Parliamo lads get to Hit The Road

02 PERTH: Ballet - A troubled family’s world is turned upside down when a tiger comes to visit in Barrowland Ballet’s ‘A Tiger’s Tale’ at Perth Theatre from 7pm. Tickets £7.50, concessions £5 from Horsecross box office on 01738 621031.

02 PERTH: Opera - Russian State Opera presents Carmen, sung in French with English subtitles, Perth Concert Hall from 7.30pm. Tickets from £22.50 from 01738 621031.

02 PERTH: Ballet - Tiger Tale, a ballet for children over the age of seven, at Perth Theatre’s Joan Knight Studio. Tickets £7.50, concessions £5, 01738 621031.

03 PERTH: Ballet - Playful Tiger, a ballet for children with profound autism at Perth Theatre’s Joan Knight Studio. Tickets £7.50, carers £5, 01738 621031.

03 PERTH: Music - Traditional acoustic folk, The Postbox,from 8.30pm, entry is free.

03 PERTH: Music - Traditional acoustic folk sessions at The Postbox cellar bar. Music from 8.30pm, entry is free.

03 PERTH: Ballet - Playful Tiger, a ballet for children with profound autism at Perth Theatre’s Joan Knight Studio. Tickets £7.50, carers £5 from Horsecross box office on 01738 621031.

03 CRIEFF: Music - Raphael Wallfisch (cello) and John York (piano), two international giants of the classical music world, St Andrew’s Hall, 7.30pm. Tickets on the door.

03 PERTH: Music - Horsecross Voices play songs from around the world with Billy Henderson at Perth Concert Hall from 7.30pm. Tickets £4.50, concessions £3.50 from Horsecross box office on 01738 621031.

04 PERTH: Film - Perth Film Society screens French drama ‘Aurore’ at Perth Theatre from 7.45pm. Tickets £6, concessions £5 from the Horsecross box office on 01738 621031.

04 BIRNAM: Theatre - Shackleton’s Carpenter, a play by Gail Louw on the role carpenter Harry McNish played in saving the 28 men who were stranded in Antarctica after Shackleton’s Endurance was destroyed, at Birnam Arts. Curtain up at 7.30pm, tickets £12, concessions £10, under 26s £5 from the box office on 01350 727674.

05 BLAIRGOWRIE: Talk - Inaugural EW Pugin lecture, St Stephen’s Church, Blairgowrie, 3pm. Dr Gerald Hyland of the Pugin Society will deliver the lecture, which is aimed at students and professionals of architecture, heritage and the built environment, as well as members of civic and other societies. He will highlight the importance of the Gothic revival in EW Pugin’s design. Light refreshPerth, ments will follow. No charge but donations would be gratefully accepted. 05 PERTH: Music - Smashed at The Twa Tams, with heavy metal and rock bands Darkness Divine, The Colony and Concrete Kingdoms. Music from 9pm, over 18s only. Some competition prizes may be age-related.

05 PERTH: Music - “You win again”, celebrating the music of The Bee Gees at Perth Concert Hall from 7.30pm. Tickets £27.50 from the Horsecross box office on 01738 621031.

05-07 BLAIRGOWRIE: Event - BOOKMARK Blairgowrie, Rattray and the Glens book festival, Blairgowrie Community Campus. Featuring former MP Alan Johnson, Isla Dewar, Denise Mina, Allan Massie, Bill Jones, Elizabeth Crawford, Rosemary Goring and a celebration of 100 years of one of Scotland’s best-loved authors, Muriel Spark with sessions with Alan Taylor, Rosemary Goring, Stewart Conn and Gerda Stevenson. Tickets available now from Blairgowrie Library, telephone 01250 871305, Waterstones in Perth, telephone 01738 630013, the BOOKMARK membership secretary on 01250 875613, Horsecross Arts on 01738 621031 or the Perth Concert Hall box office, or online at www. horsecross.co.uk or www.bookmarkblair.com

06 PERTH: Music - Rhumba celebrates its 27th birthday at The Bank with DJs playing in the main room, mezzanine bar and bank bar from 8pm until 3am. Tickets £17 from www.rhumba-club.ticketlight.co.uk or from The Bank or Manifesto clothing.

06 PERTH: Music - Eight-piece ska band Pork Pie play at Perth Civil Service Club. The band will play classic hits from The Specials, Bad

Perth band Parliamo are going on a three city tour this month, backed by the Hit The Road music initiative. They play the Green Room in Perth on Sunday, Oct ober 7 Manners, Madness and The Beat. Music from 8pm, tickets £10 from the bar.

06, 07 DUNKELD: Event - Dunkeld and Birnam Art and Crafts Fair, The Drill Hall, The Cross, Dunkeld, 10am to 5pm each day. Demonstrations of woodcarving and chair re-caning, new exhibits include amazing cushions and homeware and seaglass jewellery. Free entry.

