March Events

Saturday 14th February - 17th March
Exhibition R.B Kitaj - In Our Time: Covers from a Small Library
The Watermill Mill Street Aberfeldy
The Watermill Gallery, Aberfeldy is pleased to be holding an exhibition of works by R.B Kitaj. In Our Time: Covers for a Small Library After the Life for the Most Part is a portfolio of 50 screenprints, produced by Kitaj in 1969. A painter and graphic artist, Kitaj, who lived in London, is often referred to as one of the most prominent figures in the pop art movement.
Tel: 01887 822896 The Watermill, Mill Street, Aberfeldy. www.aberfeldywatermill.com

March 2009
Alpine Safari
Highland Safaris, The Safari Lodge, Aberfeldy,
Climb aboard your Safari Land Rover with a kilted Safari Ranger for a wonderful winter white Alpine Safari. Escape to the high tops to search for snow buntings, the snowy white Ptarmigan, elusive white Mountain Hare and majestic Red Deer. Refreshments in a heated Mountain Bothy.
For full details and bookings contact Highland Safaris on 01887 820071
Email: info@highlandsafaris.net www.highlandsafaris.net

Sunday 1st March 10.30am - 4.30pm
Costume Design Masterclass with Anya Glinski (Workshop)
Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Look at theatre costume design, from history and fashion through the ages to the theory of design. Re-Hash remaking and re-trimming costumes.......£52 Tel Box Office 01796 484626 E/Mail boxoffice@pitlochry.org.uk Web www.pitlochry.org.uk

Wednesday 4th March 7pm
Pine Marten Evening
Loch of the Lowes Visitor Centre (A923 2mls from Dunkeld)
“Join us as we look out for these elusive creatures from inside the visitor centre”. £10 for non-members, £8 for SWT members and £5 for children. Not suitable for children under 8 years old. Prices include tea and coffee. Booking is essential. Contact the Visitor Centre on 01350727337 or lochofthelowes@swt.org.uk

Thursday 5th March 7pm.
Forum on Sustainability in Highland Perthshire.
Guide Hut, Well Brae. Pitlochry.
All welcome.

Thursday 5th & Friday 6th March
Happy Go Lucky - Heartland Film Society
The Locus Centre - Aberfeldy
Poppy is a thirty-year old Primary School teacher in contemporary North London. She has great friends, a job she loves and a full life. The movie watches her confront the harsh realities of life and deal with them head-on, never losing her sense of humour. Humour, and sometimes benign derision, are Poppy’s ways of keeping sulkiness out of her life. But, as everyone with a heart should feel, that is a gift, not a deficit. Director Mike Leigh produces his usual social commentary mixed with strong familial ties built into a lovingly crafted leisurely journey.
UK 2008 Certificate 15, 118 mins Tel:01887 830307 www.heartlandfilmsociety.org.uk

Friday 6th March 7.30pm
Desperado - Eagles Tribute Band
Pitlochry Festival Theatre
The show is over 2 hours long and includes all the classics, with sweet vocal harmonies layered over note perfect guitar breaks, licks, slides, and solos. Tickets £14 - £16
Tel Box Office 01796 484626 E/Mail boxoffice@pitlochry.org.uk Web www.pitlochry.org.uk

Saturday 7th March 2.30pm,
Display & exhibition - Highland Perthshire Communities Land Trust and talk by Alan Stewart Police Wildlife Liason Officer
Molteno Hall Fortingall
Alan Stewart - author of Wildlife Detective is the guest speaker. Dun Coillich have your say on the next 50yrs.

Saturday 7th March 7.30pm
Showaddywaddy
Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Showaddywaddy will take to the Pitlochry stage for the first time in what promises to be a finger clicking, side-stepping, rock `n` roll evening. Tickets £16.50
Tel Box Office 01796 484626 E/Mail boxoffice@pitlochry.org.uk Web www.pitlochry.org.uk

Tuesday 10th March
Quiz Night
The Auld Smiddy Inn, Atholl Rd Pitlochry
Quiz Night

Wednesday 11th March 7pm
Pine Marten Evening
Loch of the Lowes Visitor Centre (A923 2mls from Dunkeld)
“Join us as we look out for these elusive creatures from inside the visitor centre”. £10 for non-members, £8 for SWT members and £5 for children. Not suitable for children under 8 years old. Prices include tea and coffee. Booking is essential. Contact the Visitor Centre on 01350727337 or lochofthelowes@swt.org.uk

