August is jam-packed with music to suit all tastes! First up we have local singer Fiona 'Bosie' Mackenzie on Friday 6th, followed by a mix of Gaelic poetry, stories, music & song with Guthan Gàidhlig Gaelic Voices, featuring Angus Peter Campbell on Wednesday 11th. Three amazing musicians on Friday the 13th, the Alastair McCulloch Trio - Alastair McCulloch, Marc Duff and Aaron Jones. Monday the 16th sees the Australian/Scottish contemporary trio The String Contingent who play a mix of folk & bluegrass. Ali Murray launches his debut album on the 18th and then on Saturday 21st we have Pokey LaFarge & The South City Three - Americana, Appallachian, folk, bluegrass all with a Southern style! To end the month we get all jazz & blues with Peter Price on the 27th. Enjoy!

August's cinema has something for everyone starting off with two quite different 'Romcoms' - Heartbreaker (French) - the tale of a serial Don Juan who finally meets his match - and Killers (American) where an assassin finds love and finds it hard to give up his day job. The cantankerous green ogre is back for his next instalment in Shrek: Forever After (plus Donkey, Puss-in-boots and Fiona of course!) and the teenage vampires & werewolves are back we in another instalment of the Twilight saga Twilight: Eclipse. To end the month there's the family favourite Toy Story 3, Andy is off to college and taking Woody with him, but what will happen to the other toys? Have fun!

 FACLAN - Fèis Leabhraichean Innse Gall The Hebridean Book Festival

Kenneth Steven - 'Imagining Things'

Laxdale school, an Lanntair & Castlebay school.

Douglas Brunton - 'The Chess Piece Magician'

An Lanntair, Uig school, Sgoil Lioncleit, Daliburgh School & Castlebay school.

Lari Don - 'The Big Bottom Hunt'

An Lanntair, Sir E Scott school Tarbert.

Anne Lorne Gillies - 'Can gun robh'