Cappuccino Concert, Saturday 21st February: 1100-1200: Catriona Scott, singer & Ian Hardie, guitar.

Admission £5, children  free. Tea/coffee available for donation

Catriona Scott, in addition to being a fine singer and former member of The Young Fife Roadshow, has a BA Honours in Scottish Literature with Music from the University of Stirling,. She also has an -ology in the Scottish Highland Dancing Tradition from The School of Scottish Studies! She has a wide knowledge of musical archives and has also contributed her own accessions to the School of Scottish Studies and the Glasgow College of Piping. Notable achievements include winning the Leng Medal, a Danny Award (Celtic Connections), the Grierson Prize for writing Scots poetry (University of Edinburgh) and the Sloan Prize for Scots prose (University of Edinburgh). In 2024, she also won the inaugural Glenfarg Folk Club Folkie Awards for best song.

Ian Hardie who hails originally from Mastrick, Aberdeen, has long had a keen interest in traditional music and song. He has played in various ceilidh bands in Northeast Scotland, including Clachan Yell, notably at the FLAC music festival in France, and Galik Bred of Stonehaven Aqua Ceilidh fame! For many years, he was also a guitar tutor with Scottish Culture and Traditions (SCaT). Ian is currently involved in several music projects in and around the Kinross area. He co-founded and leads Kinfolkies, a thriving weekly community folk club. Most recently, he and his trio, Amici, has been working on “Sound & Vision”; a collaboration with Scottish visual artists Pauline McGee and Julie Close, to create an hour-long collage of live music and animation. Ian plays Ibanez and Takamine guitars and a Moon mandolin.

Wednesday 4th February, 1pm. Nikodem Rodzen, violin

Please note timing.

A joint concert with Dundee Chamber Music Club and Live Music Now. The guest is a brilliant young violinist and composer whose set will contain some of the Wighton Collection gems!

Booking in advance is available, and advised, and this is the link.

Dundee Chamber Music Club – 04/02/2026 1:00pm – Special Event: Lunchtime Concert at the Wighton Heritage Centre Nikodem Rodzeń solo violin recital

 

Saturday 24th Jan 2pm- 4pm: A Celebration of Burns!

A special Burns season fundraiser for the Friends of Wighton programme – please note timing!  Featuring Barbara Dymock, Wilma Kennedy, Sheena Wellington, Wighton Singers, Piers Bowser as Tam O Shanter, Erin Farley, Morag Anne Elder’s  Mixed Instruments, Mary Veal’s Harpers, and a singalong with Karen McAulay on piano!

Admission by donation, raffle, auction, refreshments available!  Not to be missed!

West End Festive Specials

What says Christmas more than beautiful festive music played on the harp?  We’ve got some for you, not just once but twice!

As part of  West End Christmas Fortnight, tutor Mary Veal and the Wighton harp class warmly invite you to pop into Blackness Library (side door on the right) on Monday 8th December at 2pm to enjoy some Christmas music, and a cup of tea!

Our lovely harpers will also be having an informal session in the porch at St Joseph’s, Wilkie’s Lane, on Monday 15th December from 2pm, with Christmas tunes and festive fare! They would love to see you there!

Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame: MG Alba Scots Trad Awards

We are absolutely delighted, thrilled and chuffed to the soles of our slippers to announce that, on Saturday 6th December,  Rosa Michaelson, Friends of Wighton’s Membership Secretary, will be inducted, along with her colleagues in the ground-breaking band Sprangeen, into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame at the MG Alba Scots Trad Awards. Rosa, a classically trained violinist who plays sonata or strathspey with equal skill, is an acknowledged authority on Scottish fiddle tunes. Congratulations, Rosa, we are proud of you!

We send congratulations, too, to our recent Cappuccino Concert guest, Elspeth Cowie, who will also be inducted at the ceremony at Aberdeen’s Music Hall on Saturday.  The Trad Awards are shown on BBC Alba on Saturday 6th from 9pm

A Very Bonnie Christmas Concert: Tuesday 9th December, 1.15pm

The traditional end of year concert from the Wighton Singers under the leadership of Amy Lord.  The songs all have Bonnie in the title, the harmonies will be sublime! The Singers have had a busy year with several warmly received community events to their credit and they  look forward to welcoming you!

Admission is by donation and there will be tea, coffee and an impressive array of biscuits and confectionery!

 

Cappuccino Concert, Saturday 29th Nov: 1100-1200: What the Brontes Did at the Fringe! with Pauline Vallance

Admission £5, tea/coffee available for donation to Outreach Programme

The world famous Bronte Sisters, authors of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights come to Fringe! What shows would they go to? Would they hit the nightlife? A one woman show with original songs and a kicking bonnet!

 The  show  has been presented at the Edinburgh Fringe and Morecambe Fringe, at Spital Arts and at the Haworth Festival (in the very hall where Charlotte had her wedding reception!). It imagines Charlotte Bronte visiting Edinburgh at 3 separate moments in her life – with her sisters before they become famous, alone after her sisters have died, but when she has become famous and on a romantic trip with her new husband. It includes a trip to a nightclub, an interview as part of the Book Festival, with discussion on the actors set to play Rochester and a death scene, including Charlotte’s actual last words.

  The story is interspersed with 6 original songs, 3 of which feature on Pauline’s album ‘The World’s a Gift’, which has been called “A gift that keeps on giving” Folking.com The show has been described as “a warm, gently comic show….as refreshing and genteel as high tea” (Morecambe Fringe) Audience comments have included “managed to tell the story in a sweet, funny and sad way” and “this show has heart as well as laughs”.

https://youtu.be/3Q0gxZmS6pE

 

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