Will you be going to Graceland?
02 PERTH: Music - St John’s Music welcomes John Riley from Edinburgh for an organ recital, including improvisations on submitted themes, St John’s Kirk, 1pm. Free admission, retiring collection.
02 PERTH: Music - Caledonia singer, Dougie Maclean plays a solo concert at Perth Concert Hall. Music from 8pm, tickets £25 from the Horsecross Arts box office on 01738 621031.
02 PERTH: Music - Awkward Family Portraits play live at the Twa Tams on their ‘Everything we’ve done up until now, except what we’ve done since’ album tour. Music from 9pm, entry is free.
02 KINROSS: Music - Home-Bru Concert at Kinross Parish Church, an afternoon of music by local talent of all ages. Music starts at 3pm, entry is free.
02 PERTH: Market - Perth Farmers’ Market on King Edward Street and High Street from 9am until 2pm. Entry is free.
02 PERTH: Music - Michelle Steele sings live at Perth Civil Service Club. Music from 8.30pm, entry is free for club members and their guests.
02-03 GLENDOICK: Event - Festive food tasting at Glendoick Garden Centre from 10am until 4pm. Entry is free.
02-03 KINROSS: Event - RSPB optics weekend at RSPB Loch Leven. Get hands on advice on binoculars and telescopes, entry is free.
03 PERTH: Event - Fireworks night at Craigie Hill Golf Club. Food from 5pm, fireworks display at 6.30pm. Tickets £10, children £5.
03 ABERFELDY: Film - Heartland Film Society screens ‘Capernaum’, a film about a runaway girl on the streets of Beirut, 2018, certificate 15, Birks Cinema. Normal Birks ticket prices apply for non members. 03 BLAIRGOWRIE: Art - ‘The carrying stream’, an art and sound installation, at the Wellmeadow. Screening from 5pm until 7pm, entry is free.
04 KINROSS: Music - Glenfarg Folk Club’s Sandy Watt Quaich annual song competition, singers will make visitors laugh, cry and enjoy the power of music, Backstage Bar at the Green Hotel, doors 7pm, music from 8pm. Entry £3.
04 INCHYRA: Music - Barbara Dickson performs live at The Byre at Inchyra. Show starts at 8pm, tickets £28 from www.inchyraartsclub.co. uk/products/barbara-dickson Over 12s only.
04 PERTH: Music - Brodsky String Quartet plays Britten, Schostakovitch and Beethoven at St John’s Kirk. Music from 7.30pm, tickets £15.50, East of Scotland Music Club members £10.50, students and disabled £3 from the Horsecross Arts box office on 01738 621031.
04 PERTH: Music - Giuseppe Guarrera plays a lunchtime piano recital at Perth Concert Hall, including Bach, Busoni, Scriabin, Chopin and Ravel. Music from 1pm, tickets £10, concessions £9 or £11 on the day from the Horsecross Arts box office on 01738 621031.
05 PERTH: Event - Bonfire Night at the South Inch with a bonfire and a fireworks display. The bonfire will be lit at 7pm and the fireworks will be at 7.30pm. Entry is free, donations to Perth Strathearn Round Table welcomed.
05 PERTH: Music - Steve Steinman’s Anything For Love: The Meat Loaf Story at Perth Concert Hall. Music from 7.30pm, tickets £33, concessions £31 from the Horsecross Arts box office on 01738 621031.
05 PERTH: Film - Live screening of The Royal Ballet’s Concerto, Enigma Variations and Raymonda Act III at Perth Playhouse. Screening starts at
Friday night is going to be full of colour and sound at Perth Concert Hall, where on November 1, from 7.30pm, there will be a celebration of Paul Simon’s‘Graceland’ album, performed live by Josh Turner and the South African Cultural Gospel Choir. Tickets £31.50, concessions £29.50 from the Horsecross Arts box office on 01738 621031. 7.15pm, tickets from www.perthplayhouse.co.uk
07 PERTH: Film - Live screening of the National Theatre’s Hansard at Perth Playhouse. Screening starts at 7pm, tickets £17.50, concessions £15 from www.perthplayhouse.co.uk
07 PERTH: Music - Sixties Gold at Perth Concert Hall, featuring the music of Herman’s Hermits, The Merseybeats, Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders, The Marmalade and Steve Ellis. Music from 7.30pm, tickets £37.50 from the Horsecross Arts box office on 01738 621031.
