Music night for all

The sounds of Broadway and the West End are coming to St Ninians later this month in a fund-raising concert.

Friday Night is Music Night takes place at St Ninians Old Parish Church on Friday, March 22 at 7.30pm.

The concert will include songs and music from all the great musicals from Les Miserables and Miss Saigon to My Fair Lady and Showboat and features singers Ken Christie, Anne Fraser, Robert Fyfe, Aileen Johnston, J Campbell Kerr, Lewis Kerr, Ross Nicol, Susan B Russell, Tom Russell and Holly Steel.

Tickets £10 are available from Ken Christie on 01786 472756 and Mary Jenkins on 01786 462228.

Stirling band The Fakes will feature in the ‘Anchor Rocks III’ line-up along with three-piece punk outfit Crimedesk. ‘Garage blues’ band

Sonic Blues, from Falkirk, and The Clash tribute band Stay Free, from Cumbernauld, will also play.

Gus Copland of the Anchor Bar said: “Playing in a band myself I realised many years ago there are no small venues for live music in or around Stirling. We have The Tolbooth and the Albert Halls which do what they do, and do it well, but what we lack in my opinion is a small, intimate, band-in-yer-face venue like Glasgow’s Box or Nice N Sleazy, Edinburgh’s Bannerman’s or Whistlebinkies.

“Both Dundee and Dumfermline have vibrant music scenes, Inverness also. Could Stirling have a successful, happening, cool, live venue? Well it’s early days but this will be the third gig we have put on under the Anchor Rocks banner and they are proving very popular.

“So far they have been busy, busier