Rothiemurchus “Showcase” event for 3rd October cancelled.

Message from Cath Cargill:

Good evening, all. Rather disappointing news from us, which is that Stuart and I have been following the weather forecasts for tomorrow and Saturday, and, after consultation with Friday’s performers’ music teachers (and some of their family members) this evening, we have decided it’s safest to postpone tomorrow’s concert until the spring. The Met Office UK has issued Amber warnings for strong winds and heavy rain as part of Storm Amy, and since our venue at St John’s is in woodland, and all of our young musicians due to perform (as well as our likely audience members)  had some distance to travel from elsewhere in the Strath, we felt we shouldn’t be requiring anyone to make the journey. We apologise to everyone who has been practising hard and looking forward to the evening, and we hope to reschedule the concert for the next season, probably as the April concert starting the year. 

Meanwhile, our concert on October 31st this year, the last of the 2024 season, looks like being a real treat, with ‘Reekie to Rothiemurchus’, a programme performed by a musical partnership between two longstanding friends based in very different regions of Scotland. Jill Henderson, who was for many years a music therapist and teacher in Special Schools in England and then Scotland, will already be known to many of you as a gifted violinist and also a nature conservation volunteer. This will be her second appearance in one of our concerts. Her friend Marion Lees McPherson, now a distinguished church organist in Edinburgh, has had a varied career which included singing in a support act for Bob Marley and the Wailers and then playing bass in a feminist rock band in Stepney in her youth, as well as composing music for TV and playing the piano for Scottish Ballet. So their concert in Rothiemurchus will include items for organ solo, plus organ duets with violin, by composers including Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart and Handel and some Scottish traditional surprises too. If you haven’t got this one in your diary already… do add it!