07 PERTH: Film - Perth Film Society screens ‘Cold War’ at the Norie-Miller Studio, Perth Concert Hall. Film starts at 7.45pm, tickets £6, concessions £5 from the Horsecross Arts box office on 01738 621031. Film is in Polish with English subtitles.
08 PITLOCHRY: Music - 80s disco night at the Atholl Palace, including a three course dinner. Evening starts at 7pm, tickets £74.50 or £39 for non-residents from 01796 472400 or info@athollpalace.com
08 AUCHTERARDER: Talk - Writer and broadcaster James Crawford will speak for the Innerpeffray Lecture 2019 at Aytoun Hall. Lecture at 7.30pm followed by a book signing, tickets £15 from Innerpeffray Library on 01764 652819.
08 ALYTH: Art - ‘The carrying stream’, an art and sound installation, at Mill Street Park. Screening from 5pm until 7pm, entry is free.
08 PERTH: Talk - Professor Colin McInnes from the University of Glasgow speaks on ‘Engineering in space’, exploring a range of emerging space technologies such as swarns of ‘smart dust’ devices to monitor the space environment for space weather events, for Perthshire Society of Natural Sciences’ Curious Minds series. Talk at Soutar Theatre, AK Bell Library at 7.30pm, entry is £6, society members £2, schools students free.
08 SCONE: Music - Encore’s grand concert at RDM Institute. Music from 7.30pm, entry is £8, children £4 and money in aid of institute funds.
08 ABERFELDY: Event - Ladies night with beauty, shopping, fashion, jewellery, crafts and more, Breadalbane Community Library, 7pm. Tickets £6, from the library 01887 822405.
08 KINROSS: Event - Kinross-shire Entertains, a showcase of local talent and fun at Loch Leven Community Campus. Event from 7pm, tickets £5, under 18s £3 from www.kleo.org.uuk
08 PERTH: Event - City of Perth history and horror tour around the streets of Perth. Tour leaves from Horsecross Plaza at 8pm.
08-10 SCONE: Market - Galloway Antiques Fair at Scone Palace with furniture, porcelain, glass, silver, jewellery, mirrors, sculpture, oriental rugs and carpets from the early Georgian period to the 1930s. Market from 10.30am until 5pm on Saturday, 10.30am until 4.30pm on Sunday, entry is £6, children free.
08-30 PERTH: Art - Perthshire Art Association’s annual exhibition at Perth Museum and Art Gallery with invited artist Arthur Watson. Entry is free.
09 DUNKELD: Event - Dunkeld history and horror tour around the streets of Dunkeld. Tour leaves from The Cross at 8pm, contact 07840094667.
09 ABERFELDY: Event - Cafe Books, a monthly drop-in for avid readers with suggestions for what would be a good next book, at the Breadalbane Community Library, 11am. Free.
09 PITLOCHRY: Music - March into Pitlochry’s launch night at McKays with live music from Sara ‘n’ Junbug and Bohemian Monk Machine. Music from 8pm.
09 BANKFOOT: Market - Craft fayre at Bankfoot Church Centre from 10.30am until 2pm. Entry and parking is free.
09 CRIEFF: Drama - Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s touring production of Brian Friel’s play, Faith Healer. Strathearn Artspace.
09 BLAIRGOWRIE: Children - As part of the Hamish Matters festival on the poet Hamish Henderson to mark the centenary of his birth, there is a special Bookbug in Scots and Gaelic, followed by readings by Thomas Clark from ‘Diary of a Wimpy Wean’, his funny take on the famous ‘Dairy of a Wimpy Kid’, Blairgowrie Library, 10.30am-12.30pm. Free, booking essential via Eventbrite or call 01250 871305.
09 PITLOCHRY: Music - Be My Baby, a Dirty Dancing and Grease tribute night at the Atholl Palace. Evening begins at 7pm with drinks in the Bow Lounge before dinner and entertainment in the Atholl Suite, tickets cost £99, £49 for non-residents from 01796 472400 or info@athollpalace. com
09 PERTH: Film - Live screening of The Met Opera’s Madama Butterfly at Perth Playhouse. Screening starts at 5.55pm, tickets £17.50, concessions £15 from www.perthplayhouse.co.uk
09 PERTH: Music - Perth Symphony Orchestra plays music from Mozart, Brahms and Mendelssohn at Perth Concert Hall. Music from 7.30pm, tickets £15, concessions £13 from the Horsecross Arts box office on 01738 621031.