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Dornoch Cathedral
Church of Scotland
Dornoch
IV25 3SH
Services
Sunday at 11:00am
Sunday at 11:00am
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Interim Moderator
Rev. Alistair Drummond
01349 852480
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Locum Minister
Carol Anne Porter
07400 313303
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Session Clerk
Mrs Liz Manson
Lamington, Invergordon
IV18 0PE
07845 970923
Dornoch Cathedral
Church Of Scotland,
Dornoch
IV25 3SH
Session Clerk
07845 970923
Elikuren Chamber Choir: Sunday 6th August for our Sundays at 7
Elikuren is a young chamber choir of 14 people from Wunstorf near Hannover in Germany. The choir regularly performs locally and love to travel having had tours of Egypt in 2011, Ghana in 2013, Iceland in 2015, Canada in 2017 and Ireland in 2018. Charity concerts they organised benefitting the construction of a children’s hospital in Ghana.
Christiane Kampe says, “We are very excited to visit Dornoch on our tour of Scotland this year. The repertoire we will perform includes classical German pieces by Bach and Mendelssohn. Our performance will be an Evensong with prayer opening and closing the service. We are happy to perform free of charge. We would like donations to benefit a charitable cause.”
Summer Sundays @ 7
Our first summer Sundays @ 7 is on 4th June. These are short informal acts of worship during the summer months which consist of lots of singing mingled with prayers and readings Everyone is welcome.
Services will be led by members, adherents and friends of Dornoch Cathedral with a good variety of themes. Please join our first evening of praise which will be led by our Locum Minister, Rev Carol-Anne Porter on Sunday 4th June When is it – 7pm
Everyone is welcome with our Guild, Womens Group, Junior BBs, Cathedral Choir and even a Choir from Germany one evening. Relax as the weekend draws to a close in the wonderful surrounds of our ancient Cathedral each Sunday until the end of August.
Come and help us raise the roof in our Songs of Praise to Our Lord!
Informal Concerts in Dornoch Cathedral on 30th May & 3rd June
An Informal Concert, by Index Cantorum on
In Dornoch Cathedral
Come and enjoy an hour of musical magic.
All are welcome.
Donations towards the upkeep of Dornoch Cathedral
Concert in aid of Highland Support Refugees – 30th June at 7pm
Highland Support Refugees was started in Inverness in 2015 and has volunteers from Shetland to Moray. They collect donations of clothing, toiletries, tents and sleeping bags and once sorted, packed and sent to camps across Europe with over 200 tons of aid dispatched so far.
They also seek to engage with local communities about the refugee crisis and resettling refugees in the Highlands. Simon Evans, violinist teaches English to refugees, having taught Syrians in Dingwall and Inverness and currently teach Ukrainians on the Black Isle and Afghan teenagers in Invergordon.
Julian Davis has played piano since childhood and obtained the LRAM diploma in the 1980s. He worked until recently as Professor of Medicine at Manchester University and Manchester Royal Infirmary, while remaining active as an amateur musician. He has regularly given recitals as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles and often with Simon having played together since 1992.
Entry is by donation and you can look forward to enjoying varied music with Beethoven’s Spring Sonata a beautiful sunny piece with wonderful melodies. The Bartok is full of Hungarian Folk tunes and brims with energy. The Richard Strauss sonata is an exciting youthful piece with an extremely virtuosic piano part.
Concert Scottish Opera Pop-up Opera Sunday 24th June
On Sunday 24th June the Scottish Opera perform in the West Church Hall. The production comprises of 30 minute samples of operas such as Die Fledermaus and Eugene Oregin with a storyteller and two singers plus instrumentalists. Tickets available at www.scottishopera.org.uk
Christian Aid Week 14th to 20th of May
Here are links to a lovely presentation and an interesting video showing some of the work that Christian Aid do. We shared these in worship on Sunday 14th May as Christian Aid week begins.
Links…
Presentation – The story of Esther and her pigeon peas
Video link – Welcome from Malawi
Choral Concerts at the Cathedral
Sunday, 14th May at 7pm in Dornoch Cathedral
ON Thursday 8th June @ 8pm
Music of Love and Loss | choral music from 17th & 18th century Italy