Articles from June 2010

The popular Trad-rock band Skerryvore return to Dunoon on Friday 2nd July to perform in the Queens Hall the day after they launch their new album in Glasgow. . They are an award wining Scottish Band with blazing bagpipes, fiddle and accordians, electrically fused with funky rhythms and soul-gripping songs. They will be supported by Canned Haggis. They first performed in Dunoon for the closing dance at the MOD 2006 where their fast paced ceildh music kept the party going into the small hours. They have gone on to tour the world and we are pleased to say they will be popping in to see us at DCR before their performance. We also have 2 pairs of tickets including back stage passes for the concert to give away, if you want to win these all you have to do is send in your name and contact number by email, text or white post box and the two lucky winners will be drawn out of the hat on Thursday night.

 Mud Divers and AKs Team Buddy Mollox play in the final Buddy Mollox from Port Glasgow (in the orange) where the eventual winners.

 Yippee Ki-Yay from Dunoon where the winners in the mixed final beating the favourites 2 time World Champions from Belgium.

The mud fest is back this weekend some come and join us and the fifty teams who include The Whitby Walruses, Thicker, Slower, Better and Bruce’s bogtrotters for this fun event. Watch as the teams  fight through the mud trying to score goals against one another. There will be teams from across Britain as well as further afield including Belgium and Finland. There will also be a large screen TV to watch live World Cup Football, a licensed bar, restaurant offering authentic curries, pasta and much more. There will be a celidh on Saturday night and we will be there on both days providing the music.

The glorious weather continued on Saturday, but this brought a wee problem for the organisers of the Raft Race at Benmore as there was no water in the burn so the race was moved to Loch Eck, but this certainly did not dampen any of the fun.

Theres some more pictures on the Roadshow page

And we have even seen some sun!, so it is time to bring the roadshow out of it winter darkness outside into the sunshine for some of the great outdoor events that are happening in the area. we are pleased to be going back to some of our favourites such as Mighty Eachaig Challenge and Swamp Soccer along with new events, we are even hoping to be out and about at Cowal Games.  So please come along and say hello to us, to see all the great events happening go to the What’s On page