PENICUIK ARTS
CENTRE
SATURDAY 3 DECEMBER ‘05
From
the forests of Northern California
Clarelynn Rose
fireside fingerstyle guitar
& lute
- elegant,
enchanting, exquisite
7.30 upstairs at Arts Centre, tickets
£4 : refreshments
Tickets at door or in advance from Arts Centre
EH26 8HS (01968 678804
Tickets also available from Penicuik library or from the Town Hall on
Open Saturdays
Biography Reviews
WED 23 NOV 2005
PENICUIK TOWN HALL
Mike Maran
& Philip Contini’s
with Colin
Steele , Martin
Green
adapted from the stories of Giovanni Guareschi
adapted by Mike Maran
& Philip Contini
music live on stage by Colin Steele and Martin
Green
set and lighting by John Brown
produced and directed by Mike Maran
Set in a small Italian town in the threadbare years
just after the war, the parish priest, Don Camillo,
and the communist mayor, Peppone, represent the two
poles of Italian life – the Catholic Church and the Communist Party. They stoop
to skulduggery and worse to get one over on the other. But their public show of
hostility conceals a deeper collaboration to
defend a value more important than their respective ideologies – their shared
humanity.
'They ... connect with their audience
on a very personal level like your oldest friends recounting their fondest
memories.' -Theatre Fest
With an original score written and
performed live on stage by Colin Steele and Martin Green, The Little World of
Don Camillo sweeps you off your feet and back fifty
years to the Po Valley and a world full of hope that peace will last.
'the music is a delight' -The Herald
7.30 pm
ticket £8
the little
world of don camillo
Saturday 29th October 2005
Penicuik Community Arts
Association Presents
Fantoosh!
Pauline Salmond,
Graham Macdonald And Jenni Fraser
7.30pm
on Saturday 29th October
Penicuik
Arts Centre, West Street,
Penicuik
contemporary arrangements
of traditional,
jazz
and classical music
Tickets £5.00
SOLD OUT
PENICUIK ARTS CENTRE
FRIDAY 21 OCTOBER 2005
A special showing of
THE SCHOOL CONCERT
(Kooruitvoerning
Stichtse
Vrije
School
15 April 2005)
…extraordinary in the ordinary –a lesson for us all…
classes 8, 9,
10, 11. and 12 with a pianist, two drummers, four string players and three
conductors reveal the sheer joy of group performance, filmed and edited
live by themselves with an audience of parents and friends in Utrecht’s Jacobkirk
selected songs followed by
VIVALDI’S GLORIA
At 7.30 tickets £2 door or advance Arts Centre or Library : refreshments : (01968
678804 eve 677854
Penicuik Arts Centre is at 4 West Street - look for the flag 
PENICUIK
ARTS CENTRE
SATURDAY
15 OCT ‘05
Doors open 7.30 ticket £7
take seats before 8 ; refreshments
4 West Street -by the flag
SATURDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2005
PENICUIK TOWN HALL
Penicuik Trust
presents
Whalestock 2
featuring Whale Engineering, Elkin, Remnant Kings and The Vision
-
the Town
Hall was packed with happy friendly people having a good time!
FRIDAY 16 SEPT 2005 7.30
Penicuik Community Arts Association presents
an illustrated talk by
DAVID HARVIE
PENICUIK ARTS
CENTRE
4 West Street 01968 678804
TICKETS
£3 refreshments
Penicuik Community Arts Association presents
FRIDAY
SEPTEMBER 9TH 2005
Not the Three
Tenors!
An
Evening of opera with
Derek Watson
Arts Centre upstairs at 7.30 pm
26 AUGUST 2005
PENICUIK TOWN HALL
Penicuik
Community Development Trust’s
Ceilidh
dance
A
wonderful sell-out event.
20 JULY 2005
Penicuik Community Development Trust presents
At Penicuik North Kirk 7.30pm £7
Australia’s
COLCANNON
Bring 'joie de vivre' to every performance. If you want a great night of music -
described as "...simply stunning", (The Scotsman) , if you want to laugh and cry, or if
you just want to experience the joy of great musicians who love to perform,
.Colcannon is it. "...Miss them
at your peril".
