Linlithgow Arts Guild - Linlithgow Arts Guild (SCIO)

Linlithgow Arts Guild offers top-class concerts of mainly classical music, and has been bringing Excellence in Live Arts to the town since 1969. We warmly invite you to share performances of the highest quality with us in a friendly environment. Our activities in 2020-21 were curtailed by the Pandemic, but we are now resuming concert promotion.

ACTIVITIES IN 2021-2022

In July and August 2021 we are organising a series of short daytime concerts which we hope will help audiences to resume concert-going after a long break. These are free events with limited audience numbers and priority booking for current members. We are also working to provide a classical music workshop at a local school later in the year.

Our regular series of top-class classical concerts resume in September 2021.

CONCERTS FOR SUMMER DAYS

Students and staff from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland will perform in Linlithgow during July and August this summer. Thanks to a grant, secured from Chamber Music Scotland and funded by Creative Scotland, Linlithgow Arts Guild is organising 5 socially distanced events in the town. There will be 4 concerts, of about 1-hour duration around the middle of each day in St. Michael’s Parish Church plus a Children’s concert.

The dates and times are shown below and details are on the corresponding events pages.

Priority tickets will be made available to members who have subscribed to the Arts Guild in the past year, with tickets not taken up by the members being available for public booking by phone or through the individual event pages of this website from 2 weeks before each event. Entry will be free of charge, and donations towards the costs, including artists fees, will be invited.

WINTER CONCERT SERIES 2021-2022

Our winter concert series opens on Saturday 9th September. We have identified dates, artists and event programmes for a series of 8 concerts, for which Season Tickets and individual event tickets will be available. These are detailed on our Programme Pages with ticketing links for each event. Season Tickets, which include membership, are available using the PayPal link on the Membership Page and a Membership-only option is also available.

PROGRAMME


CONCERTS FOR SUMMER DAYS

Sunday 18th July, 2pm	SONGS IN THE AFTERNOON - Soprano and Piano duo
Wed 28th July, 12 noon	PIANO BEFORE LUNCH - Piano solo
Wed 11th August, 12 noon	VIOLIN/PIANO AT NOON - Violin and Piano duo
Wed 25th August, 2pm	SAANJH, INDIAN SONGS & STORIES AFTER LUNCH - musical scenes of an Indian woman's journey through dusk, with songs, piano & tabla


2021-2022 CONCERT SERIES

Thursday 9th September	OPENING CONCERT - Martin Roscoe, Piano recital	St Michael's Church, 7.30pm
Friday 8th October	Creating Carmen - Staged & Acted Concert-Play	St Michael's Church, 7.30pm
Saturday 30th October	BabaYaga - Harp/Saxophone Duo	Bo'ness Town Hall, 7.30pm
Saturday 27th November	Marmen Quartet - String Quartet	Bo'ness Town Hall, 7.30pm
Saturday 12th February	Broen Ensemble, String Septet	St Michael's Church, 7.30pm
Saturday 5th March	Sinfonia Chamber Players	St Michael's Church, 7.30pm
Saturday 26th March	Metamorphoses - Clarinet, Viola and Piano trio	Bo'ness Town Hall, 7.30pm
Saturday 23rd April	Dudok Quartet, String Quartet and AGM (AGM 7.30; Prosecco and Concert at 8pm)	Venue t.b.a.

OUR NEXT EVENT

Marmen Quartet

Saturday 27th November at 7.30pm

Bo'ness Town Hall

TICKETS

Tickets will be available HERE or on the appropriate page in the Programme tab when events have been confirmed and seats remain available. We also sell tickets through our principal box office "Far from the Madding Crowd" in Linlithgow High Street, Linlithgow Post Office and "Inkspot and Silverleaf" in Bo'ness when the 2021-2022 concert series is running. To ensure social distancing ticket numbers may be restricted, and priority booking will be available to members.

SEASON TICKETS and MEMBERSHIP 2021-2022

Season tickets for the winter concert series include free membership, and cost £60. Membership for 2021-22 which does not include ticket purchase can be purchased for £10.

Membership includes:	Priority booking for concerts
	Priority access to our Garden Party and to member-only events
	Contributing to funds to cover admin costs
	Support for Linlithgow Arts Guild

Payments can be made by credit or debit card via PayPal. You will also be given the opportunity to offer Gift Aid.

DONATIONS

We work very hard to be able to attract artists of major international standing to Linlithgow. The cost of inviting musicians of this calibre will never be met from ticket sales alone. You can make a donation of any size and help us continue to welcome great classical music to Linlithgow.

Donations can be made by credit or debit card via PayPal

If you are not on our mailing list, and would like to receive advance information of our events, then please send us your email address via our Add to Mailing List.

We would be very happy for you to provide feedback on any matter relating to Linlithgow Arts Guild which you can do by completing the Contact Us form.

STEVEN OSBORNE

The music featured on this page is performed by Steven Osborne, international concert pianist, who comes from Linlithgow. We are very grateful to Steven for his many performances in the Town and his support of Linlithgow Arts Guild.