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Carrbridge is a small but lively community where there is always plenty going on to interest both local residents and visiting tourists alike. The village hosts a regular touring performance programme with everything from traditional, classical and contemporary music to professional theatre and dance. The thriving cultural scene includes a variety of other arts and crafts activities plus local sports and international competition, festivals, workshops and ceilidhs. There is also a whole host of events and activities organised by the various groups and organisations within the village from the annual duck race to the annual World Porridge Making Championships.

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Welcome to Carrbridge Community - A traditional Scottish Highland village in the heart of modern Scotland

December 2009

SUNDAY 13 DECEMBER 2009 (Aviemore)
Second Samba-style drum workshop

WORLD PORRIDGE MAKING Carrumba

For beginners and drummers who want to try something different. No experience required!
Come to a "taster" session with Carrumba Street Drumming Band and discover your noisy side!
Session leader: Mat Clements (Orkestra del Sol & Where’s the One)

Ages 16 to 96+ welcome!

Sunday 13th December, 10.00am-5.00pm, Aviemore Youth Hostel.

Cost: £5 (subsidised by Carrumba Street Drumming Band)
Booking essential (places may be limited)!

Email carrumba.carrbridge@hotmail.com or phone 07818 622816 (evenings only).


WEDNESDAY 30 DECEMBER 2009
Céilidh / Dance with Anne Dickson Band

Ceilidh / Dance with Anne Dickson Band & Ronnie Douglas on Accordion Carrbridge Village Hall Tickets £6 (limited to 120), available from Iain Campbell or Dougie Edwards Raising Money for Village Hall Fund

November 2009

SUNDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2009 (Aviemore)
Samba-style drum workshop

WORLD PORRIDGE MAKING CarrumbaNever held a drumstick? Want to give it a bash? Come to a "taster" session with Carrumba Street Drumming Band and discover your noisy side! Specially tailored for beginners: no experience required Ages 16 to 96+ welcome! Session leader: Mat Clements (Orkestra del Sol and Where's the One) www.wherestheone.co.uk

Sunday 15th November, 10.00am-5.00pm Aviemore Village Hall
Cost: £5 (subsidised by Carrumba Street Drumming Band) Booking essential (places may be limited)! To find out more, please email carrumba.carrbridge@hotmail.com

If you can count to 4, find out where the one is! For all: fun-loving music people, would-be drummers, lively, young-at-heart folk (ages 16-96+) and "give it a go" adventurers!

September 2009

SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER 2009
WORLD PORRIDGE MAKING CHAMPIONSHIP 2009......
WORLD PORRIDGE MAKING CHAMPIONSHIP 2008The annual World Porridge Making Championships is followed with interest by connoisseurs of the traditional national dish across the globe. Local produce and craft stalls, pipeband parade of judges and competitors, the official Toast to the Porridge, live music, product tastings and street entertainment. Guest judge for 2009 is TV presenter and cook book author, Nell Nelson who last visited Carrbridge when she was making her TV series "The Woman Who Ate Scotland."

Also incorporating the Carrbridge Challenge 5km & 3km Forest Run with fund raisings for Maggie's Highlands.

See: www.goldenspurtle.com.

Homecoming 2009

SATURDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER 2009
Rachel Sermanni and Company

Carrbridge Village Hall @ 7pm
Tickets £3/£2 under 18's
Tickets available to buy from Old Bakery Coffee Shop
or on the night.

Rachel Sermanni and Company

Carrbridge Films, local, youth, independent film company present 'Rachel Sermanni and Company' a concert being hosted as part of the production of their latest film, 'The Guild'. Rachel has recently gained national recognition after her performance of 'My Love is Like a Red Red Rose' at the Homecoming Burns Supper hosted by First Minister Alex Salmond marking the 250thanniversaryof the birth of Robert Burns. Following a number of performances across the country she will be taking to the stage with fellow young musicians for an evening of musical entertainment. More info about the concert.

FRIDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2009
A FUNNY VALENTINE

@ 7.30pm
Carrbridge Village Hall
Tickets £8/£6 under 18's
Carrbridge Community Arts Ticket Line: 01479841211
Tickets online at www.thebooth.co.uk

Funny Valentine

The story and music of Chet Baker told by Mike Maran with live music on stage arranged and performed by Colin Steele and Dave Milligan directed by Patrick Sandford.
It’s 1961 and Chet Baker is in jail in Lucca. He had been voted best trumpet player in the world only five years before – now he’s doing time in an Italian jail for drug offences. Italians strolling around the town walls stop and listen to the sound of Chet’s golden trumpet wafting through the prison bars. Chet shared his prison cell with a storyteller. The storyteller became his friend.

Twenty-eight years later, Chet shared a hotel room in Amsterdam with his friend. That was the night Chet Baker died. Only the storyteller knows what really happened. He knows the whole story – and now he’s telling it. With live music on stage arranged and performed by Colin Steele (trumpet) and Dave Milligan (piano) this is an unforgettable evening of jazz, junk, and genius!
Not suitable for audiences younger than 15 years. www.mikemaran.com

WEDNESDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2009
Mull Theatre present
ISLAND NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS

Carrbridge Village Hall @ 7.30pm
Tickets £7/£5 under 18's
Carrbridge Community Arts Ticket Line: 01479 841211
Tickets online at www.thebooth.co.uk

ISLAND NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS

Family entertainment with comedy, adventure, poetry and song. With live music, a bit of a ceilidh dance and scenes from  Mull Theatre's productions of Para Handy, Whisky Galore, Kidnapped and Katie Morag, this is a trip round the islands like no other.