A Penicuik audience
thrilled to a blistering performance by Australia's Colcannon in the North
Kirk Open Door on Wednesday 20 July. Organised by Penicuik Community
Development Trust with some help from the Folk Club and Penicuik Arts, the gig
was supported by the Open Door's technical team with Trust organiser Stuart
Ritchie on sound. From Adelaide, South Australia, Colcannon delivers a
blend of crackling harmonies and brilliant instrumentals from all members of
the three-girl, two-man team. The band is led by Eric Bogle's
Glasgow-born accompanist John Munro, one of the world's best blue-grass
mandolin players, and features the unmistakable voice of Kat Kraus,
spine-tingling fiddle playing by Emma Luker,
guitarist Peter Titchener and outstanding bassist Jenna Bonavita. With an easy
stage presence, unruffled by the sudden appearance of their record company
manager in the Penicuik audience, the band impressed their listeners with the
humour and the sheer professionalism of their music. The roots are Celtic but
the flavour of this band (www.colcannon.net)
is warmly Australian. A great night for everyone.
CHERNOBYL
CHILDRENS LIFELINE
Visit
to Thornton
Rose Riding for the Disabled
In
July 2005, 17 children from Belarus
spent a sunny Saturday afternoon at Thornton Rose riding the ponies and
enjoying a barbeque along with their host families and our volunteers. A group of 9 – 12yr olds come to Scotland
for a month each year to boost their health. The children live in the area near
Chernobyl
in the former Soviet Union
where there was a terrible nuclear accident in 1986. As a result they have significant health
problems and some are orphans.
It’s
been our pleasure for the past few years to help these special children
experience supervised horse riding in the healthy Scottish countryside. The
children of the host families also get to ride. The group organising the trip
is called Chernobyl Children’s Lifeline.
For
more information: http://www.chernobylchildlifeline.org/
MONDAY 27 JUNE
2005 at 7.30pm
Roger Kelly in association with Penicuik Community
Development Trust at
PENICUIK TOWN HALL
fresh from their concerts at the St Magnus Festival Orkney
JOHN KENNY
& THE CARNYX
WITH DJ CHRIS WHEELER
£7.50
Edinburgh-based John Kenny’s
repertoire runs from ancient and ethnic music to the present day, and he’s as a
concerto soloist with leading orchestras and ensembles, playing trombone and
other instruments . He co-directs Carnyx &
Company (voice / trombone / electronics - music theatre), TNT Music Theatre
Company, the Scot Free improvising ensemble, and the early music group His Ain Draucht Trumpets. He's an
elected Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, and is currently a
professor at both the Royal
Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and the Guildhall School
of Music and Drama. John joined a team of specialists at
the National Museum of Scotland to reconstruct the Deskford
Carnyx. Discovered in Northeast Scotland, this is the
finest example so far discovered of an Iron Age Celtic war horn -the most
splendid and powerful wind instrument of the ancient world. John
became the first person to play the carnyx for 2000
years, and has since lectured and performed on it internationally, in concert
hall, radio, television, and film. In March 2003 he performed solo to an
audience of 65000 in the Stade De France,
Paris. 
Hear John Kenny play trombones,
Polynesian conch, didgeridoo, alphorn, and carnyx,
set into extraordinary soundscapes by sound man Chris
Wheeler in Penicuik Town Hall on Monday June 27. Together Kenny and Wheeler have created
a highly unusual piece: "Doric" from the sounds and images of
the town of Huntly and its distinctive sound
of speech. They will also play Ankh by Scots-born composer Morris
Pert -who we hope will join us in Penicuik from his studio in
Sutherland. Morris Pert has made 'percussion wizard' performances for BrandX (together with Phil Collins, Percy Jones, John Goodsall, Peter Robinson, Robin Lumley),
as well as the writing and playing with Mike Oldfield,
Peter Gabriel, Paul McCartney's Rockestra, Kate Bush,
T. Rex, Elvis Costello and his own bands 'Come to the Edge' and 'Suntreader'. And work with the famous Japanese
percussionist Stomu Yamashta
and the Red Buddha Theatre. As Morris said: "I like to
write music that I haven't heard before."
