Event Archive

2014

February

• Scots Herring Girls, 1900-1950: Oral History and Visual Narrative

  25 February 2014, 19:30 - 23:55

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

January

• Many a Step I've Travelled - 'S Iomadh Ceum a Shiubhail Mi: Macaronic Songs in Gaelic, Scots and English

  21 January 2014, 19:30 - 23:55

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

2013

November

• Scandinavian Singing Workshop

  29 November 2013

  An introduction to singing and herding calls from the north of Sweden.

• The Power of the Fiddle

  26 November 2013, 19:30 - 23:55

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Open Evening

  07 November 2013, 18:00 - 21:00

  Elphinstone Institute

October

• Voicing Place: The Folk Voice in Modern Scotland

  29 October 2013, 19:30 - 23:59

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Never-Ending Tales

  27 October 2013, 19:00 - 20:45

  The Elphinstone Institute is proud to present an evening with the wonderful Aberdonian teller of tales, Tony Robertson. Descended from a long line of storytellers, Tony learned many stories traditional to travelling people from his father, Stanley Robertson, and others in his family. Tony’s remarkable storytelling style immediately draws in...

September

• Portsoy's Scottish Traditional Boat Festival

  24 September 2013, 19:30 - 23:59

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Fiddle Bus Outing

  21 September 2013, 09:30 - 17:30

  Hosted by the Friends of the Elphinstone Institute. Bus leaves MacRobert Building car park at 09.30am sharp £12.00 members of the Friends of the Elphinstone Institute; £15 non-members North-East Fiddle tunes plus song and other instruments.

July

• The Traditional Singing Weekend at Cullerlie

  26 - 28 July 2013

  A festival to celebrate the singing traditions of Scotland, England, and Ireland in memory of Tom and Anne Reid