Thursday 12th March 7.30pm
Charity Fashion Show
Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Tickets £12.50 (inc wine & buffet)
Tel Box Office 01796 484626 E/Mail boxoffice@pitlochry.org.uk Web www.pitlochry.org.uk

Thursday 12 March 8pm
Rumba Caliente - Afro Latin Soul Orchestra Tour
Birnam Institute Birnam
One of the UK's most exciting Salsa-Soul groups, led by Salsa Celtica's Toby Shippey.
Tickets £12 (Concessions £10) Telephone - 01350 727674 Email: admin@birnaminstitute.com Web www.birnamarts.com

Friday 13th March 7.30 - 10pm
Country Dancing
Kynachan Hall Country Dancing - Tummel Bridge
Beginners welcome - you don't need a partner and you get a cup of tea! £4 per evening or £20 for all sessions.

Saturday 14th March 7.30pm
Music in Rannoch
Old Church of Rannoch
Scott Mitchell (piano) and Una McMahon (soprano) £7.50. Children free

Saturday 14th March 8pm
Fur Coat and Magic Knickers
Birnam Institute Birnam
MSFits Theatre Company. Maggie is a compulsive shopper with more cards than Hallmark. She just has to buy buy buy! How far will she go to satisfy her obsession. Tickets £10 (Concessions £8) Telephone - 01350 727674 Email: admin@birnaminstitute.com Web www.birnamarts.com

Sunday 15th March,
Aberfeldy Young Farmers will be holding a dung sale in Pitlochry.
Costs are £3 a barrow load, £5 for 2. Trailer load is £25. Pre order basis only and can be ordered from Kirsty on 07796776121.

Monday 16th March 7.30
Talk: The importance of a Scots pine's body odour
The Tryst Pitlochry.
Talk by Dr Glen Iason.

Monday 16th & Tuesday 17th March 10.30am- 4.30pm
Watercolours: Next Steps with Richard Alred (Workshop)
Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Richard will help you develop your skills and techniques. You are encouraged to bring your favourite colours and brushes. £88.00 Tel Box Office 01796 484626
E/Mail boxoffice@pitlochry.org.uk Web www.pitlochry.org.uk

Wednesday 18th March 7pm
Pine Marten Evening
Loch of the Lowes Visitor Centre (A923 2mls from Dunkeld)
“Join us as we look out for these elusive creatures from inside the visitor centre”. £10 for non-members, £8 for SWT members and £5 for children. Not suitable for children under 8 years old. Prices include tea and coffee. Booking is essential. Contact the Visitor Centre on 01350727337 or lochofthelowes@swt.org.uk

Thursday 19th March 8pm

MACGREGOR, BRECHIN & O HEADHRA

Birnam Arts Centre Station Road, Birnam, Dunkeld
The Fiddle Tree features the highly acclaimed trio Macgregor, Brechin & Ó hEadhra. These three very popular Celtic musicians have each forged enviable reputations in their own rights and have now joined forces to produce a unique and exquisite blend of Scottish and Irish traditional and contemporary music. Tickets: Adult - £8 (advance), £10 (on door); available at Zigzags, Dunkeld (01350 728666) and at Birnam CD (01350 727158).Under-18s - £3 / 2 for £5

Online: www.thebooth.co.uk Tel.: 01350 727158

Friday 20th March 7.30pm
Music in Rannoch - Scott Mitchell on piano and Una McMahon Soprano
The Old Church of Rannoch
Tickets are available on the door about £7.50.

