
An Xcel-lent Christmas party!
Week: 50 | 15th December 2022 | Arts and Entertainment Community NewsAlmost 60 youngsters enjoyed a brilliant Youth Club Christmas VIP night last week. This was a joint event…

What the Dickens? It’s Panto time!
Week: 49 | 8th December 2022 | Arts and Entertainment Community NewsVery few seats left for this year’s Muckle Toon Extravaganza Christmas is coming so it must be pantomime…

Gavin gets the gong!
Week: 46 | 17th November 2022 | Arts and Entertainment Community NewsPassionate volunteer recognised at top awards event Congratulations to E&L columnist Gavin Graham whose sterling work as a…

January, February, now Langholm in November
Week: 37 | 16th September 2022 | Arts and Entertainment NewsSinger Barbara Dickson returns to The Buccleuch Award-winning singer Barbara Dickson will embark on a thirteen date UK…

Keeping it Country in Langholm
Week: 35 | 2nd September 2022 | Arts and Entertainment NewsBack by popular demand, following a sell-out tour last year, the popular “Keep it Country Show” returns to…

Spooky Men: a capella quirkiness
Week: 29 | 22nd July 2022 | Arts and Entertainment ReviewBy Sheena Harvey, Castle Bytham, Lincs A collection of ten men singing unaccompanied about their eyebrows does not…

Aussie singers to spook The Buccleuch
As thunderous as a herd of wildebeest, as sly as…

Drummer Kyle kills it with Brandon & Co
Sheer delight is etched on Kyle Grieve’s face as he…

Brandon aims to push the right buttons in Langholm
By Penny Johnstone Lovers of traditional Scottish folk music are…

Janet's in the frame for gallery as Phil steps down
By Nick Brownlee It’s the end of an era at…

A stitch in time
400 years marked with wonderful tapestry

Stars set to Keep it Country in Langholm
LIVE country music is coming back with a bang at…

Langholm People
OutPost Arts sets portrait challenge

Lucy speaks for the arts on cultural body
Langholm creative joins DG Unlimited to help support recovery

Scotland’s orchestra, digitally
THE Royal Scottish National Orchestra is bringing audiences its first…

Seaweed and sparrows
Margaret Walty has opened her Autumn exhibition “Here be Dragons”…

Centre bids for funding to survive the long term
Langholm’s popular performing arts venue is vital to economy

RAVE REVIEWS: Twice Brewed Inn, Bardon Mill
TWICE Brewed Inn sits on the edge of the Military…


RAVE REVIEWS: Travel: Petra, Jordan
Week: 15 | 13th April 2020 | Arts and Entertainment ReviewReviewers: Tony Parker & Avril Bannatyne AT THE end of February Avril and I fulfilled lifelong ambitions to…

Restaurant Review : The Boathouse Glencaple
Week: 14 | 2nd April 2020 | Arts and Entertainment Lifestyle ReviewReviewer: Clare Rogerson Boreland We pulled up into a nice large carpark with spectacular views over Criffel and…

RAVE REVIEWS... Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow
Week: 13 | 26th March 2020 | Arts Arts and Entertainment ReviewA RAINY day in Glasgow; what is a girl to do? A morning at the Kelvingrove Museum sounded…

Langholm goes live!
Week: 13 | 26th March 2020 | Arts and Entertainment NewsA NEW project has been started during this difficult time of social distancing and isolation and it is…

OH CALAMITY!
Week: 10 | 5th March 2020 | Arts and Entertainment NewsIT’S hotting up for the cast of Calamity Jane after their move from rehearsals in the Telford Room…

Farmers of Eskdale have a ball
Week: 08 | 20th February 2020 | Arts and Entertainment Farming and EnvironmentTHE annual Eskdale farmers’ dance was held in the school sports hall earlier this month. The photo shows…

Upland bursary for Langholm ceramicist
Organisation will provide programme of mentoring and support EMERGING ceramic…

Town’s ambition to be a creative place
OutPost Arts receives funding to run art clubs for all…

Purr-fect” partners cool as cats on the ice
Libby and Mark score sevens and go forward to next…

Libby... the finest girl!
A SENSATIONAL performance on the ice produced an astounding first-round…

A garden of delights from GQT
IT MAY be the bleak midwinter but that doesn’t mean…

Have Pen Will Travel
HAVE Pen Will Travel is the most apt name for…

Fiasco of farcical fun: Langholm’s popular am-drammers play to big houses at The Buccleuch Centre
Langholm Operatic and Dramatic Society presented ‘Clutching at Straws’ to…

Rave Review | BARBARA DICKSON & Nick Holland
Venue: The Buccleuch Centre, Langholm | Reviewer: Rachel Norris SCOTLAND’S…

Secret OutPost: Auction and exhibition at High Street’s new venue
THE Look Out in Langholm High Street will hold a…

Centre of excellence wins regional award: Great team work from staff and volunteers gets recognition
LANGHOLM’S successful performing arts centre is the toast of the…

What a blooming farce!
Take one pushy businesswoman and one womanising roué plus his…

Little White Rose blossoms
TAKE a stroll down Langholm High Street and pause for…

Heartening music: Aly and Phil give thumbs-up to fundraiser
Week: 41 | 10th October 2019 | Arts and Entertainment LifestyleEVERYONE was in good heart for the Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham gig at the Buccleuch Centre recently.…

Artist portrays a hill shepherd’s life
Week: 38 | 19th September 2019 | Arts and Entertainment LifestyleLANGHOLM & District Art Club welcomed Felicite Scott and Lorraine Morton to present an illuminating introduction into the…

New hub for Outpost Arts: Focal point for arts organisation will bring great benefits
Week: 33 | 15th August 2019 | Arts and Entertainment NewsAN EXCITING new opportunity for creative people of all ages is being set up in Langholm. OutPost Arts…

Michael's art is Finding the Light
Week: 33 | 15th August 2019 | Arts and EntertainmentFans of the work of Claygate-based artist Michael Batey can see a selection of his work in a…

Be part of the annual spectacle: Costumes, make-up, backdrops - there are roles for all comers
Week: 21 | 23rd May 2019 | Arts and EntertainmentCENTRE Stage Community Theatre has been going strongly in Langholm for more than 10 years. The annual pantomime…

Exhibiting a passion for wildlife
Week: 19 | 9th May 2019 | Arts and EntertainmentWendy Patterson of Newcastleton is currently exhibiting her paintings in the Welcome to Langholm shop in Langholm’s Market…

Cracking Copshaw Cabaret: Standing ovation for society’s first big production
Copshaw Cabaret brought the audience to its feet on both…

A ray of African sunshine
A GROUP of 20 primary school children from Uganda, who…

Testament to modest artist: Many treasures on display in retrospective exhibition
By Margaret Walty of Langholm HELEN Irving, who died last…

The Holm’s got talent, too: This week’s Copshaw Cabaret’s blog features Sophie Mitchell
Sophie Mitchell is 16 and currently studying at Hawick High…

More cabaret characters: Mother and daughter take to the stage in Copshaw
Julie Thomson and daughter Holly talk about their involvement in…

My Fair Lady hits the high notes for LAODS: Amateur society delighted with audience reaction to latest production
Quite often, one approaches a local amateur production not knowing…

Artists put on a fine retrospective
MANY thanks go to all the people who answered the…