Following on from the tremendous sell-out gig last week featuring the Barra MacNeills, Ardross Hall plays host to more talented traditional musicians on Saturday 24 September when Duncan Chisholm and Ivan Drever come to perform their dynamic mix of fiddle, guitar and song.  The performance starts at 8.00pm and you are welcome to bring along a bottle and enjoy the music. Tickets cost £8/6 and can be booked in advance on 01349 880591.

In October the focus at Ardross Hall will move from music to drama with a performance on Wednesday 5th by Mull Theatre of the first ever stage adaptations of the popular Katie Morag stories written by Ross-shire Mairi Hedderwick. 

Katie Morag McColl may live on the tiny, weather-beaten island of Struay but the realities of life are relevant for any child - badly behaved cousins, competitive Grannies, sibling jealousy..... There's plenty of mischief to get up to, and Katie Morag is always up to something!  The show starts at 6.30pm and tickets cost £3.50 or £12 for a family ticket for 4. Tickets are already selling like hot cakes so we expect this show to be sold out soon. To book tickets go to www.thebooth.co.uk  or telephone 01349 880591.

There will be more drama later in the month when Magnetic North Theatre Company visit Ardross for the first time on Saturday 15 October to present Tom McGrath’s new witty and moving play, My Old Man.

Sam Macreadie, king of the cruise ships is back… he just can’t remember why. His daughter is resentful of his long absence from her life and he has a grandson he has never met. As Sam tries to piece together a new life from the fragments of his old one he realizes that you can’t escape the past Witty, invigorating and moving. Starts 8.00pm and tickets are £6/4 and can be booked now on www.thebooth.co.uk  

Also in October, as part of Highland Archaeology Fortnight, Hilary White will come to speak about local finds, from the wolf and deer carvings found at Stittenham more than a century ago to the Bronze Age forest that has just been discovered underneath the access road to the new wind farm on Beinn Tharsuinn. She will also show, how the Highland Council's Sites and Monuments Record is kept and constantly pdated, and demonstrate the way in which we as individuals can access the wealth of information it contains. This event takes place on Tuesday 11 October at 7.30pm and admission is free.