Friday 20th March 2pm - 5pm
Cartoon Drawing Workshop with Tim Quinn
Pitlochry Festival Theatre
If you love to draw, then learn from the man who personally knows Spider Man, Beryl the Peril and Incredible Hulk! £20 - £28 with evening talk. Tel Box Office 01796 484626
E/Mail boxoffice@pitlochry.org.uk Web www.pitlochry.org.uk

Friday 20th March 7.30pm
ARGH! - The Ups and Downs of Life as a Comic Book Creator
Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Tim Quinn, former producer of the South Bank Show and editor of Marvel Comics (Superman, X-Men) takes you on a nostalgic trip down memory lane to meet some of the great and not-so great comic characters of the last 150 years.
Tim also takes you behind-the-scenes from his days working for The Beano, Sparky, Bunty, Playhour, Jack & Jill, Buster, The Topper, the Daily Mirror’s Jane and Garth, and America’s finest Marvel Comics, to running his own comic book company alongside the elder daughter of Enid Blyton. The audience is invited to attend wearing capes and masks . . .Suitable for boys and girls from 9-150! (No nudity, swearing or violence, but please come anyway.)
Tim will also be taking a workshop on Cartoon Drawing Skills, 1.30pm - 4.30pm on the same day. Tickets £12.50 (£28 inc Workshop) Tel Box Office 01796 484626
E/Mail boxoffice@pitlochry.org.uk Web www.pitlochry.org.uk

Friday 20th - Sunday 22nd March
The Niel Gow Festival
Dunkeld & Birnam
The 6th Niel Gow festival will feature some of Scotland's finest fiddlers as well as other top Scottish musicians. Contact - The Taybank Telephone - 01350 727340
Email: admin@thetaybank.com Web www.niel-gow.co.uk

Saturday 21st March - 27th April
Liz Murray - Albert & Solange (Exhibition)
Aberfeldy Watermill Mill St Aberfeldy.
Comprised of delicate mixed media works that build up in two and three dimesions, the exhibition suggests a romance between a botanist and a dressmakers, Albert and Solange, in 1920's Paris.

Saturday 21st March 7.30pm
Red Hot Chilli Pipers
Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
Since winning the prime time BBC One show When Will I Be Famous with a blistering set that astounded the viewers and critics, the Red Hot Chilli Pipers have been rocking the world from the USA to Beijing! Voted “Live Act of the Year 2007” at the Scots Trad Music Awards, they put a modern spin on incredible piping and astounding drumming with an emphasis on showing off!
Stuart Cassells is a twice world champion snare drummer and was the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year in 2005. His piping has featured on the soundtrack of the film Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire. The Pipers also features three band members who have recently graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
Bagpipes with attitude and drums with a Scottish flair, this show is guaranteed to amaze any audience: The Red Hot Chilli Pipers really are a genuinely unique experience. Tickets £17.50 (£13.50 u16s) Tel Box Office 01796 484626 E/Mail boxoffice@pitlochry.org.uk
Web www.pitlochry.org.uk

Sunday 22nd March,
Aberfeldy Young Farmers will be holding a dung sale in Aberfeldy.
Costs are £3 a barrow load, £5 for 2. £25 for a trailer load. Door to door service or pre order by phoning Leanne on 07789702668.

Sunday 22nd March 7.30pm
Showaddywaddy
Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Red Hot Chilli Pipers - Extra Date! Tickets £17.50
Tel Box Office 01796 484626 E/Mail boxoffice@pitlochry.org.uk Web www.pitlochry.org.uk

Wednesday 25th March 7pm
Pine Marten Evening
Loch of the Lowes Visitor Centre (A923 2mls from Dunkeld)
“Join us as we look out for these elusive creatures from inside the visitor centre”. £10 for non-members, £8 for SWT members and £5 for children. Not suitable for children under 8 years old. Prices include tea and coffee. Booking is essential. Contact the Visitor Centre on 01350727337 or lochofthelowes@swt.org.uk

Thursday 26th March 8pm
Nature's Treasure: Perth Museum's Natural History Collection.
Manse Hall Kinloch Rannoch.
Talk by Mark Simmons. £2. Visitors welcome.

Thursday 26th March 7.30pm
John Allison: Highland Railway
The Tryst Lounge, Pitlochry
a talk by John Allison. members free Visitors £3.00

Thursday 26th March 7.30pm
Liz Lochhead
Birnam Institute Birnam
An evening of Poetry and Monologues. This one woman show from Glasgow's Poet Laureate. Tickets £8 (Concessions £6) Contact - BI Arts Centre Telephone - 01350 727674 Email: admin@birnaminstitute.com Web www.birnamarts.com

