Month: October 2020

Hardy, happier and hungry for art

People in North East Scotland are a hardy lot and well over 500 of them made the effort to visit the thought-provoking and eye-catching visual art exhibition displayed in the South Wing courtyard and garden at Haddo House. Drawing on the theme of ‘Experimental Use of 2m Space‘ artists chose a variety of media and…

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Song for Haddo – the perfect finale

You can learn from stories. That was the overarching message coming out loud and clear in the fantastic production of Fables and Foibles featuring hundreds of talented musical children from across Aberdeenshire. Based on the stories from Aesop’s Fables and featuring the paintings of these stories in the entrance hall at Haddo House by John…

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An Evening of Words and Music

In the third concert of Haddo’s virtual arts festival, Jamie McDougall introduced Laura Smith and Colin Sinclair who played Heinrich Baermann’s Adagio from Septet Op 23 setting in motion a very interesting evening of poetry and music. A student of the North East Scotland Music school which has strong links with Haddo, Laura performed this…

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Myrtle’s Tour de Force!

Thwarted by nothing, champion blagger and intrepid explorer, Myrtle Throgmorton made us view Haddo House with different eyes as she burst through the heavy wooden doors of this much-loved venue for music and the arts. Skilled musician Frank Thomson was the first to experience a ‘Myrtle moment’ as he played some wonderful tunes on his…

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Richard Michael Opens Haddo Arts Festival 2020 Online in Style

What a great way to spend a rainy Autumn evening…listening to Richard Michael present his ‘It’s all Music Folks’ in the atmospheric surroundings of Haddo’s wooden hall. While we missed the experience of being in that wonderful building, all of us tuning into this excellent concert- thanks to the videographer recording this concert-  had the…

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