WAULK THIS WAY AT AUCHINDRAIN, FOR HOMESPUN HARMONIES
Once a month, during most of the summer season, visitors to Auchindrain, Scotland’s last remaining ‘living museum’ township, can listen to the ladies of Sgioba Luaidh Inbhirchluaidh (Inverclyde Waulking Group) make a tuneful appearance. Together since 2000, this ten-strong women’s band has performed their traditional Gaelic waulking music at Auchindrain for 15 years and have […]
PLANET LOCAL SUMMIT
‘The most important global gathering focused on localization – ever’ : LOCAL FUTURES – host of the Planet Local Summit. ‘Local Futures’, founded by Helena Norberg-Hodge, is an international non-profit organisation and a pioneer of the new economy movement. It has been raising awareness for four decades about the need to shift direction – away from dependence on […]
JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SPRING CONCERT
The Jersey Symphony Orchestra will be holding its Spring Concert on Saturday 15 April 2023 at Les Quennevais School Concert Hall, St Brelade, starting at 7.30pm. The Orchestra’s principal conductor, Hilary Davan Wetton, returns for this concert, entitled Northern Lights, for which he has selected an exciting programme, unified by the great Northern European tradition […]
SPRING – A TIME FOR PRUNING
Pruning is one of the actions which can be done in March and early April. By Catherine Penny Spring is an exciting season in the garden, buds are bursting and the first flowers are giving us colour so we can forget the grey days of Winter. It is also a time when much work needs […]