07 SCONE: Event - Scottish Tree Festival at Scone Palace. Head gardener Brian Cunningham will give a tour of the palace’s tree collection at 11am. Tickets £11 and meet at the front door at 10.50am. Tickets from www.scone-palaceshop.com

07 PERTH: Music - Marti Pellow plays Perth Concert Hall from 7pm. Tickets £41 from the Horsecross box office on 01738 621031. Over 14s only.

07 PERTH: Music - Top Scottish folk musician Richard Thompson brings his 13 Rivers tour to Perth Concert Hall as part of the Celtic Sessions, with support from Joan Shelley. Tickets from £27.50 from Horsecross box office on 01738 621031. Music starts at 7.30pm.

07 SCONE: Event - Garden tours at Scone Palace as part of the Scottish Tree Festival. Running from 11am until 1pm, tours will be led by head gardener Brian Cunningham. Tickets from www.scone-palaceshop.co.uk

07 BIRNAM: Talk - ‘And another thing ... in her own words 2’, playwright Lesley Wilson has gathered stories from Rivendell Care Home, which she will share at Birnam Arts. Performance at 2pm, tickets £9, concessions £7, under 26s £5 and includes a cuppa and a cake. Free for Rivendell residents and staff. Tickets from the box office on 01350 727674. 07 PERTH: Music - Hit the Road a youth music touring project for musicians between the ages of 14 and 19, presents Parliamo, The Medinas and Black Dove at the Green Room. Music from 7pm, tickets £4 from https://www.skiddle. com/whats-on/Perth/The-GreenRoom/Hit-The-Road-Perth-Parliamo-Black-Dove--TheMedinas/13318834/ Over 14s only

08 PERTH: Music - Katie Whittaker sings Etta James with support from Chris Small at The Monday Night Thing, Perth Theatre’s Joan Knight Studio from 8pm. Tickets £13.50, concessions £11.50 from Horsecross box office on 01738 621031.

08 PERTH: Music - Scottish Ensemble plays Mozart and Brahms with Matthew Hunt on clarinet at Perth Concert Hall from 1pm. Tickets £9 and concessions £8, or £10 on the day from Horsecross box office on 01738 621031.

09 PERTH: Talk - Perth Burns Club, ‘Robert Burns’ First Edition: Kilmarnock 1786’ lecture given by Bill Dawson, Salutation Hotel, 7.30pm. Non-members may attend free.

09 PERTH: Talk - Sir John Lister-Kaye will speak on ‘a natural life’ on the wonders of nature and growing up in the Scottish Highlands from 7.30pm at the Salutation Hotel. Tickets £11.37 from EventBrite.

09 PERTH: Dance - Step out to enjoy a tea dance in lively company, Moncreiffe Church Hall, Glenbruar Crescent, 1.30pm-3.30pm. Entry £2.50. Contact Margaret, 01738 441297.

09 CRIEFF: Film - Strathearn Film and Book Club - The Mountain Between Us, based on the novel by Charles Martin and starring Idris Elba and Kate Winslet. Two strangers become stranded on a remote, snow-covered

11-13 PERTH: Theatre - Ad Lib Theatre Arts’ junior class will perform the hit musical Hairspray at North Inch Community Campus. Performances at 7pm with a Saturday matinee at 1.30pm. Tickets from www.ticketsource.co.uk/ adlibtheatre

12 KINROSS: Music - Roddy Woomble, Backstage at the Green Hotel, 8pm. Tickets £20, www. mundellmusic.com

12 CRIEFF: Drama - Letters Please, a new collection of light-hearted quotes and quips compiled by John Cummings for Crieff Drama Group’s annual rehearsed readings. 7.30pm at the Red Squirrel Cafe. Tickets £5 from the Drovers’ Tryst website or direct from the Red Squirrel Cafe.

12 PERTH: Music - Lost in Vancouver play The Green Room with support from Spynn and Luna the Professor. Music from 8.45pm, tickets £4 on the door or £2 for those with guestlist or student cards.

12 PERTH: Talk - Dr Alison Sheridan will talk on ‘green treasures from the magic mountains’ to mark 70 years of archaeology and history at the Perthshire Society of Natural Science. Talk held at the Soutar Theatre, AK Bell Library from 7.30pm, tickets £7 from EventBrite.

12 PERTH: Art - Swedish artist Carina Ekdahl Prigmore holds her first major solo show, ‘following the seasons’ Frames Gallery. Free. www. framesgallery.go.uk/buy/by-artist/ carina-prigmore/

13 PERTH: Event - Variety night for still born charity SANDS. Acts include X Factor singer, burlesque dancer, dance crew, drag queen and a piper, Bar 44, 8pm. Tickets £10.

13 PITLOCHRY: Event - Gallery 2 craft fair, offering a great selection of unusual crafts, The Atholl Centre,10am-5pm. Free entry.

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