Festival Events Diary

Here, you can view all the events for the forthcoming Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival. Events are partly sponsored by the Dumfries and Galloway Festivals and Events Tourism Challenge Fund.

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	Date (dd/mm/yyyy)  Event Type Select... Buffet Supper Childrens Comedy Dance Drama Drama/Music Family Event Film Folk Jazz Lecture Linked Event Literature Music Musical Theatre Open Mic Concert Rock & Pop Rural Round Supper Visual Arts  Event Title  Artist  Venue Show All 22/05/2009 Drama/Music World Premiere - Of a' the Airts - Robert Burns, the Dumfries Years (e.1) Music provided by Rod Paterson, Lionel McLelland and Gill Bowman Theatre Royal, Shakespeare Street, Dumfries DG1 2JH 22/05/2009 Drama Scottish Touring Premiere of Sister Queens (e.2) Play on Words Theatre. Written and performed by Miriam Cooper Dundrennan Village Hall, Dundrennan. 22/05/2009 Music Qawali Sham Sufi Group (e.3) The CatStrand, New Galloway DG7 3RN 23/05/2009 Comedy Phil Kay (e.5) The CatStrand, New Galloway DG7 3RN 23/05/2009 Music The Banana Sessions (e.6) The Marquee Club, Craigdarroch Arms Hotel, High Street, Moniaive, Nr. Thornhill DG3 4HN 23/05/2009 Drama Second Scottish Performance of Sister Queens (e.4) Play on Words Theatre. Written and performed by Miriam Cooper Bridgend Theatre, Market Square, Dumfries 23/05/2009 Childrens Lighter than Air (e.28) Circo Ridiculoso Lochside Theatre, Lochside Road, Castle Douglas DG7 1EU 23/05/2009 Childrens Organ Magic! And Mr. Majeika and the Magic Organ (e.29) Music by Bob Chilcott. Story by Humphrey Carpenter St.John's Scottish Episcopal Church, Lovers' Walk, Dumfries DG1 1LW 23/05/2009 Childrens Organ Magic! And Mr. Majeika and the Magic Organ (e.30) Music by Bob Chilcott. Story by Humphrey Carpenter St. Andrews Church, Moffat 23/05/2009 Childrens Phil Kay - Gimme Your Left Shoe (e.31) Phil Kay The CatStrand, New Galloway DG7 3RN 23/05/2009 Childrens Shopping for Shoes (e.32) Visible Fictions Sanquhar Town Hall, Church Road, Sanquhar DG4 6DF 24/05/2009 Music Emma Johnson Clarinet and Pascal Roge Piano (e.7) St. George's Church, 50 George Street, Dumfries DG1 1EJ 24/05/2009 Childrens Lighter than Air (e.33) Circo Ridiculoso Brigend Theatre, Market Square Dumfries DG2 7AE 24/05/2009 Literature Aspects of Burns: The Merry Muses of Caledonia (e.8) with Pauline Gray, The CatStrand, New Galloway DG7 3RN 25/05/2009 Folk The Carrivick Sisters (e.10) Colvend Public Hall, Colvend, By Dalbeattie DG5 4PU 25/05/2009 Drama Captain Corelli's Mandolin (e.9) Adapted by Mike Maran and Philip Contini with the kind permission of Louis de Bernieres Theatre Royal, Shakespeare Street, Dumfries 25/05/2009 Drama Moll Flanders (e.11) Brute Farce Theatre Old Well Theatre, Old Well Road, Moffat DG10 9AP 26/05/2009 Comedy Stones in his Pockets (e.12) by Marie Jones with Malcolm Adams and Hugh Lee Theatre Royal, Shakespeare Street, Dumfries DG1 2JH 26/05/2009 Drama Moll Flanders (e.15) Brute Farce Theatre The Buccleuch Centre, Buccleuch Square, Langholm DG13 0AW 26/05/2009 Folk Doghouse Roses and Wing and a Prayer (e.14) Doghouse Roses are Paul Tasker (Guitar/Vocals) & Iona Macdonald (Vocals/Guitar) Wing and a Prayer are Dave Dick and Jim Gilbert Kirkpatrick Durham Community Hall, Victoria Street, Kirkpatrick Durham, Nr. Castle Douglas 26/05/2009 Folk The Carrivick Sisters (e.16) Kirkmichael Parish Hall, Parkgate DG1 3NN 26/05/2009 Film Whisky Galore! and a Whisky Tasting Dir. Alexander Mackendrick, UK, 1949, 82min, black and white. Cast: Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Jean Cadell Robert Burns