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Comrie home proves a stunning location for Amahl performance

THE front room of a house in Comrie was the unusual setting for a mini-opera recently.Read

Comrie Youth Theatre performance hit by mystery illness

COMRIE Youth Theatre had a very dramatic night on Friday - but not in the way they had been expecting.Read

Wickerman Festival searches for unsigned talent for TV ad

SOME of the best songs would never have been heard if it wasn’t for the power of television advertising.Read

Crieff Choral Group concert

IT was a cauld, dreich nicht last Saturday but the worthy folk of Crieff who attended the Choral Group’s concert in St Andrew’s Hall enjoyed a heart warming experience. Billed as A Victorian Christmas Concert, with the choir, a solo soprano and a reader, and with carols for the audience it was a cheering affair, a fitting overture to the Festive Season.Read

Pinocchio preview

THE wooden puppet who yearns to be a real boy is poised to make jaws drop and imaginations soar in Perth Theatre’s version of his magical, musical adventure.Read

German visitors at Dunblane concert

DUNBLANE-based choir, the Rosenethe Singers will be hosting several important visitors at their next performance, in Dunblane Cathedral at 8pm on Sunday, November 8.Read

Strathearn artists part of national exhibition

THREE local artists from Strathearn have been selected from amongst over a thousand entries to display their works at one of Scotland’s most prestigious contemporary art exhibitions next month.Read

Crieff Drama Group celebrate 10 years with help from Comrie and St Fillans

CRIEFF Drama Group set about their 10th anniversary by inviting St Fillans Players and Comrie Drama Group to join them in two celebratory Supper Theatre evenings in Morrison’s Academy Hall, Crieff.Read

Obama Has Less Than 2 Weeks to Rule on US-China Tyres Saga

In just under two weeks, President Barak Obama is due to make a crucial ruling about the future of Chinese tyres imported to the US.Read

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at Pitlochry Festival Theatre

And so Miss Jean Brodie casts her enchantment of intelligence, wit, charm and imagination however misguided at times to develop the formative years of her set of young girls at the traditionalist Marcia Blaine School in Edinburgh. To quote Miss Brodie: “I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age and she is mine for life.”Read

Farce turns to frenzy in a hilarious night

WHAT a wealth of talent we have here in Strathearn. Over the last two weeks drama groups in Comrie and Braco have expertly entertained audiences with their spring productions.Read

Film review: The Boat That Rocked

RICHARD Curtis, by his own admission, has carved out his career by making modern classic love films.Read

T in The Park - new acts announced

GEOFF Ellis, festival director for T in The Park, has confirmed some fantastic headlining acts, with Kings of Leon taking to the stage on the Friday night, the Killers on Saturday and Blur and Snow Patrol on the Sunday.Read

Are you the next Harry Potter?

THE director who brought us Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is on the hunt for two Scottish teenagers for his next feature film.Read

Drama in Comrie

COMRIE Youth Theatre has started its new term. Sessions are run by a professional drama tutor and their aim is to allow youngsters to learn new skills and have fun while building towards a production in the spring.Read

Stars shine new light on Burns

SCOTLAND will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns on Sunday and a new book by a Strathearn author has been published to coincide with the event.Read

Strathearn Herald headlines from January 23, 1909

Researched and written by Caroline BoxerRead

RSNO treat for music lovers

WHAT a privileged wee town we live in! When the Royal Scottish National Orchestra determined upon a week of concerts, community visits, and workshops throughout Perth and Kinross from January 12 to 17, Crieff was selected as one of only half a dozen venues to be included in its itinerary.Read