Author: Archie Fergusson

  First full day of Dunoon book Festival after an excellent Friday night start with a packed house for crime writer Denise Mina’s fascinating account the famous and notorious murderer Peter Manuel….a great start to what promises to be a great weekend

  Dunoon Community Radio Favourites Vemodalen have been invited to play a short set @ Dunoon’s Book Festival hosted by Dunoon Presents on Saturday 29th October after the 7.00pm appearance of Tom Russell Legendary rock DJ, Tom Russell, gives us a behind the scenes look at his life in rock and radio. He uncovered some of the […]

For many reasons we know it’s not to everyone’s taste and even to the despair of some folk but this weekend a lot of folk from our community will be taking part in Hallowe’en Happenings and there is certainly lots of happenings. Friday 7.00pm at Glenbranter Forrest and the Halloween Happenings kicks everything of with […]

 A full weekend of top Scottish literary talent including local writers, illustrators and poets will be attending the prestigious Dunoon Book Festival this weekend on the beautifully refurbished Dunoon Pier, including the Scots Makar, Jackie Kay and local poets Marion McCready and Tariq Latif . The full programme has something for all ages and taste and […]

  Thursday Traditional Gold Medal competition winners were Claire Macauley (Claire Nicamhlaigh), and Torquil MacLeod

The Massed Choir will assemble at Stornoway Town Hall tomorrow at 12.00pm  before making thiere  way to the Nicolson Institute for a final sing-a-long, before Mòd goers make for their flights and ferries home. CalMac have also put on additional ferry crossings from Lewis on Saturday to accommodate the volume of traffic leaving Stornoway from […]

We have so quickly come to the final day of competitions for this year, the area choirs will compete in the highly anticipated Lovat and Tullibardine Trophy and Margrat Duncan Memorial Trophy at the Lewis Sports Centre. Stornoway Town Hall will hold the ladies area choir competition and the Nicolson Institute will host the men’s […]

As the Royal National Mòd reaches its final day of competitions in the Western Isles, it has been announced that Inverness will host the Mòd in 2020. Scotland’s biggest Gaelic cultural festival will return to the capital of the Highlands for the first time since 2014. Provost of Inverness Councillor Helen Carmichael said: “I am […]

The Royal National Mòd (Am Mòd Nàiseanta Rìoghail) continued today (Thursday 20th October) here in Stornoway in  the Western Isles with  the Rural Choirs taking to the stage. The coveted Gold Medal competition took place yesterday evening, with Carol Maclean and Hector MacKechnie walking away with the awards. Carol had travelled from Mull, whilst Hector came from Lochaline to […]