Everyone’s on board the ferry, on their way back for the big Homecoming dance, but there's a strong north-easterly and they can't get into the pier. So with the boat and the passengers going roon' and roon', all you need is a well stocked bar and “once-famous” Highland entertainer Calum MacAskill to get a right good ceilidh going

SATURDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2009
Carve Carrbridge.

The Carrbridge Gathering and Scottish Open Chainsaw Carving Championship

Chainsaw Chick Angie Polglaze who may be among the top line of international chainsaw carvers battling it out in the Scottish Open Chainsaw Carving Championships
Scottish Open Chainsaw Carving Championships The seventh annual Carrbridge Gathering and Scottish Open Chainsaw Carving Championship this year sees a record number of 20 competitors from as far afield as the USA, Australia and Germany who have four hours to create a winning sculpture from an eight foot-long log of Sitka Spruce.

There is also a Quick Carve section and Grand Auction with visitors invited to bid for all the sculptures created during the day.

The jam packed, day-long programme also includes a pipe band, live music, belly dancing demonstrations and workshops, a wobbly bike contest and a whole host of stalls and sideshows along with catering stands and a licenced bar.

The event is sponsored by the Landmark Forest Theme Park which is offering a 10 per cent discount on admission over the weekend to chainsaw championship visitors. Additional event parking is available at the Landmark Centre with a free vintage shuttle bus being provided by MacBraynes.

See: www.carvecarrbridge.com

Carrbridge village playing fields - From 10.30am
Adults £4/ under 16's £2,/ under fives free
(Note: 2008 prices, 2009 TBC)
ORGANISED BY CARRBRIDGE COMMUNITY COUNCIL

August 2009

SUNDAY 9 AUGUST 2009
Duck Race - River Dulnain, Carrbridge.
Prizes of £100, £75, £50 & £25.
Ducks

June 2009

SUNDAY 14 JUNE 2009
Scottish Arts Council Tune-Up Tour:

VOYAGE DE NUIT.

Carrbridge Village Hall at 7.30pm

Tickets £7/ £5 under 18s, available at door
Carrbridge Community Arts Ticket Line: 01479 841211
Bring your own bottle


VOYAGE DE NUIT

Traditional Celtic music meets the rhythm of flamenco and the harmony of jazz.

First working together at the highly prestigious International World Music residency in New York, world-class French flamenco-jazz uitarist and composer Philippe Guidat and well known traditional Celtic flautist, singer and comoposer, Nuala Kennedy discovered a new musical world where they could combine their compositional styles.

Their work has resulted in the creation of Voyage de Nuit - a collaborative ensemble which also harnesses the musical talents of Bolivian Diego Landivar (percussion), Mario Caribe from Brazil on double bass and Luke Daniels on accordion. With the backing of the Scottish Arts Council, the Voyage de Nuit Tune-Tour will premier a programme of new music which takes its inspiration from people and places, love and laughter, tears and sadness. Evocative, moving and sparkling with instrumental virtuosity, it is music which is set to dazzle the mind and seduce the senses. Don't miss this opportunity to see them!

April 2009

SATURDAY 25 April 2009
Dragonfly Dreaming Puppet Theatre present:

That's Rubbish.

Carrbridge Village Hall at 2pm
Tickets £2.50
Carrbridge Community Arts Ticket Line: 01479 841211
Tickets also available on the door

Part of the Puppet Animation Festival 2009

That's Rubbish

Recycling provides the main theme for Dragonfly Dreaming Puppet Theatre's colourful and humorous production which comes to Carrbridge Village Hall on the afternoon of Saturday April 25 as part of the annual Puppet Animation Festival.

That's Rubbish sees Skiprat take the audience on a journey from polystyrene to potato skins via the supermarket, compost heap, rubbish bin and the local dump.

The show, which is suitable for all the family, cuts out all the junk and keeps all the good bits to create new ideas from rubbish. There is also a free pre-show puppet making workshop from 10am - 12 noon.

There are limited workshop places which need to be booked in advance by telephoning the ticket line on 01479 841211. The workshop is suitable for youngsters from six years up to 12 years old.

 

2009 DIARY

Please email events to info@carrbridge.com

30 Dec 2009
Céilidh / Dance with Anne Dickson Band

13 Dec 2009
Drum workshop

15 Nov 2009
Drum workshop

Until 30 Oct 2009
SPOOKSVILLE!

11 Oct 2009
Golden Spurtle

25 Sept 2009
Rachel Sermanni
and Company

9 Sept 2009
Windfarm Meeting
(see home page)

10 Sept 2009
A Funny Valentine

16 Sept 2009
Island Nights' Entertainments

4 May 2009 at 7.30pm
Village Hall AGM

14 June 2009
VOYAGE DE NUIT

4 July 2009
Passing Steam Train

9 August 2009
Duck Race

5 Sept 2009
Carve Carrbridge

11 Oct 2009
Golden Spurtle


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