Welcome To The Aboyne and Deeside Festival

The Aboyne and Deeside Festival is an arts festival which takes place in and around the month of July.  This year it is celebrating its 20th birthday.   Whatever your interest, we hope you found something to appeal with shows including ‘Abba Experience,’  ‘More Frank and Ella’ (Todd Gordon and Jacqui Dankworth) and ‘The Nearly Naked Chef’ (Hardeep Singh Kohli).  There was chamber music in country houses with the Aberdeen Chamber Players, Marinda, William Conway and several others.  With workshops, cinema and exhibitions the Festival has brought a feast of arts and music again this year.   

Over the years it has brought many famous names to Aboyne and Deeside, including Patrick Moore, Barry Norman Prunella Scales, Timothy West and Roy Hattersley, Martin Bell and Hannah Gordon amongst others.

Using venues situated throughout this area of outstanding natural beauty the Festival aims to promote all forms of art and culture through an annual programme of events not on the whole otherwise available in Deeside.  Festival events are concentrated in the month of July, but wide-screen films are shown by the Festival throughout the year in the Deeside Theatre.

Whether you be resident or visitor, we hope that you found something to enjoy in the Festival this year and that you will return for more next!

Meantime, keep up with all the lastest films in the cinema.

Aboyne and Deeside Festival 2011 has been kindly supported by Shell UK and 'At the Sign of the Black Faced Sheep', Aboyne.  We are indebted to all those who continue to work voluntarily on behalf of this community enterprise.