Music Events

Always endeavouring to explore many styles of music, every performance from the Genovia Quartet is unique and can be tailored to suit a variety of platforms. Whether you favour baroque, contemporary classical, or perhaps some jazz, folk and free improvisation, this quartet will take you on a whirlwind musical adventure.

The Genovia Quartet is a dynamic young bassoon ensemble formed of four graduates of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. From their first performance together in 2015, this quartet has had a strong musical bond and close friendship which translates into exciting and spirited performances.

The quartet clearly has four distinctive voices which they often use to represent the different sections of the orchestra, yet they will snap back to a unique blend of sound instantly when required. Putting their own stamp on even the most iconic of works allows the quartet to adapt to suit any occasion – be it traditional concert platforms, educational workshops or corporate social events.

Whilst students at the Conservatoire, the Genovia Quartet were awarded Highly Commended at the Governor’s Recital Prize for Chamber Music and subsequently received a highly coveted accolade – the Mary D Adams Prize for achievement in Chamber Music (2017). Notable performance venues include Leeds College of Music, the Merchant’s House of Glasgow, Usher Hall (Edinburgh) and Glasgow’s West End Festival where they have been invited back three years consecutively (2017-19).

In 2018, the Genovia Quartet were invited to perform at the prestigious International Double Reed Society Conference in Granada, Spain. Their recital included premières of some of their own arrangements alongside the Spanish première of ‘Pato, Pato!’ – a Genovia commission from Italian composer Raffaele de Giacometti.

In February 2020, the Genovia Quartet collaborated with Jackdaws’s Music Education Trust, and travelled to Somerset to feature ‘The Year of the Bassoon 2020’, visiting a total of 15 different schools around the County to deliver music workshops and performances.

Outwith the quartet, members of the group have performed and toured with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Ballet Orchestra among others. Keen teachers and educators, they also enjoy coaching young bassoonists as well as larger ensembles. 

The Genovia Quartet are represented by Live Music Now Scotland and Classical Musicians Scotland.

Tickets £15. School students free

New members welcome!

Every Tuesday at St Mary’s Church Hall, North Back Road , Biggar at 7.30pm

💫Biggar Corn Exchange Community Choir – starts 18 March! 

💫Love to sing? Want to meet new people? Looking for a fun way to boost your well-being?

💫Join the Biggar Corn Exchange Community Choir—a free, fun, and welcoming choir for all! No experience needed, no booking required—just turn up and sing.

🗓️Starts Tuesday 18 March (runs every Tuesday for 12 weeks)

⏰7.45pm – 9.15pm

📍Biggar Corn Exchange

Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

💫Find out more here 

Biggar RBL Pipeband practice on a Wednesday evening from 6.30 pm – 8.30pm in the RBL Hall, South Back Road, Biggar. We are always on the lookout for new players / learners. If you want to learn then feel free to come along.

Classes are held at Newlands Centre (Fridays) as well as Peebles (Thursdays).

Newlands classes are:

Junior Stardust Musical Theatre Fridays 6.00 – 6.45pm

Senior Stardust Musical Theatre Fridays 6.50 – 7.50pm

Term 3 – Friday 10th January 2025 until Friday 4th April 2025 inclusive

No class held on Friday 14th February 2025 due to half term

Term 4 – Friday 25th April 2025 until Friday 20th June 2025 inclusive

No classes held on Fridays 2nd and 23rd May due to bank holiday weekends.

New members welcome!

Every Tuesday at St Mary’s Church Hall, North Back Road , Biggar at 7.30pm

Biggar RBL Pipeband practice on a Wednesday evening from 6.30 pm – 8.30pm in the RBL Hall, South Back Road, Biggar. We are always on the lookout for new players / learners. If you want to learn then feel free to come along.

This will be your ONLY CHANCE to see the Dukes of Uke this year, as they are taking a break , but fear not, they will be back.

Clydesdale Folk Club is absolutely delighted to feature a duo that is currently taking the folk scene by storm. Both hailing from Newcastle, Tom McConville has been entertaining the folk world for some years now with his unique blend of fiddle playing, singing and storytelling. Michael Biggins can only be described as a sensational piano/keyboard player who lives in Scotland and is now a key player in the Scottish folk scene.

This event is not to be missed!! 

Classes are held at Newlands Centre (Fridays) as well as Peebles (Thursdays).

