Ellen invites us all to Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society’s Spring concert at 3.00pm on Sunday 24 March in the Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy. Their pleasant and varied programme includes Finlandia (Sibelius), Pale Blue Dot (a trumpet concerto) (Gourlay), Land of Mountain and the Flood (McCunn), Diversions on a Theme by Dr Arne (Cedric Thorpe-Davie), Thunder and Lightning Polka (Strauss), and Star Wars (Williams). Details by clicking the image.

Our friends at Opera Caledonia invite us to an evening of romantic operatic classics and song, complemented by fine wine and chocolates, at 7.30pm–9.00pm on Wednesday 14 February, at the Institut français d’Écosse, Edinburgh. Featuring Judith Howarth, soprano, with Derek Clark at the piano.

Limited tickets at £15 available via Eventbrite.

Anne Dolbear, our never-flagging Treasurer, invites us to enjoy Dalgety Players’ latest panto production at Dalgety Parish Church.

The bean first gets growing on Tuesday 23 January and the show runs until Saturday 27 January,  with Tuesday-Friday evening performances at 7.15pm, and Saturday performances at 11.00am and 2.15pm.

Tickets at £10 for adults and £7 for concessions (children under 16, students in full-time education, senior citizens) are available at www.dalgetyplayers.org.uk/boxoffice.

Ellen invites us all to Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society’s first concert of the season at 7.30pm on Tuesday 3 October in the Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy. Their programme “offers a pleasant variety of orchestral music which includes the HMS Pinafore Overture, Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture, de Falla’s Ritual Fire Dance, ‘The Baptism of Adam Smith’, a composition commissioned from the DGASS orchestra oboe player, John Gourlay, ‘By the Sleepy Lagoon’ (the ‘Desert Island Discs’ theme), Handel’s Water Music, and the Gold and Silver Waltz (Lehar). Details by clicking the image.

Our President, Frances McCafferty, will be giving a short concert in Dunfermline Abbey next Sunday, 3 September, at 12 noon. The programme will last around 45 minutes and has birds as its theme. Frances will be accompanied by Matthew Beetschen, the Abbey Organist.

Teas and coffees are available from about 11.30am and can be taken into the pews for the concert. Entry is free and ticketless and the Abbey disabled ramp is finally open, so access is available for all. Church-goers for whom 12n would otherwise be too early are invited to attend the Abbey service at 10.30am, by way of a change!

Do head for Limekilns Parish Church at 7:30pm on Thursday 25 May for a concert by the Kingdom Singers, conducted by Willie Campbell, when you can enjoy their usual eclectic mix of music, and support Willie and the many other friends who sing with DGASS. The concert will be repeated the following evening (7:30pm on Friday 26 May) in the Annexe Studio Theatre at Dunfermline’s Carnegie Hall. Note that seating capacity in the Annexe is limited, so you are advised to contact Willie or another choir member to reserve your space.

As winter approaches and fuel bills skyrocket, the Dunfermline Foodbank will undoubtably be under even more pressure to help people out in the coming months, so our friends at Strictly Songtime thought they could do their bit to help by staging a fund-raising concert. They being on this occasion Anne Diack, Greig Hill, Ian & Lorna Brown and Susan Burnett, abetted by Reece Smith and the Morrison clan of Steve, Sam and Oliver, with Andrew Thomson on the keys.

An evening of music theatre songs – well-known and not so – in the St Andrew’s Erskine Parish Church in Robertson Road, Dunfermline at 7:30pm on Saturday 12 November. Tickets £10 from 01383 724487 and strictlysongtime@ukgateway.net, with all food donations gratefully received on the night.

So why not leave Strictly Come Dancing on the i-player for later and join Strictly Songtime (they had the name first!) for a night at the musicals, and boost the Dunfermline Foodbank’s coffers and supplies!