Centre, Mill Road, Dumfries DG2 7BE 26/05/2009 Literature Aspects of Burns: 'Let caution be damn'd': Robert Burns, Alexander Goudie and Tam o' Shanter (e.13) with Professor Alan Riach Main lecture Theatre, Rutherford McCowan Building, The Crichton, Bankend Road, Dumfries DG1 4TH 27/05/2009 Folk The Carrivick Sisters (e.22) Shawhead Village Hall, Shawhead, By Dumfries DG2 9SL 27/05/2009 Music Solstice String Quartet (e.18) Jamie Campbell - First Violin, Nicholas Shardlow - Second Violin, Meghan Cassidy - Viola, Gregor Riddell - Cello Broughton House, 12 High Street, Kirkcudbright 27/05/2009 Folk Doghouse Roses and Wing and a Prayer (e.21) Doghouse Roses are Paul Tasker (Guitar/Vocals) & Iona Macdonald (Vocals/Guitar) Wing and a Prayer are Dave Dick and Jim Gilbert Wanlockhead Community Centre, Wanlockhead, Nr Bigger ML12 6UT 27/05/2009 Music The Scottish Chamber Orchestra (e.17) Nicholas Kraemer - conductor/harpsichord, Peter Whelan - bassoon The Buccleuch Centre, Buccleuch Square, Langholm DG13 0AW 27/05/2009 Drama Moll Flanders (e.20) Brute Farce Theatre Birchvale Theatre, Southwick Road, Dalbeattie DG5 4AR 27/05/2009 Jazz Quattro MacJazz (e.19) Forrie Cairns on Clarinet, Alastair McDonald on Banjo and Vocals, Lennie Herd on Trumpet and Roy Percy on Bass Woodland House Hotel, Newbridge, Dumfries 28/05/2009 Jazz Swinging Supper 'The Alex Yellowlees Hot Club Quartet' Casa Mia Restaurant, 53 Nunholm Road, Dumfries 28/05/2009 Music Solstice String Quartet Lunchtime Concert Jamie Campbell - First Violin, Nicholas Shardlow - Second Violin, Meghan Cassidy - Viola, Gregor Riddell - Cello Robert Burns Centre, Mill Road, Dumfries DG2 7BE 28/05/2009 Literature Aspects of Burns: What killed the poet and what did not (e.24) Professor David Purdie Broughton House, 12 High Street, Kirkcudbright DG6 4JX 28/05/2009 Folk New Redwing and a Wing and a Prayer (e.23) New Redwing are Alan, Louise and hazel Mairs. Wing and a Prayer are Dave Dick and Jim Gilbert CatStrand, High Street, New Galloway, Castle Douglas DG7 3RN 29/05/2009 Music The Scottish Chamber Orchestra (e.26) Nicholas Kraemer - conductor/harpsichord, Peter Whelan - bassoon Castle Douglas Town Hall, St.Andrew St., Castle Douglas DG7 1DE 29/05/2009 Music Homecoming - an evening of (e.25) Michael MacKinnon - Bass Baritone, accompanist Raymond Budd and Jung SooYun Tenor, accompanist Peter Cowdry Theatre Royal, Shakespeare Street, Dumfries DG1 2JH 29/05/2009 Literature Aspects of Burns: Uniqueness of Robert Burns (e.27) Professor Douglas Dunn Brigend Theatre, Market Square Dumfries DG2 7AE 29/05/2009 Drama/Music Burns 'n' Bogle Festival, Moniaive Of a' the Airts - Robert Burns, the Dumfries Years Music provided by Rod Paterson, Lionel McLelland and Gill Bowman The Marquee Club, Craigdarroch Arms Hotel, High Street, Moniaive, Nr. Thornhill DG3 4HN 30/05/2009 Folk Burns 'n' Bogle Festival, Moniaive The Waltzing Matilda No More Tour Eric Bogle and John Munro support Jake Cogan Craigdarroch Arms, High Street, Moniaive, Nr.Thornhill DG3 4HN 30/05/2009 Childrens Julie Hegarty (e.34) Author and Illustrator Julie Hegarty Lochthorn Library, Edinburgh Road, Dumfries DG1 1UF 30/05/2009 Childrens The Weatherman (e.35) Giant The CatStrand, New Galloway DG7 3RN 30/05/2009 Drama/Music Burns 'n' Bogle Festival, Moniaive. Toasting The Lassies St.Ninian's Church, North Street, Moniaive. 30/05/2009 Open Mic Concert Burns 'n' Bogle Festival Open Mic. Events The George Hotel, High Street, Moniaive, Nr. Thornhill DG3 4HN 31/05/2009 Open Mic Concert Burns 'n' Bogle Festival Open Mic. Events The Marquee Club, Craigdarroch Arms Hotel, High Street, Moniaive, Nr. Thornhill DG3 4HN