Newlands classes are:

Junior Stardust Musical Theatre Fridays 6.00 – 6.45pm

Senior Stardust Musical Theatre Fridays 6.50 – 7.50pm

Term 3 – Friday 10th January 2025 until Friday 4th April 2025 inclusive

No class held on Friday 14th February 2025 due to half term

Term 4 – Friday 25th April 2025 until Friday 20th June 2025 inclusive

No classes held on Fridays 2nd and 23rd May due to bank holiday weekends.

Mendelssohn on Mull is a week in September each year when the Artistic Directors, the Maxwell Quartet, bring eight chamber musicians at the beginning of their careers to the Isle of Mull.  The younger artists are drawn from conservatoires across the UK, and they won’t have met each other before.  They form ensembles to explore masterpieces of string chamber music, and, after a few days of intensive rehearsal, they present music at eight concerts across Mull and Iona, in public concerts that are offered on a pay-what-you-decide basis.  Each ensemble contains at least one member of the Maxwell Quartet, and there are opportunities to hear this world-class quartet on their own.

Now nearing its fortieth year, under its sixth directorship, Mendelssohn on Mull is undoubtedly the most memorable week of a future professional chamber musician’s training.  Dozens of renowned performers in the field look back on their time as a student for a week on Mull with admiration and gratitude, including two members of the Maxwell Quartet itself.

Since 2019, the charity Sound Waves SCIO has invited some of the musicians from September back to Mull in the spring to form a quartet.  Working without mentoring from the Maxwell Quartet, and based in the south of the island, the new foursome works on a programme nominated by the artistic directors, to perform it several times across Mull and Iona, in a parallel experience to that of September.  All the
Spring Music 2025 artists study at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow. Our quartet for this evening is:

Annabel Stevens – violin 

Victor Pevernagie – violin 

Lauren Azusa Jack – viola 

Shakira Segalla Humbert – cello

Programme:

HAYDN – String Quartet in C major, Op. 20 No. 2                                                                        

Felix MENDELSSOHN – String Quartet No. 2 in A, Op. 13

SHOSTAKOVICH – String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 49 

The charity Sound Waves SCIO, that administers Mendelssohn on Mull, is deeply grateful to Biggar Music Club for hosting our first Spring Music venture in mainland Scotland. Our artists come to Biggar after five performances on Mull and Iona with a thrilling programme of
music spanning the history of the quartet.

New members welcome!

Every Tuesday at St Mary’s Church Hall, North Back Road , Biggar at 7.30pm

Biggar RBL Pipeband practice on a Wednesday evening from 6.30 pm – 8.30pm in the RBL Hall, South Back Road, Biggar. We are always on the lookout for new players / learners. If you want to learn then feel free to come along.

Classes are held at Newlands Centre (Fridays) as well as Peebles (Thursdays).

Newlands classes are:

Junior Stardust Musical Theatre Fridays 6.00 – 6.45pm

Senior Stardust Musical Theatre Fridays 6.50 – 7.50pm

Term 3 – Friday 10th January 2025 until Friday 4th April 2025 inclusive

No class held on Friday 14th February 2025 due to half term

Term 4 – Friday 25th April 2025 until Friday 20th June 2025 inclusive

No classes held on Fridays 2nd and 23rd May due to bank holiday weekends.

New members welcome!

Every Tuesday at St Mary’s Church Hall, North Back Road , Biggar at 7.30pm

Biggar RBL Pipeband practice on a Wednesday evening from 6.30 pm – 8.30pm in the RBL Hall, South Back Road, Biggar. We are always on the lookout for new players / learners. If you want to learn then feel free to come along.

Classes are held at Newlands Centre (Fridays) as well as Peebles (Thursdays).

Newlands classes are:

Junior Stardust Musical Theatre Fridays 6.00 – 6.45pm

Senior Stardust Musical Theatre Fridays 6.50 – 7.50pm

Term 3 – Friday 10th January 2025 until Friday 4th April 2025 inclusive

No class held on Friday 14th February 2025 due to half term

Term 4 – Friday 25th April 2025 until Friday 20th June 2025 inclusive

No classes held on Fridays 2nd and 23rd May due to bank holiday weekends.

Harben Kay, saxophone

Peter Johnstone, piano

Multi-award-winning saxophone and piano duo, Harben Kay and Peter Johnstone, are among the most compelling musicians to have emerged on the Scottish jazz scene over the past ten years.

