Festival Events 2017
They Lit Up Our Lives
Glentanar Court Social Group wanted to take part in To Absent Friends after losing several much loved friends and neighbours in the last two years.
Singer Ciaradh Maguire will sing songs selected by tenants, songs that have meaning or remind them of those who have passed. Tenants will share memories of lost friends and neighbours, and at the end of the evening will take five minutes to sit in silence with their memories whilst looking onto the garden, where in the darkness LED lanterns will be placed, one for each of those we have lost within the complex in recent years, and others placed by tenants in remembrance of family and friends they have lost outwith the complex.
This event will be open to tenants, their families and friends and the local carers team.
Thursday 2 November
Glentanar Court, Paisley, PA1 1RS
Remembrance Supper & Jazz Improv
The people of Eskdalemuir are gathering together for an evening of supper, stories and music in honour of people who have died and yet are significant in the memories of community members.
The evening will feature readings and songs from:
- Esk Valley Scribblers
- Eskdalemuir Jazz Improv choir
- Jilly Jarmin founder of Bluejam Arts
All are welcome to come and enjoy a supper, music and conversations. If you would like to sing, play or recite, please get in touch. Please if you wish bring a small photo or artefact to place on the tree of remembrance.
Friday 3 November, 6.30pm
Eskdalemuir
Community Hub and Café The School, Eskdalemuir, Langholm, Dumfriesshire, DG13 0QJ
Edinburgh Brass Band
Edinburgh Brass Band's To Absent Friends concert is now an annual fixture, back for a fourth year, and anticipated by the local community and band members alike.
Taking inspiration from and honouring absent friends, Edinburgh Brass Band will blend the melancholy with the magnificent. Playing by candlelight in the majestic surroundings of St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral right in the heart of Edinburgh, the concert will be open and free to all.
Saturday 4 November 2017, 7.30pm
St Mary's Cathedral, Palmerston Place, Edinburgh Book here: tickets.
Tribute to Keith Cockburn
Musicians in Aberdeenshire will be gathering for a celebration of the musical life of the late Keith Cockburn.
Doors will open at 5.30pm for friends to gather, chat, have a bite to eat and drink. The concert will begin at 7pm and be mixture of professional and amateur musicians who knew Keith and appreciated the huge contribution he made to music in the north-east of Scotland.
Admission will be by donation (to Huntly Music School) and it will be BYOB.
Saturday 4 November, Doors: 5.30pm, Concert: 7pm
The Tin Hut, Gartly (aka Gartly Community Hall), nr Huntly, Aberdeenshire, AB54 4PX
A Night to Remember
The Caithness Big Band invites you to join them in an upbeat remembrance and celebration of lives which were lived to the full and which ended too soon.
For the band, it is a night to remember their founder, Jim Marshall. For the audience it is an opportunity to remember and celebrate the lives of anyone they've lost to cancer.
So come along for a lively social tea dance featuring the Caithness Big Band and the Sunday Night Band.
Saturday 4 November 2017, 7.30pm
The Weigh
Inn, Thurso, Caithness
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