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Hot six in Moffat

TONIGHT Moffat Jazz and Blues Club welcome the Dave Wylie Hot Six.Read

Optimism hits Dumfries market

A MARKET with a positive difference came to Dumfries on Saturday.Read

Open Stage at So You

OPEN Stage, Dumfries’ open mic event, will welcome poets and singer songwriters to So You Café in Castle Street on Wednesday, March 31.Read

New Orleans comes to Dumfries

DUMFRIES Jazz Club welcomes one of the finest New Orleans style bands to The Birkhill on Sunday, March 28, when Brian Carrick’s Algiers Stompers take the stage.Read

So Below gets bad reputation

SO Below café in Castle Street, Dumfries, is preparing for the twin axe attack of cousins Barry and Derek Smith as their band, Bad Reputation takes to the stage on Saturday night.Read

Play the harp with Wendy Stewart at Midsteeple

HAVE a go on a harp with internationally renowned harper Wendy Stewart.Read

Weekend Film Scene with Bill Cunningham

THE 3D world of Tim Burton continues, Nelson Mandela becomes Morgan Freeman, or is it the other way about? The traumatic Precious is the film of the week, a Bollywood spectacular is an adrenaline rush, there’s a doggie lover’s tear-jerker and the village and school at Ae have their very own film premiere.Read

Ocean Colour Scene to headline Wickerman 2010

BRITPOP legends Ocean Colour Scene have been announced as Saturday night headliners for this year’s Wickerman Festival.Read

Dumfries and District Music Festival continues in full voice

THE DUMFRIES and District Music Festival continued over the weekend with some fine orations in the speech section.Read

Wednesday Film Scene with Bill Cunningham

Odeon, DumfriesRead

Come and join the multicultural choir

THE DGMA Multicultural Choir is one of the most recent projects of the Dumfries and Galloway Multicultural Association.Read

New technology for traditional musicians

A WORKSHOP for traditional musicians will help them get the most out of the latest social networking technology.Read

DGAA welcomes new literature development officer

DUMFRIES and Galloway Arts Association has a new literature development officer.Read

Tolbooths Arts Centre hosts Genesis sculpture and art by Kirti Mandir

A NEW exhibition has just opened in the Tolbooth Art Centre’s main gallery in Kirkcudbright.Read

Pants idea to raise mountain of cash for charity

THE LAUGHS will be aimed at Dumfries comedian John Kirkpatrick at the weekend as he attempts to scale Criffel in his pants.Read

Dumfries Welcomes The Market of Optimism

MISCHIEF La-Bas, Scotland’s leading Street Theatre Company, will be bringing good moods to Dumfries on Saturday with The Market of Optimism.Read

Dumfries and District Music Festival continues with speech section

THE Dumfries and District Music Festival continues with the speech section this weekend at Dumfries Academy in both the Main and Minerva Halls.Read

Ins and outs of hen husbandry at Gracefield Arts Centre

A FASCINATING new exhibition by Christian Barnes and John Kennedy opens its doors this weekend at Gracefield Studios Dumfries.Read

From Rossini to Puccini - Opera highlights has it all in Castle Douglas

SCOTTISH Opera is coming to the Lochside Theatre, Castle Douglas, on March 18 with its annual tour of Opera Highlights – a relaxed, informal, concert-style evening of well-known opera tunes and little-known gems.Read

Guild of Player’s present The Lion in Winter

THE Theatre Royal’s talented guild will be staging a production of A Lion in Winter by James Goldman.Read

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