Friday 27th March 7.30pm
Bhutan - In the Footsteps of George Sherriff
Pitlochry Festival Theatre
A talk by Julia Corden, Explorers Garden Manager
In 2008, Julia Corden, was invited to Bhutan to retrace the footsteps of plant hunter George Sherriff, marking the 60th anniversary of Sherriff’s last trip to this little known kingdom.
Relive Julia’s journey, which began in Bhumtang, moved along remote paths - some of which were part of the famous “Snow Man Trek”, known as one of the most dangerous and hardest treks in the world - and on and up to the very high mountain passes near the Tibetan border.
Julia will discuss some of her amazing discoveries and experiences in this area, which has not been botanised in the last 59 years – not, in fact, since George Sherriff’s time.
Together with stunning landscape pictures from this beautiful Himalyan kingdom, this will be a fascinating tale from a modern day plant hunter. Tickets £7.50 Tel Box Office 01796 484626 E/Mail boxoffice@pitlochry.org.uk Web www.pitlochry.org.uk

Dunkeld Bridge 200 28th - 29th March 2009
Dunkeld & Birnam
On the weekend of the 28th and 29th March 2009 Dunkeld and Birnam will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the opening of Dunkeld Bridge in 1809, and we would love for you to join in our celebrations. The weekend will see a number of events to commemorate our beautiful, and
historically important Telford Bridge. The events are as follows -

Saturday 28th March 3.00pm - 4.00pm
There will be a special parade, led by the Atholl Highlanders leaving from the car-park of the Royal School of Dunkeld, crossing over the Bridge and down into the Cross. We are looking for as many from the local community and beyond to join us in this parade. All are welcome. Following the parade there will be formalities in the Cross, including a few short speeches and a recital of Niel Gow's 'Dunkeld Bridge'.

Friday 27th - Saturday 28th March 7.30pm
The Bridge
Birnam Institute Birnam
With Birman Institute Players. As part of the 200th year celebrations of the bridge at Dunkeld, designed by Thomas Telford, the Birnam Institute Players present a One Act Comedy penned by a local award winning playwright Bob Davidson. Tickets £6 (Concessions £4) Tel - 01350 727674
Email: admin@birnaminstitute.com Web www.birnamarts.com

Saturday 28th March 7.30pm
the Birnam Institute.
There will be a short fiddle concert followed by an entertaining play based on the Bridge held in This involves local musicians and actors, and should be a lot of fun. The cost for the event is £6.00

Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th March 10.30am - 4.30pm
Watercolours: Beginners with James Murdoch. (Workshop)
Learn the initial basics of watercolour paining techniques. £88 Tel Box Office 01796 484626 E/Mail boxoffice@pitlochry.org.uk Web www.pitlochry.org.uk

Saturday 28th 9.00pm - 12.00 midnight
There will be a fantastic ceilidh held in the Birnam Institute; music provided by local fiddler Pete Clark and his band. The Ceilidh will be free, but numbers are limited. Tickets will be available in various outlets in Dunkeld and Birnam in the week or two leading up to the weekend.

Sunday 29 March
Strathtay Ramblers
Ben Vrackie 6 miles Start gridref: NN944598
Start at car park in Moulin for the old favourite return climb (640m/2759ft) on good paths. Note: Dogs possible: discuss with leader. Contact phone: 01887 830348
Meeting Info: Old Church Car Park, Crieff Road, Aberfeldy. 9.30 am. Local grade: A

Sunday 29th March 7.00pm
There will be a Service of Dedication to be held in Dunkeld Cathedral,
which everyone is welcome to attend.

Sunday 29th March 8.00pm
As a grande finale to the weekend there will be a fireworks display - the best place to see this will be from the grounds of the cathedral. Tea and coffee will be available in the Duchess Anne following the display.

Monday 30th March 7.30pm.
'Schoolmaster engineer: Adam Anderson.
The Tryst. Pitlochry.
Talk by Dr Kenneth Cameron to the Moulin & Pitlochry History Circle.
Visitors welcome £2.

This is a very important celebration for Dunkeld and Birnam, and for the wider community of Highland Perthshire - and we hope that you can come along and join us for a great weekend.

Monday 30th March 7.30pm.
'Schoolmaster engineer:
The Tryst.
Adam Anderson. Talk by Dr Kenneth Cameron to the Moulin & Pitlochry History Circle.
Visitors welcome £2.

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March Highland Perthshire Events