Humour at The Venue with Des
clipper ship ‘City of Adelaide’. Rita travelled with the 1864 clipper on board a cargo ship on a 22,000km voyage to Australia, Innerpeffray Library schoolroom, 7pm for 7.30pm.Tickets: £5 for FOIL members, £7 for guests. All are welcome.
09 BLAIRGOWRIE: Drama - The Blairgowrie Players will perform ‘Radio Play: Whisky Galore’, a story following a group of five actors in a BBC radio studio preparing to take on the 27 characters in a version of ‘Whisky Galore’, part of the It’s Braw! festival.Tickets £12, which includes a light supper, and can be brought from The Card Gallery, by calling 01250 876444, or by emailing blairplayers@btinternet.com
9 PERTH: Workshop – Community Weaving Day at Perth Museum and Art Gallery. Experience what it was like to be part of the weaving guild. With expert guidance from Perth Festival of Yarn, drop in and have a go on a loom, learn traditional weaving techniques and help create a community cloth. Noon-4pm. All ages. Free, booking not required. www.culturepk.org.uk
10 PERTH: Event - Blend in, Stand out at BLEND coffee lounge. Local acts performing poetry slam and music, hosted by spoken word artist Rana Marathon. BYOB and raffle from 6.30pm.
10 PERTH: Music - Folkin Shenanigans plays live, Auld Hoose, 9pm. Free entry.
10 PITLOCHRY: Music - Glasgow singer-songwriter Jono plays an eclectic mix of old and new hits at The Old Mill. Music from 9pm, entry is free.
11 BLAIRGOWRIE: Music - ‘Folk in Blair - Bob Stewart and Friends’ live, Bob, Hamish MacGregor, Andrew Gordon, Stuart and Stewart and piper AJ MacGregor play traditional music, Blairgowrie Town Hall, doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start. Tickets £10 or £8 for concessions. See www.itsbraw.scot
11 BLAIRGOWRIE: Science - ‘Really Interesting Experience’, featuring a range of local artefacts including items from Adamson’s jam factory, as well as Egyptian, Greek and stone age material, also featuring a Taste of Blair, with some of the many local food and drink companies, interactive entertainment for children, 11am to 3pm Blairgowrie Town Hall. Entry is free.
11 PERTH: Music - Karaoke with Billy Tully, Auld Hoose, 8.30pm. Free.
11 PERTH: Music - Alternative rock band from Perth Stop the Rain perform at The Green Room with support from Whitehill Grove. Music from 9pm and entry is free.
11 PITLOCHRY: Music - Kinky Karma from the Highlands play hits from the 80s to the present at The Old Mill. Music from 9pm, entry is free.
11 PERTH: Comedy - Des McLean does stand-up at The Venue from 8pm. Tickets £10 from www.ticketsource.co.uk
11 PERTH: Event - The first ever Perthshire Pride will be held on Horsecross Plaza with live music, stalls, food and speakers celebrating the region’s LGBT community from 1pm. An after party at Bar 44 will be held from 8pm.
11 PERTH: Event - Medieval fayre across the city centre with re-enactments, music and traditional medieval food throughout the day.
11,12 RATTRAY: Rattray Arts Festival, August 11 and 12 in Rattray Church Hall, guest artists this year are Keith Brown, Liz Dulley and Johnathan Mitchell from Alyth. There will be workshops in oil painting, water colours, weaving, poetry with local poet Jim Mackintosh, needle felting, silversmithing, patchwork and quilting, furniture painting, street art-inspired posters for kids and drawing, see www.itsbraw.scot
12 BLAIRGOWRIE: Event - It’s BRAW festival, ‘Poetry, Pie and Pint’ with poets Jim Mackintosh, Jon Plunkett and musician Hamish McGregor, Cargill’s Bistro, 3pm.
12 PERTH: Perth Highland Games will take place at Scone Palace with a mix of piping, heavyweight competitions, cycling and running, Highland dancing, gift stalls, solo piping and the very popular pipe band contest with large numbers of overseas bands taking part. On from 9am-5pm.
12 PERTH: Event - Perth Pet Care, Doggy Day Care are having a ‘wrinkle riot’ party for all pugs, Frenchies and Boston terriers. Tickets £8 per person with a max of two dogs per owner on sale now. Anyone under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Contact Perth Pet Care on 01738 476476 or pop in to buy your ticket.
12 PITLOCHRY: Drama - ‘Once Upon a Crime’, youngsters from Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s dance and drama summer schools will perform in the theatre at 2pm. Tickets from the box office on 01796 484626.
12 PERTH: Music - Perth singer, Kenneth Maciver headlines a concert of opera, songs from the shows and Scottish numbers, supported by fellow Jambouree singers Liam Bonthrone, Moira Duncan and Teenah Bee, St Leonard’s in the Fields Church, 7.30pm. Free entry, although donations of £10 or more suggested.
12 LUNCARTY: Event – Summer fun messy church in Luncarty Church Centre, 3pm-5pm followed by a family supper. Entry free, although donations are very welcome.
15 DUNKELD: Music - Acoustic music night at Butterstone Village Hall.
18 BRIDGE OF EARN: Music - The Mad Ferret Band, a mix of traditional and contemporary folk music at the Institute with support acts. Doors at 7pm. Tickets £10 from www.themadferretband.com
19 CRIEFF: Highland games - Crieff Highland Gathering will be held in the town’s Market Park.
24 PERTH: Music - Three’s Company plays live, Auld Hoose, 9pm. Free entry.
24 PITLOCHRY: Music - Gav Munro from The Red Pine Timber Company plays an acoustic set at The Old Mill. Music from 9pm, entry is free.
25 PITLOCHRY: Dance and live music - Scottish country dancing, Colin Dewar’s Band, Pitlochry Town Hall 7.30pm. Dancers £7, spectators £2.
25 RAIT: Highland Games - Glen of Rait Games from 1pm with original events and new attractions. Tickets £5, children £2.50, under fives free.
25 KIRKMICHAEL: Highland games Strathardle Highland Games, Bannerfield.
25 BIRNAM: Highland games Birnam Highland Games will be held in Little Dunkeld games field.
25 PERTH: Music - Karaoke with Billy Tully, Auld Hoose, 8.30pm. Free entry.
25 STANLEY: Music - The Solid Gold Band will perform their relaunch gig at the Tayside Hotel. Tickets cost £5 from the hotel or by calling 01738 828249.
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