Posts by JannaRA
West over Sea
This year’s Tobermory Book Festival closed with a gala dinner in the company of world renowned and best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith who read a poem, composed that morning, inspired by the couple of days he had just spent in Tobermory at the Festival. A very special moment for the audience at this sold out…
Read MoreMull’s TV Stars!
Mull folk are featuring on national TV at the moment, and Banjo Beale of Designing the Hebrides fame, caught up with Douglas Swinbanks (Survivor) in Tobermory recently. Banjo and the team at Designing the Hebrides have just won a BAFTA for Best Feature, which was presented at the 2023 BAFTA Scotland awards ceremony in Glasgow…
Read More20th Anniversary Success
Comunn Gàidhealach Mhuile celebrate their 20th anniversary with victory at the Royal National Mòd in Paisley. The choir were successful in the U13 Unison taking home the Donald & Mamie MacPhail Trophy, the Darlington Society Silver Jubilee Trophy for the highest marks in Gaelic and the Morag Robb Memorial Trophy for the highest marks in…
Read MoreSound of Iona Music Festival
A new Scottish music festival is heading to Iona in 2024. The Sound of Iona Music Festival will see a host of indie rock and Scottish folk acts take to the stage on Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd of June next year. The festival is bursting with Scottish talent including folk singer Iona Fyfe and…
Read MoreFinally Fergus!
Barlow claims Beatson’s Building Supplies Mull Rally win Tobermory driver Fergus Barlow fulfilled a “boyhood dream” to win his home rally, by taking victory at the Beatson’s Building Supplies Mull Rally, held on 13-15 October. After seventeen stages and over 134 miles of competitive action, it was the local hero and co-driving brother Craig [all…
Read MoreMendelssohn on Mull 2023
This year’s festival of chamber music, otherwise known as MoM, was a true delight. Put together one established chamber quartet, 8 young professional musicians and place them on the Isle of Mull for a week to rehearse and perform together, and as festival manager Richard Jeffcoat puts it ‘magic happens’. Artistic Directors the Doric Quartet…
Read MoreLocal Mòd
The Mull Mòd took place this year on the 8th and 9th of September in Tobermory. We had a record number of entries, with an estimated 300 children competing (once choirs and action songs were taken into consideration) on the Friday, and over 120 adults on Saturday. Because of the huge amount of entries, we…
Read MoreTobermory Lifeboat Day 2023
Sunday 13 August saw the return of Tobermory Lifeboat Day which has raised more than £3000 to help train and kit out our volunteer crew, and launch the all-weather lifeboat to those in need After a dreich start, Tobermory Lifeboat Day kicked off with the Severn class lifeboat, Elizabeth Fairlie Ramsey, arriving alongside the pontoons…
Read MoreBunessan 5’s
‘Historic tournament returns to the Ross’ Saturday 28th July saw the return of the eagerly anticipated Bunessan 5-a-side football tournament to the Ross of Mull after a prolonged Covid-19 induced absence. Around 100 competitors descended on the ‘Bun-Etihad’, otherwise known as the Bunessan School playing field, with players travelling from across Mull, Iona, Oban and…
Read MoreSalen Show 2023
Mull & Morvern Agricultural Society were blessed with a warm sunny day for Salen Show on 10th August, and the crowds duly came out to enjoy it. There was plenty to entertain the wee ones, with a bouncy castle and rodeo bull, and laser clay shooting. An Tobar had also laid on a special attraction…
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