I'VE LOST MY BOBBLE HAT! A new Nick Cope family show for 2025!
Help Nick find his beloved bobble hat in this fun filled musical hour with all your favourite Nick Cope hits and more.
Nick Cope has been writing and recording his beautiful and totally unique songs for children and their families for over 10 years, he performs with his guitar and stunning animations to sell-out crowds all over the country.
His fanatical following of little and not so little fans has grown immeasurably over the last couple of years due to the phenomenal success of the CBeebies show 'Nick Cope's Popcast', now in its third series.
Nick has a magical way of reaching into people's hearts, igniting children's imagination in an organic, unpatronizing, educational and fun way.
With his charming songs and humour Nick engages, entertains, and enthrals all generations. Nick's live performances are legendary. If you haven't heard his songs or seen his shows before, come along and find out what you've been missing.
After the success of their 2024 screening of South Pacific, the Guild of Players invites you back for another unforgettable film night featuring the timeless classic Dirty Dancing!
Ready to have the time of your life? Set in the summer of 1963, Dirty Dancing follows Baby, an innocent 17-year-old, on vacation with her family in the Catskills. Drawn to the staff quarters by irresistible music, she meets Johnny, the hotel's charming dance instructor. As Baby learns to dance, sparks fly, and she discovers love in a summer that changes her life forever.
Regular Music Presents King Creosote 'Any Storm In A Teacup'
Easterbrook Hall, Dumfries, DG1 4TA
Friday 4th April 2025 7.30pm
Following on from the success of 2024's "Any Port in a Storm" tour, King Creosote's 2025's follow-up "Any Storm in a Teacup" promises a night of modular synth, I DES tracks and KC 'classics'.
The Scottish Fiddle Orchestra has been at the forefront of traditional Scottish music for over 40 years. Described as "Scotland's leading fiddle orchestra" they perform annually in Scotland's major concert halls as well as performing in England and Northern Ireland. Overseas tours include North America, Australia, New Zealand and China.
Under the baton of conductor Blair Parham, the orchestra will share the stage of the magnificent Easterbrook Hall with guest performers and members of the Dumfries Pipe Band. Join the orchestra for a guaranteed evening of world-class entertainment perfect for the whole family. Music lovers of a l ages can expect to enjoy toe-tapping reels and jigs, lively strathspeys and marches, and poignant slow airs performed by the skilled members of one of Scotland's foremost traditional music organisations.
SHAUN RYDER - HAPPY MONDAYS, AND FRIDAYS, AND SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS
Easterbrook Hall, Dumfries, DG1 4TA
Wed 9th April 2025 7.30pm
He's the wild man of rock who became a national treasure.
Happy Mondays and Black Grape frontman Shaun Ryder is hitting the road for a new, spoken word tour.
The star of more-TV-shows-than-anyone-has-a-right-to-feature-on - including Celebrity Gogglebox, and I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, among many others - redefined the sex'n'drugs'n'rock'n'roll lifestyle during the halcyon age of Madchester.
He's touring in support of his new book: Happy Mondays - and Fridays and Saturdays and Sundays.
Fans can look forward to a carnival of excess, wild tales, and improbable truths, as they enjoy the talents of a unique rock'n'roll star dubbed Britpop's answer to WB Yeats.
Conn Artists Theatre Company in association with Play to the Crowd present:
Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd
Adapted by Nick Young & Ross Muir
Capricious, independent and beautiful Bathsheba Everdene inherits and manages her uncle's farm. She is courted by three infatuated suitors: an honest, loyal and capable shepherd; a womanising and charming Sergeant; and a lonely, wealthy farmer. Who will she choose? If any of them? She plays with all their hearts to devastating and dramatic effect.
Far from the Madding Crowd demonstrates live, vibrant theatre at its very best.
Thomas Hardy's masterpiece about love, class and gender roles is set against the rural landscape of Victorian England and is thrillingly brought to life in a new adaptation by the acclaimed Conn Artists Theatre Company, performed by an ensemble cast accompanied by music and songs of the period.
Since their formation in December 2022, the band has been a tremendous success, with sold out shows, standing ovations, a total of over 100K views on their YouTube channel and more than 700 enthusiastic comments and audience reviews.
Hejira' is a 7-piece band set up to celebrate and honour the masterpiece works of Joni Mitchell, mostly from the late '70s. Having released the albums 'The Hissing of Summer Lawns', 'Hejira', 'Don Juan's Reckless Daughter' and 'Mingus' (regarded as her 'jazz period'), Joni then toured briefly with a band formed from the crème de la crème of contemporaneous jazz musicians (Metheny, Mays, Brecker, Pastorius and Alias). The tour was recorded, producing the outstanding live album, 'Shadows And Light'; it is from this album that the band Hejira is drawing the body of its repertoire. Comprising highly experienced jazz musicians, this band is fronted by the brilliant Hattie Whitehead who not only has - in her own way - assimilated the poise, power and beauty of Joni's vocals, but also plays guitar with Joni's stylistic mannerisms. Expect an evening of the 'great' songs from Mitchell's back catalogue, such as 'Amelia', 'Woodstock', 'A Case Of You', 'Song For Sharon', 'Edith And The Kingpin'.
Guild of Players presents Farndale MacBeth by Walter Zerlin Jnr and David McGillivray
Theatre Royal, Dumfries
Wed 23rd - Sat 26th April 2025 7.30pm
The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society ladies mount yet another assault on the classics with a startlingly original production of Macbeth staged to get them to the Welwyn Garden City Finals. Under the carefully Mascara'd eye of adjudicator George Peach, all events conspire hilariously against them.
An Evening With Rangers Legends - Terry Butcher, Mark Hateley, Ian Durrant and Graham Roberts
Easterbrook Hall, Dumfries, DG1 4TA
Fri 25th April 2025 7.30pm
Rangers LEGENDS - In Conversation
Mark Hateley, Terry Butcher, Ian Durrant
Host Graham Roberts.
Amassing more than 550 appearances in the royal blue between them, three Rangers legends are coming to town to talk about their action-packed football careers.
Starring Mark Hateley, Terry Butcher & Ian Durrant along with host for the evening Graham Roberts now a regular on talksport; they will discuss the games, dressing room/training ground stories, managers, fall outs and everything you wanted to know about playing for a successful football club.
Regular Music presents Karine Polwart 'Feather & Ether Tour'
Easterbrook Hall, Dumfries, DG1 4TA
Saturday 26th April 2025 7.30pm
2025 marks 25 years since KARINE POLWART embraced a full-time career as a Scottish folk singer, and 20 years since she scooped three BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards following her debut solo album Faultlines.
Since then, she's become a multi-award-winning songwriter, theatre maker, broadcaster and storyteller whose work evokes a richness of place, hidden histories, scientific enquiry and folklore. Trees and rocks speak. Birds flit in and out of vision. And the stars know everything. She conjures the beauty and magic, the sorrow and complexity of the world out of the corner of her eye, with lyricism and tenderness.
The public and critically acclaimed five star production WHEN WE WERE YOUNG goes beyond the tabloid stereotype of 'Neds' to tell a powerful and hilarious story about the realities of gang culture and young team mentality in Glasgow during the 90s, as we follow the lives of one of the many youngteams who polluted the streets of the city during a time it was known as The Murder Capital of Europe.
This production is both a hilarious and eye opening look back to 1990s Glasgow and the notorious postcode wars as well as telling a heartbreaking story of stolen youth.
This show contains strong language, adult humour and blood. Recommended for audiences 16+
