Islay Visitors Welcome Evenings 2009

I received the 2009 dates for the Visitors Welcome Evenings last week. The evenings are organised by the Islay & Jura Tourism and Marketing Group. This years welcome evenings take place Monday nights at 8pm, admission is free. The Welcome Evenings are always fun and interesting and I can certainly recommend them if you want to learn a bit more about Islay and like to be entertained with music, song, dance and receive useful information at the same time. The evening usually ends with a raffle, a dram and clootie dumpling.

I have updated the Islay Calendar with the dates and venues which you can find below as well:

May
3rd (Sun) - Ballygrant Hall, 11th - Lagavulin Distillery, 18th - Islay Natural History Centre, 25th - Feis Ile (No Visitors’ Evening)

June
1st - Bunnahabhain Distillery, 8th - Bruichladdich Distillery, 15th - Outback Gallery Sanaigmore, 22nd - Jura Hall, 29th - Bowmore Distillery

July
6th - Laphroaig Distillery, 13th - Port Mor Centre, 20th - Ardbeg Distillery, 27th - Bruichladdich Distillery

August
3rd - Bowmore Distillery, 10th - Port Mor Centre, 17th - Ardbeg Distillery, 24th - Islay Natural History Centre, 31st - Machrie Hotel

September
7th - Gaelic College, 14th - Lagavulin Distillery, 21st - Jura Hall, 28th - Laphroaig Distillery

October
5th - Ballygrant Hall, 12th - Sanaigmore Gallery, 19th - Bunnahabhain Distillery, 26th - RSPB Centre - Gruinart

Armin made a video at the first welcome evening of this year during the Walk Islay week where you can see and hear Norma Munro singing Westering Home.