Isle of Lismore 2009 Homecoming Week
As part of the 2009 Year of Homecoming which celebrates emigrants, the places they now link us to and their achievements in their new homelands, Lismore is to run a ‘Homecoming Lismore’ week from 8th –...
View ArticleArgyll’s Walking Theatre Company shortlisted for Highlands and Islands...
Argyll’s – and Cowal’s – The Walking Theatre Company (TWTC) is one of only four businesses short-listed in the New Tourism Business Category at the Highlands and Islands Tourism Awards, to be held at...
View ArticleFirst Minister commits to Argyll’s Homecoming 2009 Oban Mod
As he set off for the annual SNP Conference opening today in Perth, Alex Salmond revealed to The Oban Times that he will be present in Oban for the Homecoming 2009 Mod. He said: ‘I always think of Oban...
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Jim Mather is cover story in Holyrood Magazine and welcomes Argyll’s plans...
Jim Mather, Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism and Argyll’s constituency MSP is on the cover of the Holyrood Magazine for October with a five-page feature profile by Mandy Rhodes inside.What...
View ArticleCouncil funds six Cowal events for Argyll Homecoming 2009
Homecoming 2009, which will run from Burns Night to St Andrew’s Day wll see six events in Cowal funded by Argyll and Bute Council to a total of £34,000. The awards are:Cowalfest, £10,000Sandbank...
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Argyll’s Spirit of the West event gets a spirited launch for Homecoming 2009
May 2009 is Whisky Month in the Homecoming Scotland 2009 programme. Over two days – Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th May – 6,000 people are expected at the Spirit of the West event, showcasing...
View ArticleOban’s Homecoming Hogmanay rockfest. Fantastic gig. Wrong venue.
Yes, it’ll be the start of the Year of Homecoming and Oban plans to get it moving big time with an estimated audience of 8,000 for a genuinely exciting Hogmanay gig.The headline act is the Red Hot...
View ArticleJim Mather, Argyll’s MSP, will support and campaign for Pilgrim Way from Iona...
Argyll’s MSP, Jim Mather, Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism, has sent For Argyll a note on his personal support for Roseanna Cunningham’s proposal for a Pilgrim Way walking route from Iona to...
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Put your Burns Supper on the map – your village, Mount Aconcagua or Ben Nevis
A new website – BurnsSupper2009 – has been created to capture everyone’s plans for celebrating this landmark Burns Night and establish a new World Record for the greatest number of Burns suppers ever...
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Cowal artists’ Studio Trail
There has long been a tremendous talent pool of visual artists in Cowal, but until the inauguration of the Cowal Open Studios last year there was only informal cooperation between the artists. Many...
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The Cowalfest conundrum
The Black Prince, a curvy yellow vase, walking, an Argyll car, the founder of the science of ballistics, Japan and Dunoon.Believe it or not, there is a link that binds these together.One part of the...
View ArticleRhapsody on Rhapsody
We’ve had several warmly positive responses to the Argyll Rhapsody, part of Argyll’s Homecoming 2009 events and organised through Argyll & Bute’s Education Department.Because of the spontaneity of...
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Fiddlefolk international concert at Strachur
You get two great international trios for the price of one – musicians from Scotland, USA, Sweden and Denmark join forces for a great afternoon out.at FiddleFolk’s last international concert of the...
View Article2009 For Argyll Awards: get ready
This is advance warning on the award categories, timetable and procedure for this celebration of the real wealth of achievements in Argyll this year.They’re nearly upon you – and us. They’re the...
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One man’s solidarity with the independent Bonspielers
Graeme Murdoch is delighted at the independent spirit of the curlers who organised their own informal events - curling, ice hockey, ice skating – at the Lake of Mentieth on Saturday and Sunday.This...
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