jan-11 - Lochwinnoch Online

The rink was filled with young and
not-so-young folk whizzing around
like dervishes. It was a spectacle to
be enjoyed with a warming glass of
Vin Chaud (mulled wine) in one hand
and a hot crepe au chocolat in the
other. I bought mine from the stand
manned by a national charitable
organisation known as Les
Restaurants du Coeur, (Restaurants
Which Care) founded by the late
comedian Coluche. This exists to
raise funds to provide food and
assistance to homeless people
throughout France, and in fact one of
our friends from Fouquenies, Lucien
Boulet is an active volunteer worker
with them: you can imagine how busy
they must be at this time of year.
The drag artists referred to above
were not in fact ice-skating drag
artists (easily misinterpreted) but a
cabaret show due to appear just after
the deadline for submitting articles
for Chatterbox. Having seen some of
the Lochwinnoch men portrayed in
some of the village website
photographs in ladies' attire, (No
names, no pack drill, Charlie and
Greg) I realise that there might well
be great interest in such a soiree, so I
will try to attend the forthcoming
event and provide an overview for
the February edition of Chatterbox.
Purely in the interests of cultural and
artistic critique, of course.
Finally, did you know that in
Lochwinnoch we have the first ever
British judge of the Tour de France? I
am pleased to announce that fluent
French speaker Gerry McDaid has
volunteered to assist with our
unofficial twinning with Fouquenies
and is also happy to help translate
messages received or to be sent.
Contact me at rory905@hotmail.com
for details. Thank you Gerry.
So: I hope you have had un Joyeux
Noel, une Bonne Annee and, to one
and all, 'Lang May Yer Lum Reek' in
2011 and beyond.
A bientot, chums. More next month.
Ronnie McCorrisken
Lochwinnoch Arts Festival
2011
The 2011 Lochwinnoch Arts Festival
will run from Thursday 17th March till
Sunday 27th March. Make a note of
the dates in your new diary.
Some features for this year are:
Paintings and Crafts
Calder Church Scottish/Burns night
Susie Lamont’s pupils’ concert
Author Christopher Brookmyer
Tea dance
Classical, jazz and folk music
A Lochwinnoch village play
Childrens crafts
Lochwinnoch choir concert
and more!!
Morag and committee
‘CatFord’ Headlines
Lochwinnoch Arts Festival
Continuing in its tradition of
attracting some of the biggest names
in Arts and Entertainment to the
quiet Renfrewshire village of
Lochwinnoch, on March 26th 2011
the Lochwinnoch Arts Festival will
proudly be hosting ‘CatFord’ and
guests, as part of their ‘Chronicles’
tour, at the McKillop Institute in
Lochwinnoch.
The CatFord members are Davy
Cattanach (formerly of the Old Blind
Dogs) on lead and backing vocals,
rhythm guitar, percussion and
drums, ace vocalist Steve Crawford
on lead and backing vocals, lead and
rhythm guitar, mandolin, percussion
and drums, and Jonny Hardie
renowned musician with the Old
Blind Dog on backing vocals, guitar,
fiddle and mandolin. Their guests
will be Ali Hutton multiinstrumentalist
who specialises in
pipes, whistles and guitar, and is
also from the Old Blind Dogs, and
Nigel Hitchcock sax player
extraordinaire who, as well as having
his own quartet, has played with
artists such as the Peatbog Faeries,
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Stan Tracey, Claire Martin and
Laurence Cottle.
With such a virtuoso line-up the
audience can expect a delightful mix of
music featuring new material from
CatFord’s current CD ‘Chronicles’,
plus traditional music ingeniously
expanding upon and harnessing the
resonance and the timeless themes of
British Isles’, Scottish in particular,
roots music, welding them into new
rhythmic frameworks, dynamic arcs,
and textural expanses. Nigel’s
saxophone will also be bringing new
depths and tones to some of these
renditions, plus will feature on a
couple of ‘solo’ numbers.
The evening’s entertainment will
commence with a set of new material
written and performed by a fusion of
two local groups, the Semple Tones
and the Shed Inspectors.
The Concert is at 8.00pm on Saturday
26th March 2011 in the McKillop
Institute, Main Street, Lochwinnoch,
P A 1 2 4 A J :
Tickets - £12.00 each – available
from: Crafts of Calder, Gallery and
Framing, 8 High Street, Lochwinnoch
PA12 4DA. Tel: 01505 844 980, and
Cucina Minucci at the Junction, 2-4
High Street, Lochwinnoch PA12 4DA.
Tel: 01505 842 225
Knit @ The Junction
Knitting Group meets Mondays from
10am - noon (sometimes longer). All
levels and learners welcome. Come
and be inspired and partake of Jo and
Ivan's great food.
Contact Linda Collison for
more information
lcollison@tiscali.co.uk