March
Peat & Diesel
Easterbrook Hall, Dumfries, DG1 4TA
Sat 1st March 2025 7.30pm
14+ years
Under 16 must be accompanied by an adult and seated in the balcony
Please contact the Midsteeple Box Office directly on 01387 253 383 if you require a wheelchair space.
Nearing the end of the year, but nowhere near the end of our story.... ....indeed, we're at the start of a new chapter.
The boys have been busy back at their day jobs having a break after a summer which saw the launch of our already infamous own festival, the Black Isle Belter when 10,000 fans came from across the UK to join the us in the Highlands for a weekend of music, fun and trucks!!
We're looking forward to getting 'Back on the Horse' and out on the road for a couple of weeks in November, before returning to the studio to work on more new music over the winter months.
2025 kicks off in true style, with not only our biggest Glasgow show to date, but we have the honour of being the first act to play the mighty Emirates Arena as part of Celtic Connections.
Then we embark on a wee tour across the UK returning to some cities we've not been to in a couple of years...we're hoping you'll be there to greet us?!
Hannay Stands Fast
Theatre Royal, Dumfries
Thu 6th March 2025 7.30pm
A thrilling sequel to "The 39 Steps", Hannay Stands Fast sees our dashing hero, Richard Hannay back in the fray on a mission to thwart a new and deadly threat to his beloved England. Engaged on this top-secret case by MI5, Hannay makes his way down to Cornwall to infiltrate a secretive organisation and learn their dastardly plans. Can he save the day to keep the nation safe for another day?
Hannay Stands Fast, like its predecessor, is taken on by four actors playing dozens of characters - 53 to be precise! Set in various locations created through quick and innovative uses of trunks, crates, suitcases, ladders, you name it! A rip-roaring comedy for the whole family to enjoy - another of John Buchan's classic Hannay stories re-told for the stage through laughs, daring-do and utter chaos!
Adventures on Old MacDonalds Farm
Theatre Royal, Dumfries
Sunday 9th March 2025 1pm and 3pm
Join us down on Old MacDonald's Farm for fun, songs and excitement.
Friendly Sammy Scarecrow is enjoying his first day on Old MacDonald's Farm and loves meeting all of the colourful characters that live there. When a mystery unfolds on the farm, can you help Scarecrow find out what's going on?
With an original script and brand new songs written for this production, along with many singalong favourites, this professionally produced show brought to you by DreamWorld Promotions is a thrill for younger children.
Pride Of Ireland starring Mike Denver and Dominic Kirwan
Easterbrook Hall, Dumfries, DG1 4TA
Wed 12 March 2025 7.30pm - 10.30pm approx
ST PATRICK'S DAY SHOW
Come along to this fabulous night of Irish music, Fun and Craic, jam packed with the very best of Irish entertainment and starring Ireland's most dynamic and versatile performers.
This stunning line up features Ireland's Top Recording Star the Fabulous MIKE DENVER (The Galway Boy)
With Ireland's International Hit Recording Star DOMINIC KIRWAN.
CELEBRATE IN TRUE IRISH STYLE!! THIS AMAZING SHOW IS TRULY THE PRIDE OF IRELAND'S TALENT AND WILL GIVE YOU A NIGHT TO REMEMBER!!
To book a table at Easterbrook Bistro for food before the show - click here
The Mumford & Sons Story
Theatre Royal, Dumfries
Thu 13th March 2025 7.30pm
The Mumford & Sons Story recreates the incredible tale of the floor-stomping folk-rock band that in 2009, took the world by storm. Four musicians come together in tweed waistcoats, skinny jeans and bushy beards to celebrate the best of Mumford & Sons' iconic music and their explosive rise to fame.
After a debut hit tour in 2024, This spectacular 4 piece band is back bigger and better than ever. With beautiful vocal harmonies, and foot-stomping drums they will have you on your feet playing all of Mumford & Sons' very best hits, including Little Lion Man, I Will Wait, The Cave, Roll Away Your Stone and many more. This is a stomp and holler not to be missed!
Sir Ranulph Fiennes: Mad, Bad and Dangerous - CANCELLED
Easterbrook Hall, Dumfries, DG1 4TA
Thu 13th March 2025 7.30pm
Spend an evening in the extraordinary company of Sir Ranulph Fiennes OBE - 'the world's greatest living explorer' - as he goes beyond his record-breaking achievements to explore the man behind the myth.
Brodsky Trio
Netherby Hall, Carlisle - Fri 14th March 2025 6.30pm
Cochran Hall, Kirkcudbright - Sat 15th March 2025 7.30pm
Easterbrook Hall, Dumfries - Sun 16th March 2025 2.30pm
Programme:
Glasunov Chant du ménestrel for cello and piano
Ducros Encore for cello and piano
Wieniawski Legende Op 17 for violin andpiano
Wieniawski Polonaise de Concert in D Major Op 4 for violin and piano
Interval
Tchaikovsky Trio in A min
Music in Dumfries presents: Bojan Čičić
Moat Brae, Dumfries, DG1 1EA
Fri 14th March 2025 7.30pm
Croatian-born violinist Bojan Čičić has established himself as one of the leading names on the early music scene, as both a soloist and music director.
In addition to being the leader of the Academy of Ancient Music, he directs ensembles including De Nederlandse Bachvereniging, Dunedin Consort, Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and Phion Orkest van Gelderland & Overijssel.
