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Caithness Music Festival On Song!

Reporter - Noel Donaldson CAITHNESS Music Festival celebrates its 56th birthday next month and is very much on song.   There are 242 classes reflecting a wide range of vocal solos, verse speaking, choirs and instrumental performances in the festival, which opens on June 7 and runs for five days.  

MR. DARWIN'S TREE

Darwin "...the show's 75-minute bravura performace by solo actor Andrew Harrison, works hard to uncover Darwin's soul-searching over his loss of faith and "the terrible void" he feared it could create between him and Emma, his devout Christian wife." Lindsay Shaw, freelance writer and editor.November 9, 2009 Premier at Westmister Abbey.   'Mr.  

THE SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

NHC is delighted to present this return visit of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra to Thurso,working with Thurso Live Music Association.   The Orchestra has enjoyed an enormously successful year- winning BBC Music Magazine CD of the Year and a Classical BRIT Award for its recording of Mozart's last four symphonies with Sir Charles Mackerras; making the first multi-date tour of India by a western orchestra; and enjoying our first Season concerts with new Principal Conductor - a brilliant young Londoner, Robin Ticciati.  

Celebrating The Mod 2010 With CD's

A growing series of CD's will shortly be available to borrow from libraries in both Wick and Thurso.   The project - MusicMemory Store - will feature people with local connections and raise the profile of the value of traditional and Gaelic music within the community and its relationship to the National M�d 2010 which is being hosted in Caithness for the very first time from 8th to 16th October.  

Creative Scotland CEO announces �500k boost for Highland arts programme

Andrew Dixon, Chief Executive Designate of Creative Scotland, has today announced that music, dance, literature and drama are among six creative disciplines to benefit from �500,000 funding this year for their development in the Highlands.  Crafts and visual arts are also in line for a share of the support recommended by the Highland Cultural Strategic Board.  

"Disability Pursuits"

By Lydia Popowich An interactive visual arts exhibition about different ways of seeing the world Preview: Friday 4th June 6.00 - 8.00pm Exhibition Dates: 5th June - 25th July 2010 Caithness Horizons, Old Town Hall, Thurso, Caithness.  Tel: 01847 896508 Opening Times: Mon-Sat 10am to 6pm Sunday 11am to 4pm For information on Disability Arts and free workshops contact Lydia Popowich on 01593 721335 or 07777601938 skidlyd[AT]btinternet.com Website: www.LyPopDesigns.co.uk With sponsorship from Caithness Business:- Murray Anderson Flooring, Green and Cameron Building Contractor, Norscot Joinery.  

The Jacks At Lybster

In aid of Lybster Football Club.  

Local Heroes At Caithness Horizons

Caithness Horizons Also See BBC Four Wednesday 7th April, 21:00 on BBC Four Jocelyn Bell Burnell 1/3.  Jocelyn Bell Burnell talks about her career and the links between religion and science.  

Turner watercolour and work of Iona-based artist feature in exhibitions

On Saturday 27th March 2010 two new exhibitions opened at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery.   The centre-piece to the Art of Progress exhibition will be a 1833 painting by JMW Turner of the old stone bridge across the River Ness, a striking landmark of its day, while works created by silversmithing and weaving by award winning Scottish artist Mhairi Killen feature in the Absent Voices exhibition.  

Raising Funds and Awareness For Autism - A Film

SCREENING AT CAITHNESS Thurso High School - Thursday 15 april 2010 - 7.00pm Wick High School - Thursday 6 May 2010 - 7.00pm Tickets are �5.50 and available from sharon.drain[AT]keyhousing.org or telephone 01847 894158 When his son Rowan was diagnosed with autism, Rupert Isaacson was devastated, afraid he might never be able to communicate with his child.   But when Isaacson, a lifelong horseman, rode their neighbour's horse with Rowan, Rowan improved immeasurably.