’ Fauré’s ‘Pavane’ Op 50 Haydn’s ‘Surprise Symphony’. SLO is an amateur orchestra, conducted by Iain Roden, the members of which reside on the Isle of Skye and its mainland neighbour, Lochalsh. The Skye & Lochalsh Schools’ Orchestra is drawn from the area’s primary and secondary schools, and some of these talented young players also play in the main orchestra. Adult £8, Student £4, Young People 4, Under 10s Free
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March and April 2015 Am Màrt ‘s An Giblean 2015
Directed by Scottish Theatre Director Liz Carruthers, who recently spent a year at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig as a mature student. With Selina Boyack, Pamela Reid, Ceit Kearney and Martin McBride Adult £12, Student £10, Young People 5, Under 10s Free
Thursday, 2 April at 9 pm Diardaoin 2 An Giblean aig 9f
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig (An Talla Mòr) Skye
Cèilidh Dance with the Blair Douglas Dand
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig (TDC main hall) Skye
A gentle horror for little horrors! A treat not to be missed! The show lasts 55 minutes and will tickle the imagination of everyone from 5 to 105 years old. The Puppet Animation Festival is the UK’s largest performing arts event for children, held in venues across Scotland in April. Adult £5, Student £5, Young People 3, Under 10s Free
Thursday, 9 April at 9 pm Diardaoin 9 An Giblean aig 9f
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig (An Talla Mòr) Skye
Cèilidh Dance with the Blair Douglas Dand - free Friday, 10 April at 8 pm Dihaoine 10 An Giblean aig 8f
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig (TDC main hall) Skye
Rhona Colwell and Welsh opera students Opera and popular classics from the singers of the The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Rhona was brought up on the Isle of Skye where her initial experience in singing came from performing traditional Gaelic songs. This led to private singing lessons with Ann Lampard, OBE, then Head of Voice at the Junior Academy of Music in London and who has since moved to Skye. Rhona and her husband Tom Colwell have moved from Skye to Wales so that Rhona can study at the RWCMD. She is joined by nine other student singers and a pianist, who will perform a variety of opera/musical theatre, solo and group items, from their German, Italian and French and British song repertoire. Adult £10, Student £8, Young People 5, Under 10s Free
Come along and join in a free Cèilidh dance, organised by Sabhal Mòr Ostaig’s Short Courses. Sit and enjoy the informal atmosphere or get up and dance - just go with the flow! Late Bar. All welcome.
Sunday, 12 April at 3 pm Là na Sabaid, 12 An Giblean aig 3f
Tuesday, 7 April at 7.30 pm Dimàirt 7 An Giblean aig 7.30f
Cape Breton to Skye in concert
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig (An Talla Mòr) Skye
Traditional Music Concert Gabe McVarish, Mairearad Green and Anna Massie with Sophie Sophabulous
An Talla Mòr - to be confirmed
Pipes, fiddle, step-dance, song and a cup of tea Ben Miller plays Scottish smallpipes and Border pipes and brings his Spring tour,to Skye along with Cape Breton fiddle player/step-dancer/ Gaelic Singer, Anita MacDonald, and Scottish multi-instrumentalist, Ciaràn Ryan. Pour the tea and hear some great traditional music. Adult £10, Student £8, Young People 5, Under 10s Free
Thursday, 16 April, 2015 at 7.30 pm Diardaoin 16 An Giblean aig 7.30f Sabhal Mòr Ostaig (An Talla Mòr) Skye Gabe McVarish, fiddle, has played and recorded with a rich diversity of bands. Sophie will join him for some stunning steps. Anna Massie and Mairearad Green are a captivating duo. Providing a highly energetic performance with a warm and friendly stage presence, this duo will engage any audience. Individually, they perform with The Poozies, Blazin Fiddles, Karen Matheson, Box Club, Eddi Reader and Karine Polwart, and together in Scotland’s one and only Celtic Big Band, The Unusual Suspects. A great night’s entertainment on fiddle, accordion, guitar, pipes, banjo and feet - as well as some good craic. **** “...the camaraderie and sheer fun of musical collaboration is plainly evident and infectious.” Adult £12, Student £10, Young People 5, Under 10s Free
‘Rura’ on their ‘Despite the Dark’ Tour Rugged yet disciplined, heartfelt whilst rousing and anthemic, refreshingly contemporary but rooted in tradition… Rura are a band inarguably at the forefront of Scottish folk. Internationally renowned for their punch-packing mix of highland pipes, whistle, flute, fiddle, bodhran, guitar and voice, Rura is one of the most exciting bands of the generation. “Scotland’s hottest folk prospects” The Scotsman Adult £12, Student £5, Young People 5, Under 10s Free
