Year 1 No 1 October 1977
The A.G.M. of the above Club was held in Wednesday, 17th August, when a large attendance of members tuned up. The Committee was voted back en bloc which showed that the work they put in was appreciated by the members. It was proposed and unanimously passed that we change from the ice rink to the Drumossie Hotel. At the annual dinner dance held at the ice rink on Friday, 27th May, music was supplied by John Ellis and his Highland Dance Band, the evening again being a huge success.
A night to note in your diary – 2nd November, 1977 ; again we have a special night with Dermot O’Brien as our guest artist.
On Monday, 19th September, the season opened with the Graeme Mitchell Trio from Keith, a young group of musicians that have won the Trio Trophy two years running at the Inverness Festival.
Our Club is very fortunate in having Rory MacLeod, our Vice-Chairman, as compere. He started the evening with the Ian Fraser Band. This band has progressed to one of the top bands in the north. Fraser McLean followed on the button box. Fraser has a new Shand Morino and has certainly mastered his new model. Jimmy Smith delighted the audience with the mouthorgan and his catchy tunes had their feet tapping.
Our next player, on the fiddle this time, was a man who has never missed a night at the Club, Dan McKenzie from Beauly. We also had solo turns from various members of the Ian Fraser Band ; Stewart Reid (fiddle) and a real stalwart, Archie McPhee, who played second box in the band, showed he was quite competent as a lead player.
In the second part after tea and sandwiches things had warmed up and everybody had lost their nerves and settled in to enjoy themselves. Norman Urquhart, a young button key player of outstanding quality, gave us a great selection, accompanied by Maureen Rutherford, the pianist from the Graeme Mitchell Trio ; two young people with a great future.
A good start to our season and our next guest artist will be Bobby Crowe.
The A.G.M. of the above Club was held in Wednesday, 17th August, when a large attendance of members tuned up. The Committee was voted back en bloc which showed that the work they put in was appreciated by the members. It was proposed and unanimously passed that we change from the ice rink to the Drumossie Hotel. At the annual dinner dance held at the ice rink on Friday, 27th May, music was supplied by John Ellis and his Highland Dance Band, the evening again being a huge success.
A night to note in your diary – 2nd November, 1977 ; again we have a special night with Dermot O’Brien as our guest artist.
On Monday, 19th September, the season opened with the Graeme Mitchell Trio from Keith, a young group of musicians that have won the Trio Trophy two years running at the Inverness Festival.
Our Club is very fortunate in having Rory MacLeod, our Vice-Chairman, as compere. He started the evening with the Ian Fraser Band. This band has progressed to one of the top bands in the north. Fraser McLean followed on the button box. Fraser has a new Shand Morino and has certainly mastered his new model. Jimmy Smith delighted the audience with the mouthorgan and his catchy tunes had their feet tapping.
Our next player, on the fiddle this time, was a man who has never missed a night at the Club, Dan McKenzie from Beauly. We also had solo turns from various members of the Ian Fraser Band ; Stewart Reid (fiddle) and a real stalwart, Archie McPhee, who played second box in the band, showed he was quite competent as a lead player.
In the second part after tea and sandwiches things had warmed up and everybody had lost their nerves and settled in to enjoy themselves. Norman Urquhart, a young button key player of outstanding quality, gave us a great selection, accompanied by Maureen Rutherford, the pianist from the Graeme Mitchell Trio ; two young people with a great future.
A good start to our season and our next guest artist will be Bobby Crowe.