What's on in Dumfries and Galloway

You may well come away with a shiver running down your spine and with seasonally spooky stories to share around your fireside at Christmas!

Murder, mystery, heroes and history! Starting at the iconic Moffat Ram, join your Mostly Ghostly guides and explore a darker, more curious side to this wonderfully vibrant town.

Programme:
Grieg, Sonata no.3
Brahms, Sonata no.3
Interval
Vitali, Chaconne
Ravel, Tzigane
Bizet-Waxman, Carmen Fantasy

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

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.

Jay Rayner faces some serious questions and in Nights Out in the Kitchen, the show marking publication of his fabulous new cookbook, he’s finally going to answer them.