What's on in Dumfries and Galloway

Gary Meikle returns to the stage with another new show - which has quickly become the yearly norm for him now.

It’s 1964 but the sixties aren’t swinging for Mary Adams: 19-years-old, unmarried and pregnant. She is sent in secrecy and shame to St. Saviours, a Church of England mother-and-baby home run by a formidable Matron.

Get ready for the Guild of Players annual pantomime! This year, join us for Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood by Alan P Frayn. Directed by Rachel Reekie.

Programme:
Piazzolla, Fugata & Oblivion
Rachmaninoff, Vocalise
Brahms Intermezzo in A Major Op 118, No. 2 (piano solo)
Brahms Sonata in E Flat Major
Interval
Gershwin, Summertime & It ain’t necessarily so
Chopin, Grande Waltz Brillante in Eb Major Op. 18
Scott, Respectfully Yours
Watson, Rhapsody on an echo chamber

In A Big Country, an evening with Big Country’s Bruce Watson

Big Country founder and guitarist, Bruce Watson, dominated the charts in the 1980s and has never looked back.

Programme:
Bach, Sonata for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord in G Major, BWV 1027
Rameau, Gavotte et six Doubles
Ligeti, Sonata for Solo Cello
Interval
Stravinsky, Suite Italienne
Piazzolla, Le Grand Tango

Programme:
Mozart, Twelve Variations on “Ah vous dirai-je, Maman”
Beethoven, Piano Sonata No.15 D major Op. 28 (Pastoral)
Interval
Liszt, Six Consolations
Khachaturian, Vocalise , Lullaby from Gayane, Adagio from Spartacus, Sabre Dance

Orphaned…Oppressed…Unbreakable.

This is a cross-cultural community festival celebrating Japan-Scotland connections.

Nigel McIntyre and Gareth Watson present Jason Fox – Embrace the Chaos

Some people are built to Embrace the Chaos. Jason Fox is one of them, having survived some of the most hostile outposts on earth as an elite operator, documentary maker and expedition leader.