Not content with 1 event every 2 months, we have gone for 3 in a fortnight, plus a ceilidh in the hall on 1st April! Find out more below:
18th March 1.30pm – Saltfishforty – SOLD OUT
18th March 7pm – Saltfishforty – SOLD OUT
25th March 7pm – My Muses Take Care Of Me – Tickets Available
1st April – DEC Earthquake Fundraising Ceilidh
My Muses Take Care Of Me
A Letham Village Hall co-production
by Fleur Darkin in collaboration with the performers
Matthew Brown/Verity Church/Fleur Darkin/Salma Faraji/Amy Hollinshead/Claire Rose-Barbier
Join us at Letham Nights for an exclusive preview of My Muses Take Care of Me and an extended club night with beats to get you dancing.
Tickets here >>
My Muses was performed to thousands of people at British Museum (August 2022) and explores feminine power and animist impulses. The full company of professional dancers and musicians will be resident at Letham turning this stunning gallery work into an intimate evening show. You’re invited behind the curtain to this exclusive preview performance as our local audience and collaborators.
Post-performance the evening will unfold into an extended night of dancing for all… a very first Letham Club Night!
Doors open 7pm
7.30pm My Muses (performance with live music)
8.30pm Fleur Darkin live DJ set
9.30pm Matthew Brown live music set
Wow! Our first Letham Nights Dance Performance. Our first Letham Club Night – turning the whole hall into our playing space for inspiration…
Matthew Brown is an Australian artist and composer living in Scotland. He has participated in group/solo exhibitions and performances in Australia, Germany, Indonesia, New Zealand and Norway, while running a small record label in the Australian underground noise and club culture communities. Collaborations include: James Grant, The Necks, Justin Fuller, Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson, and most recently work with Scottish label Blackford Hill.
Fleur Darkin is an award-winning, world leading choreographer/director living in Fife. Formerly director of Scottish Dance Theatre, Fleur has toured the world devising innovative collaborations and worked extensively in theatre with the Lyceum in Edinburgh, the Abbey in Dublin and National Theatre of Scotland. Her work usually tours in cities and she is keen to share My Muses Take Care of Me as an invitation to the local community and as an exclusive preview ahead of a national & international tour. Fleur’s collaborating artists come from all over and will be resident for two weeks to create bespoke to Letham Hall and its gorgeous dance floor. Her work is made as an elaborate ruse to invite people to dance and express themselves. She is excited to be working with Letham Nights to produce its first special dance performance into “club night.”
18th March 7pm – Saltfishforty – SOLD OUT
To those of you with tickets: expect a wild, high-octane hoolie with one of the most dynamic outfits in the UK!
To those of you without tickets: sorry! All we can offer is a place on the waiting list. Send a message if this is you. Contact details top right!
Saltfishforty are a fresh and dynamic duo hailing from the Orkney Islands in the north of Scotland. Douglas Montgomery (fiddle/viola) and Brian Cromarty (songs/guitar/mandola) combine the rich traditional music of Orkney with original compositions. The duo have four previous albums to their name: LIVE (2013), Netherbow (2010), Orkney Twister (2005) and Goose Music (2003).
The powerhouse partnership have won a devoted following throughout the UK and beyond, brilliantly transcending the duo format’s conventional confines. Linchpin figures in the currently flourishing revival of Orkney’s traditional music, they unite these deep-rooted sources with an exhilarating breadth of influence and expertise, catalysed by a creative empathy born from decades of friendship. The result is a sound of equally thrilling raw attack and multi-dimensional richness.
18th March 1.30pm – Saltfishforty Unplugged – SOLD OUT
And we tried so hard to offer you an alternative by offering this extra unplugged lunchtime session in the woods! But guess what? This sold out pretty darn quickly too. The lesson? STOP PROCRASTINATING! Get booked up and you won’t miss out.
1st April – DEC Earthquake Fundraising Ceilidh
Raising money for the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, this event organised by the Herculean Revival Ceilidh Band, is sure to have that amazing dance floor in the hall bouncing again! Support it if you can!