Both winners of the Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year title – Harben in 2015; Peter in 2012 – they have known each other since their teenage years in youth jazz orchestras and have cemented their musical relationship with enthusiastically received duo appearances at events including Perth Festival of the Arts, and in Harben’s KIM Trio .

Harben grew up in Perth and began to develop the distinctive, considered approach that won them the Best Instrumentalist award at the Scottish Jazz Awards 2022 through playing with the Fife Youth Jazz Orchestra and the Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra before studying at the Guildhall in London. Peter is also a product of the Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra and is now the resident pianist with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra. Together, Harben and Peter have a great musical understanding. Both bring original compositions to the duo to complement their imaginative interpretations of standards from the jazz canon.

New members welcome!

Every Tuesday at St Mary’s Church Hall, North Back Road , Biggar at 7.30pm

Biggar RBL Pipeband practice on a Wednesday evening from 6.30 pm – 8.30pm in the RBL Hall, South Back Road, Biggar. We are always on the lookout for new players / learners. If you want to learn then feel free to come along.

Classes are held at Newlands Centre (Fridays) as well as Peebles (Thursdays).

Newlands classes are:

Junior Stardust Musical Theatre Fridays 6.00 – 6.45pm

Senior Stardust Musical Theatre Fridays 6.50 – 7.50pm

Term 3 – Friday 10th January 2025 until Friday 4th April 2025 inclusive

No class held on Friday 14th February 2025 due to half term

Term 4 – Friday 25th April 2025 until Friday 20th June 2025 inclusive

No classes held on Fridays 2nd and 23rd May due to bank holiday weekends.

New members welcome!

Every Tuesday at St Mary’s Church Hall, North Back Road , Biggar at 7.30pm

Biggar RBL Pipeband practice on a Wednesday evening from 6.30 pm – 8.30pm in the RBL Hall, South Back Road, Biggar. We are always on the lookout for new players / learners. If you want to learn then feel free to come along.

Visiting our club for the first time are Ian and Mo Walker, Jimmy Scott and John Graham who perform a wide variety of traditional and contemporary folk songs and tunes

Classes are held at Newlands Centre (Fridays) as well as Peebles (Thursdays).

Newlands classes are:

Junior Stardust Musical Theatre Fridays 6.00 – 6.45pm

Senior Stardust Musical Theatre Fridays 6.50 – 7.50pm

Term 3 – Friday 10th January 2025 until Friday 4th April 2025 inclusive

No class held on Friday 14th February 2025 due to half term

Term 4 – Friday 25th April 2025 until Friday 20th June 2025 inclusive

No classes held on Fridays 2nd and 23rd May due to bank holiday weekends.

New members welcome!

Every Tuesday at St Mary’s Church Hall, North Back Road , Biggar at 7.30pm

Biggar RBL Pipeband practice on a Wednesday evening from 6.30 pm – 8.30pm in the RBL Hall, South Back Road, Biggar. We are always on the lookout for new players / learners. If you want to learn then feel free to come along.

Classes are held at Newlands Centre (Fridays) as well as Peebles (Thursdays).

Newlands classes are:

Junior Stardust Musical Theatre Fridays 6.00 – 6.45pm

Senior Stardust Musical Theatre Fridays 6.50 – 7.50pm

Term 3 – Friday 10th January 2025 until Friday 4th April 2025 inclusive

No class held on Friday 14th February 2025 due to half term

Term 4 – Friday 25th April 2025 until Friday 20th June 2025 inclusive

No classes held on Fridays 2nd and 23rd May due to bank holiday weekends.

Our Spring concert is on Saturday 3rd May at 7:30pm in St Mary’s Hall. Tickets £10 which includes wine and nibbles after the concert. We are singing Karl Jenkins The Armed Man (A Mass for Peace).

New members welcome!

Every Tuesday at St Mary’s Church Hall, North Back Road , Biggar at 7.30pm

Biggar RBL Pipeband practice on a Wednesday evening from 6.30 pm – 8.30pm in the RBL Hall, South Back Road, Biggar. We are always on the lookout for new players / learners. If you want to learn then feel free to come along.

Classes are held at Newlands Centre (Fridays) as well as Peebles (Thursdays).

Newlands classes are:

Junior Stardust Musical Theatre Fridays 6.00 – 6.45pm

Senior Stardust Musical Theatre Fridays 6.50 – 7.50pm

Term 3 – Friday 10th January 2025 until Friday 4th April 2025 inclusive

No class held on Friday 14th February 2025 due to half term

Term 4 – Friday 25th April 2025 until Friday 20th June 2025 inclusive

No classes held on Fridays 2nd and 23rd May due to bank holiday weekends.

