Forthcoming Events

  Welcome to  AIR ALBA (Gaelic - ‘About Scotland’)
       At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe     
August 6th  to 29th   2010












                           Thanks for use of Burns image to owner Pete Heywood   and artist Jan Miller  

The Royal Oak Bar
downstairs lounge

1 Infirmary Street, Edinburgh,
just off South Bridge opposite Cafe Nero at Blackwell’s bookshop.

Come & Ceilidh (visit) with us in our cosy 30-seat room in the heart of Edinburgh
with Song, Story, Music & Crack  to warm your heart & tickle your fancy .

 3  Different, original shows  Fridays , Saturdays & Sundays,             
                          each  one a fresh view ‘about Scotland’.     Songs, stories and music on the
melodeon   

Tickets:  £7/ 5  
from The Royal Oak (in person only) from August 1st  onwards


AIR ALBA

    AFTERNOONS AT 3PM
                       
      SHOWS  RUN FOR  A GENEROUS HOUR








































          Four -star review * * * *
Festival e-bulletin, "Three Weeks" reviewed last year's   'Nancy's Burns'

‘Nancy Nicolson enchants her audience in the Royal Oak's intimate venue  with
tales of childhood, Scottish folklore and of course,  Robert Burns.
As she invites volunteers to share a dram you think of family & fireside story-          
sharing;                                                                                                                                            
.. an experience unlike any other;                                                                                             
.. one is left feeling oddly changed  as the show ends & the spell breaks.        
Nancy's talk is informative,  her songs delightful.                                                        
You'll never feel more at home at the Fringe.’   
                                        
AIR ALBA 1          FRIDAYS                         3PM
AUG 6, 13, 20, 27
Nancy’s Whisky
Songs & music of  Whisky including the hilarious true  tale  of the
illicit  still beside the Nicolson peat bank in Caithness.  



AIR ALBA 2           SATURDAYS                3PM  
AUG 7,14, 21, 28
Oats & Oysters                                                                         
The Scots and Food: Scotland has some of the  finest food & one
of the  worst diets in the world.  How do we manage that?  With a
laugh, that’s how!  



AIR ALBA 3       SUNDAYS                  3PM  
AUG 8,15,22,29                                                                                        
The Reel o Stumpie                                                                                
The Scots and Sex                                                                                  
(adult content, bawdy songs, over 18s only)
From the Garden of Eden to the gardens of Edina,                   
Nancy explores these fields of delight.


Although we have no Burns show this year,                                  
RAB features  in all  shows above.                                                              
He was an exciseman and he loved whisky.                                             
He grew food and he wrote about  food.                                                    
He merrily danced his stumpie all around.