PROGRAMME
Sonatas and partitas for solo violin by J.S. Bach
Sonata I BWV 1001 in G minor
Sonata II BWV 1003 in A Minor
Partita III BWV 1006
Partita II BWV 1004
Dougie MacLean
Easterbrook Hall, Bankend Rd, DG1 4ZE
Sat 15th March 2025 7.30pm
The Crichton Trust are delighted to welcome Dougie MacLean to Easterbrook Hall. Dougie will celebrate a long and vibrant 50 years as a song maker and inspired performer by focussing on some of the songs and tunes that have brought him success at home and abroad. Most renowned for his song Caledonia, and melody The Gael and inspired performances in venues from London's Festival Hall, to New York's Carnegie Hall and Sydney's Opera House, his popularity is still growing as his weekly broadcasts begun in March 2020 from his Old Schoolhouse in Perthshire have reached over 4 million viewers in 70 different countries! He has received three prestigious Tartan Clef Awards, a place in the Scottish Music Hall of Fame, a Lifetime Achievement Award from BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, and Honorary Doctorate and an OBE!
'... a musical hero' Wall Street Journal
This will be a special evening and not one to be missed.
Under Milk Wood
Brigend Theatre Dumfries, Dumfries, DG2 7EA
Sat 15th March 2025 2.30pm & 7.30pm
"Under Milk Wood is arguably Dylan Thomas's most famous and best-loved work. First performed in New York in 1953, this "Play for Voices" was described by the poet himself as "prose with blood pressure".
The play describes 24 hours in the life of Llareggub (read it backwards!), a small, Welsh, fictional seaside town. Although clearly Welsh, the people are universal; mad yet sane, scared but brave, funny and sad, full of hope and pathos. In essence, all of us. Under Milk Wood is a beautifully lyrical, bawdy, heartfelt, humorous and moving evocation of people and place: a Welsh Ulysses.
Dave Nelder's solo performance inhabits all 70-odd characters (some very odd!) as he leads us through their day, from the "darkest-before-dawn" dreamscapes to the alcohol-fuelled night; exploring the conflict between outward respectability and secret inner lives as the townsfolk go about their apparently humdrum lives."
The music of James Taylor performed by Vernon James
Crichton Central, Dumfries, DG1 4TA
Sat 22nd March 2025 7.30pm
James Taylor is the encapsulation of the best of American songwriting. His music has touched millions worldwide over his ongoing 55 year strong career and his music still stands up to the test of time.
'How Sweet It Is' focuses more on Taylor's early songwriting career, featuring much loved songs, such as 'Sweet Baby James', 'Something
In The Way She Moves', 'Fire and Rain' but also includes more recent classics like the evocative 'Frozen Man'.
Vernon James performs the songs true to how they were written and in the spirit of James Taylor himself, with a soulful lilt. During this two hour show, you will be taken on journey back to simpler times and happily lose yourself in the dulcet tones and sweet melodies of the finest songs written in the last half a century.
The Glam Rock Show - Get It On
Easterbrook Hall, Bankend Rd, DG1 4ZE
Fri 28th March 2025 7.30pm
Get ready for a night of glam rock!
Girls grab your boys it's time to go wild, wild, wild! As we transport you back to the golden age of Glam, with all the songs you know and love!
Starring son of Sweet Legend - Brian Connolly Jnr, it's time to Get It On! As our sensational cast and live band recreate the soundtrack of a generation.
So come on feel the noise and grab your Tiger Feet as we say Bye, Bye Baby to the Spirit in the sky, for a night like no other!
Bringing you the biggest hits from the likes of The Bay City Rollers, Sweet, T.Rex, Mud, Slade, Bowie, Suzi Quatro, Wizard and many more.
Keeping the glam rock fire burning, touring nationwide. This is the Glam Rock show! Not to be missed!
"If you love the 70s and love to be transported back......it really is for you."
BBC Radio Tees
Kennedy Street Enterprises present Nathan Carter And his band
Easterbrook Hall, Dumfries, DG1 4TA
Sat 29th March 2025 7.30pm
He has outsold the likes of Beyonce in Ireland, performed for the Pope, sold out venues across the world; and is one of the most prolific touring artists in the UK.
Born in Liverpool to Irish parents from County Down, Nathan Carter has released 13 studio albums and 6 live albums, with a sound that traverses pop, Irish folk, country music and timeless ballads.
With tracks such as 'Wagon Wheel' and 'I Wanna Dance' becoming huge hits, he is one of Ireland's biggest artists, who has outsold One Direction, Pharrell Williams and Michael Bublé. He also became the first Irish country act to reach number 1 in the Irish charts in 2013 after Garth Brooks, six years before.
Stuart Mitchell: Tips Not Included - SOLD OUT
Theatre Royal, Dumfries
29th March 2025 8pm
With over 100M views online see the longest running panellist from BBC Scotland's "Breaking The News" live in his first national tour! "One of Scotland's rising star's, Stuart Mitchell is a comedian worth catching before he becomes mega." Sunday Mail.
Stuart Mitchell is now regarded as one of the UK's top comedians and social media stars with over a 100M views online. You've seen him online and now you can see him on his first ever national UK tour, Tips Not Included. Join the longest running panellist of BBC Scotland' Breaking The News as he shares his amazing life story. "Please go and see Stuart Mitchell" Will Ferrell.