New members welcome!

Every Tuesday at St Mary’s Church Hall, North Back Road , Biggar at 7.30pm

Biggar RBL Pipeband practice on a Wednesday evening from 6.30 pm – 8.30pm in the RBL Hall, South Back Road, Biggar. We are always on the lookout for new players / learners. If you want to learn then feel free to come along.

Classes are held at Newlands Centre (Fridays) as well as Peebles (Thursdays).

Newlands classes are:

Junior Stardust Musical Theatre Fridays 6.00 – 6.45pm

Senior Stardust Musical Theatre Fridays 6.50 – 7.50pm

Term 3 – Friday 10th January 2025 until Friday 4th April 2025 inclusive

No class held on Friday 14th February 2025 due to half term

Term 4 – Friday 25th April 2025 until Friday 20th June 2025 inclusive

No classes held on Fridays 2nd and 23rd May due to bank holiday weekends.

Eurovision Song Contest Watch Party
 Biggar Corn Exchange – 126 High Street, Biggar, ML12 6DL
 Date: Saturday May 17
 Time: 7:30 PM
 Price: £18

 Join us for an unforgettable evening as we stream the Eurovision Song Contest live from St. Jakobshalle, Basel!

 Sing, dance, and laugh the night away with fellow Eurovision fans.
 Enjoy nibbles and drinks from our fully stocked bar.
 Experience the show like never before with our brand-new sound system, delivering crystal-clear audio for every note and cheer.
 Plenty of space to dance and celebrate!

 Tickets Available Online:
Visit www.biggarcornexchange.org.uk

 Or in person at:
The Biggar Corn Exchange Box Office
Merry & Bright – 33-35 High Street, Biggar

 Any Queries?
Email us at info@biggarcornexchange.org.uk

 Don’t miss this fabulous celebration of Eurovision – grab your tickets now! More information is available at www.biggarcornexchange.org.uk.

New members welcome!

Every Tuesday at St Mary’s Church Hall, North Back Road , Biggar at 7.30pm

Biggar RBL Pipeband practice on a Wednesday evening from 6.30 pm – 8.30pm in the RBL Hall, South Back Road, Biggar. We are always on the lookout for new players / learners. If you want to learn then feel free to come along.

Classes are held at Newlands Centre (Fridays) as well as Peebles (Thursdays).

Newlands classes are:

Junior Stardust Musical Theatre Fridays 6.00 – 6.45pm

Senior Stardust Musical Theatre Fridays 6.50 – 7.50pm

Term 3 – Friday 10th January 2025 until Friday 4th April 2025 inclusive

No class held on Friday 14th February 2025 due to half term

Term 4 – Friday 25th April 2025 until Friday 20th June 2025 inclusive

No classes held on Fridays 2nd and 23rd May due to bank holiday weekends.

SKIPINNISH at Biggar Rugby Club 50th celebrations

Come join us at Biggar Rugby Club as we end our 50th anniversary celebration weekend with a special performance by SKIPINNISH! Our fantastic headline act, this year celebrated their 25th anniversary with an amazing concert in Edinburgh castle. Enjoy a mix of their hits over the past 25yrs.

Supporting Skipinnish are superb local band Bagri (LYFC). Bagri recently released a cover of ‘Leave A Light On’ to support the SAYFC campaign ‘Are Ewe OK’ raising awareness for mental health in farming and have been in great demand since.

Get ready for a night of fantastic music, great company, and lots of fun. This event is in person, so make sure to grab your tickets early before they sell out. Don’t miss out on this unforgettable evening of celebration and entertainment!

New members welcome!

Every Tuesday at St Mary’s Church Hall, North Back Road , Biggar at 7.30pm

Biggar RBL Pipeband practice on a Wednesday evening from 6.30 pm – 8.30pm in the RBL Hall, South Back Road, Biggar. We are always on the lookout for new players / learners. If you want to learn then feel free to come along.

Classes are held at Newlands Centre (Fridays) as well as Peebles (Thursdays).

Newlands classes are:

Junior Stardust Musical Theatre Fridays 6.00 – 6.45pm

Senior Stardust Musical Theatre Fridays 6.50 – 7.50pm

Term 3 – Friday 10th January 2025 until Friday 4th April 2025 inclusive

No class held on Friday 14th February 2025 due to half term