While still a student, Chris Wheeler began to
develop a career as one of London's hottest young DJs,
working in a wide variety of clubs. He's been assistant
to the legendary sound designer John Whiting, and now acts as an independent
session producer for various record labels. Chris runs his digital
production studio above the infamous 333 club in London, where he composes,
records and mixes a wide variety of music, from beat-based sounds of the club
to intricate electro-acoustics. He’s most well known as the founder and
manager of The Heritage
Orchestra “We want to change the outlook of young classical musicians who
are our age and stop them being channelled into the same old things. It’s about
taking things that are out of place and getting rid of the boundaries. Putting
things next to each other that people think shouldn’t work and making them work.” The first of
the Heritage club nights was held at Cargo in East London back in January 2004.
PENICUIK ARTS CENTRE
TUESDAY 14 JUNE 2005
John Clerk of
Penicuik
and the music of the Edinburgh Enlightenment
: An ILLUSTRATED
TALK BY DAVID JOHNSON :
Preceded by refreshments and a short AGM reviewing
work of the Arts Association at 7pm
David Johnson’s talk with music starts at 8pm Tickets £4 (01968 678804
Penicuik Arts Centre is at 4 West Street alongside the Belgian
Consulate -look for the flag
PENICUIK ARTS CENTRE
FRIDAY 3 JUNE 2005
ONE GLASS EYE
FROM THE ACOUSTIC
MUSIC SCENE ROUND INNERLEITHEN
THAT PRODUCED THE BARRELSCRAPERS AND LAST BUS HOME , ONE GLASS EYE EXPLORES
THE MELODIES AND RHYTHMS OF EASTERN EUROPE. JEWISH KLEZMER AND BULGARIAN DANCE MUSIC ARE
SPECIAL INFLUENCES . LAUNCHED AT CELTIC CONNECTIONS IN
JANUARY, ONE GLASS EYE ALREADY ATTRACTS NATIONAL PRESS COVERAGE.
doors open
7.30 take seats by 8.
Tickets £5 at
door or in advance : refreshments : (01968
678804
Penicuik Arts Centre is at 4 West Street alongside the Belgian
Consulate -look for the flag
PENICUIK ARTS CENTRE
THURSDAY 5 MAY ‘05
singing group
JAMMIES
The Jammies formed two years ago in May 2003. Their name suggests they enjoy ‘jamming’-
improvising with voices –and that they feel lucky to be singing together. Jammies repertoire
runs from pop through spirituals to original contemporary pieces, many by
Yvonne Burgess, the group’s director.
I
Black is Black :
Always Burning Sun (Yvonne Burgess)
: In My Life (Lennon/McCartney) : April Moon (Yvonne Burgess) : Yes
I Will :
Ten Thousand Charms (Robinson/Kunkel)
II
The
Past is History (Yvonne Burgess) : The Stream (Yvonne Burgess) :
Water Wrinkles (Morag Carmichael)
: Let Peace Like a River (Yvonne
Burgess) : Frank Lloyd Wright (Paul Simon)
III
Life’s
Purpose (Longfellow/Kelley) : I am in the Stillness (Yvonne Burgess) :
Midwinter Song (Yvonne Burgess)
: Michelle (Lennon/McCartney) : Ah
My Heart (Anon) : You’ve Got a Friend (Carole King) :
Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong)
Doors open 7.30
ticket £2 take seats by 8 refreshments
4 West Street -by the flag
PENICUIK ARTS
CENTRE
SATURDAY 16th APRIL: a brilliant evening of
more than traditional music
with michelle burke
accomplished irish-edinburgh vocalist
anna-wendy stevenson
leading
fiddler of Fine Friday fame
and james ross
pianist
acclaimed at Penicuik Arts
-doors open 7.30, tickets £6 (01968 678804 Penicuik Arts Centre is at 4 West Street alongside the
Belgian Consulate - look for the flag
