The Fiddle Tree is a not-for-profit organisation based in Birnam and Dunkeld in Highland Perthshire. Since forming in 2003 it has promoted and staged local concerts and events featuring a wide range of international performers of the highest quality. During May 2013 it presented Bruce Molsky, America's reigning old time fiddler.
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Camera and Production by Calum Hadden.
With funding support from Ellis Campbell Campbell Charitable Foundation Enterprise Grants programme, administered through Foundation Scotland
John Durnin, Chief Executive and Artistic Director at Pitlochry Festival Theatre, discusses some of the challenges and joys that are unique to producing a season of six plays, in rolling repertoire. .
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Camera and production by Tricia O’Grady; filmed and produced by/for Comment, the news magazine of Highland Perthshire with grant assistance from the Ellis Campbell Foundation.
After four months touring in Eastern Europe to promote their latest album "World of Chances", hugely popular Scots band Skerryvore bring their "Put Your Hands Up" tour to Pitlochry Festival Theatre for a sell-out show early in April 2013. .
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Camera and Production by Calum Hadden.
With funding support from Ellis Campbell Campbell Charitable Foundation Enterprise Grants programme, administered through Foundation Scotland
After many years of fund-raising and an extensive reconstruction programme, the Birks Cinema finally (re)opened its doors to the public after a series of preview screenings culminated in the "Golden Ticket" event on Friday 19th April 2013. Interviewed are Daniel Maslen of the Friends of the Birks board and Paul Foley, the Cinema manager. .
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Camera and Production by Ben Grieve
With funding support from Ellis Campbell Campbell Charitable Foundation Enterprise Grants programme, administered through Foundation Scotland
The 'Trav 50' is a project to celebrate the Traverse Theatre's 50th year. Pitlochry's Giles Conisbee, who has worked in the commercial side of theatre for many years, has now won a year long attachment being mentored and developed as a writer by the theatre as part of 'Trav 50'.
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Camera and production by Tricia O’Grady; filmed and produced by/for Comment, the news magazine of Highland Perthshire with grant assistance from the Ellis Campbell Foundation.
April 1st and 2nd 2013 saw the official opening of the Aberfeldy Slalom Centre. Stephen MacDonald tells us a little about the events.
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Camera and Production by Ben Grieve
With funding support from Ellis Campbell Campbell Charitable Foundation Enterprise Grants programme, administered through Foundation Scotland
After the original bench on the banks of the Tay was destroyed by a branch fallen from Niel Gow's Oak during a storm, a new bench was unveiled at a small ceremony on Saturday 23rd March 2013 by Peter Fullarton of the Forestry Commission.
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Camera and Production by Ben Grieve
With funding support from Ellis Campbell Campbell Charitable Foundation Enterprise Grants programme, administered through Foundation Scotland
After studying at art college in the '80s and a break to have a family, Edinburgh-based artist Anne Gilchrist returned to painting in 2001. In 2012, with support from locals and the National Trust for Scotland, she started her Ben Lawers Project, the exhibition of which runs at the Birnam Institute, Dunkeld, until 31 March.
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Camera and production by Tricia O’Grady; filmed and produced by/for Comment, the news magazine of Highland Perthshire with grant assistance from the Ellis Campbell Foundation.
Community singing group, Just Singin', celebrate their tenth anniversary and the launch of their debut CD with a concert held on Saturday 16th March 2013 at Birnam Arts Centre.
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Camera and Production by Calum Hadden
With funding support from Ellis Campbell Campbell Charitable Foundation Enterprise Grants programme, administered through Foundation Scotland
Frances Collier graduated from Birmingham City University in 2008 with a degree in Theatre Design. She worked as a Dresser (and styled millions of wigs) at Pitlochry Festival Theatre in 2009 and 2010. "A Chorus of Disapproval" is the third PFT show for which she has designed both the sets and costumes.
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Camera and production by Tricia O’Grady; filmed and produced by/for Comment, the news magazine of Highland Perthshire with grant assistance from the Ellis Campbell Foundation.
Following a ten year career in the police service, Audrey Slorance studied design at the Scottish College of Textiles in Galashiels. She worked freelance before taking up painting to which, with increasing success, she devotes much time in her studio at her home in Aberfeldy.
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Camera and Production by Callum McLaughlin and Calum Hadden.
With funding support from Ellis Campbell Campbell Charitable Foundation Enterprise Grants programme, administered through Foundation Scotland
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