Last Sunday saw the return of another incredibly successful Courtyard Concert – a series of free outdoor performances taking place in the Haddo Tearoom Courtyard, featuring a variety of artists and musicians between May and October 2025. Sunday’s concert featured the ladies voices of Haddos very own Haddo House Choral and Operatic Society, as they…
The 140+ people, soaking up the Sun in Haddo’s courtyard on Sunday certainly enjoyed a toe-tapping treat. Two young, rising talents, who met each other through Scotland’s traditional music organisation, SC&T, wowed their al fresco audience with their renditions of well-loved Scottish jigs & reels, alongside their own competent & well-crafted compositions. As their music…
We were thrilled to welcome Ronnie Gibson on Sunday 6th July as part of our monthly Courtyard Concerts, in association with National Trust for Scotland. Ronnie Gibson delighted the audience at Haddo with a set of traditional Scottish fiddle music, wonderfully highlighted by the sunny surroundings of the Haddo Country Park. Ronnie is a music…
Only at Haddo… What a thrilling performance we enjoyed on Sunday evening! Ryan Corbett, Matthew Kilner and Neil Birse, three exciting young Scottish musicians coming together for a set of traditional tunes played on accordion, tenor saxophone and piano in the finale of a wonderful concert. A unique combination in a unique venue! Here’s what…
Haddo Arts 2025 season of events swings into action on Friday 23 May with the Gabriel Latchin Trio. Their tribute to George Gershwin, the pre-eminent American composer, will feature new arrangements of all-Gershwin favourites such as Summertime, Someone to Watch Over Me and I Got Rhythm. More details and tickets here On 29 June, Ryan…
Haddo Arts are delighted to announce that the celebrated, innovative, international pianist, Joanna MacGregor CBE has joined us as a Patron. You may already be familiar with Joanna’s work and you may have seen her at Haddo where she has performed in the 2021 Haddo Arts Festival and is returning for the 2024 Festival. Joanna…
We are delighted to share Alan Cooper’s review of last night’s concert which held a packed audience in Haddo Chapel spellbound: Sunday’s special Haddo Arts Concert presented by Dr Roger B. Williams MBE was ‘A Centenary Tribute to Gabriel Fauré (1845 – 1924). It was quite a short concert with two celebrated works by Fauré:…
Haddo Arts Festival will take place from 12 – 15 September 2024. We are thrilled to share some of the excellent events we have lined up, with more to follow: Following from their set at the Private View for the Gordon Contemporaries art exhibition, Neil Birse and Matthew Kilner give the first performance of their…
We are delighted to be collaborating with The University of Aberdeen to bring you the first Haddo Arts event of 2024 – Classical Legacies: A Poetry Reading by A.E. Stallings, taking place in the Library at Haddo House at 2.30 pm on Monday 15 April. Elected as Oxford Professor of Poetry in June last year,…
Haddo audiences thoroughly enjoyed this year’s festival programme which ran from 6 – 10 October. Baroque specialists Red Priest opened this year’s Haddo Arts Festival in lively fashion on Friday 6 October Their exuberant interpretation of music by Bach, Handel, Telemann and, of course, the red priest himself, Vivaldi, thrilled an enthusiastic audience. Piers Adams,…