Miscellaneous

Our friends at Haddo House Choral & Operatic Society have an event that we thought you may like. Please note that this is not a Haddo Arts event and booking is not available on this website.

Matron of the Arts – June Gordon  An inspiration to Haddo Arts  As we look forward to our 10th Haddo Arts Festival in 2021, it seems a fitting time to also look back to the origins of where it all began and the introduction of music and art to our much beloved Haddo House Estate….

From the seed of an idea from our first Chairman, Jerry Dennis, and Artistic Director, Alice Dennis BEM, we have had an unbelievable 10 years of festivals here at Haddo. We have covered a lot in those 10 years: music, masterclasses, comedy, poetry, literature, lectures and visual art. We have celebrated emerging and local artists…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Were you at our lecture in the 2014 Haddo Arts Festival about the painting ‘Dinner at Haddo House’ by Alfred Emslie? You may like this article from the National Trust for Scotland which places some historical context around the painting.    

One of the joys of being Haddo Arts Administrator is receiving emails from musicians who want to come and perform at Haddo, whether as part of the annual arts festival, or at other times of the year, and following the links they provide to performances of their music on their web site, YouTube or similar….

Jean Paul Baptiste’s piece “I Am An Immigrant” was displayed in the South Wing Courtyard as part of the Experimental Use of Space: Connections exhibition at the 2019 Haddo Arts Festival and was later awarded the RSA Open Prize. We asked him to tell us how and why he came to create the work. As…