ord ban events

tis the season to be jolly!

2010-11-12T05:22:00.000-08:00

Friday 3^rd and Saturday 4^th December John Langan

One of the original supper club all stars, returning on his own for undoubtedly a wonderful, soulful gig. If you haven’t heard John before, do not miss this evening.

Wednesday 15^th and Thursday 16^th December Leighton Jones

The Chronic Batchula, pianist and singer with The Injuns of Skye

Sunday 19^th December Titanic Swing Night

Leighton returns with his rag-time for our screening of titanic. We’re all going down with the ship!

Dapper dress and a love of old-time cocktails compulsory.

Friday 31^st December Hogmanay Hogget Roast

Spit roast lamb, mulled cider and roast chestnuts. Wrap up warm and kick start your hogmanay.

Saturday 1^st January The John Langan Band

John returns with Double Bass Dave Tunstall and Ally on the fiddle, with a foot-stomping mix of celtic, balkan and gypsy-swing. A great start to the New Year and our final supper club at Rothiemurchus.

A musical November

2010-10-30T14:39:00.000-07:00

We've decided to pack November full of the finest music and events to ward off any grey day..

here we go..

Friday 5th of November - Backwoods Bonfire Party – Buses depart Old Bridge Inn from 9pm, £10 per head. Live Bands on the Insider Backwoods stage, Spit Roast, fireworks, mulled cider.. to attend please email insider@inshriachhouse.com with guest names to book on the bus.

Friday 12th November – an evening with David MacGregor, from the young musical core of Carrbridge. Multi-Instramentalist whizz, expect anything from classical piano and folk to funk..

Friday 19th November – our “name sake” band Ord Ban comprising of the fantastic fiddler Mr Ally Caplin, joined by Hazen Metro on the small pipes and Calum Wood on Guitar and vocals raring up for their tour of Vermont.

Opening Hours

2010-09-10T14:25:00.000-07:00

What a summer it has been, the best yet! Big thanks to all who wined and dined, gave us wonderful music til the early hours, gave us warm encouragement in our maddest of summer days, our team of butchers, bakers and candle-stick makers, our lovely ladies in the front who welcome you like it's their own and our fast thinking young team in the back who one day will make it their own.

Just for the next wee while, and following a mad-cap summer, we're trimming back our opening hours to the following -

Breakfast - each day from 9.30-11am

Lunch - each day from 12-4pm

Supper - Wednesday til Saturday 6.30-9pm

Each Sunday - Silverscreen cinema cafe

Cheers x

Pssst!

2010-07-22T06:15:00.002-07:00

Just to let you know that Leighton Jones of The Injuns will be returning to Ord Ban, this Friday evening, the 23rd of July for some more intoxicatingly wonderful piano playing.

Do come along, 'tis wonderful.

Oh and he'll also be playing along at the Old Bridge Inn on Saturday evening.

2010-07-22T06:15:00.001-07:00

If you go down to the woods....again

2010-04-23T02:54:00.000-07:00

In April 2009 the owners of Inshriach House, Ord Ban Restaurant, The Old Bridge Inn and Backwoods Productions decided to have a party. They had a venue, a bunch of friends and just 6 weeks to convince the cream of Scottish folk and contemporary artists they were serious. They sprinkled in the finest local food, washed it down with tasty ales and called it The Insider.

The Insider returns in 2010, kicking off on the 17^th June with a Festival of Firewood - a free public day organised in conjunction with the Cairngorms National Park promoting renewable resources and woodcraft - then continues from the 18^th to the 20^th with the festival proper.

We feel it is our duty to once again dish up the most talented of home grown musicians and serve them alongside the finest food in the valley, with whisky galore, welly-wanging, spit-roasts and bonfires, pimms on the lawn, cake-fights, lasers in the woods, ping-pong and sing songs the whole night long.

But we won’t stop there... we are also throwing in river adventures, workshops, storytelling; a whole new stage, a slew of incredible new bands, yurts-galore and a heavy dash of Insider magic…

Set in the gardens and grounds of the Inshriach estate, with a backdrop to the Cairngorm Mountains the Insider promises to be a truely bohemian highland garden party adventure

The sun will shine again, folk will swim in the Spey (quite against the instructions of our health and safety division!) and bonfires and impromptu woodland piano jams will light up the night.

Line-up so far, in no particular order –

Sparrow and the Workshop

Jo Mango

Admiral Fallow

Charlie McKerron & Friends

Bob Hillary and the Massive Mellow

Mary Hampton

Mike and Solveig

Mike and Georgia Heron

The Injuns

Claes Cem

Mr&Mrs Smith

Rachel Sermanni

King Arthurs Men

Washington Irving

DolphinBoy

Donna Maciocia

Mike Nisbet

The Banana Sessions

Blue Rose Code

Horndog Brass Band

Joe Acheson Quartet

Three Blind Wolves

The Woodland Orchestra

Matt Bennett (Kinky Afro)

Dj Astroboy

Trembling Bells

Mammals

Woodenbox with a Fistful of Fivers

The French Wives

John Langan Band

Feis Spe

Jack Sandison and The Holy Ghosts

The Stagger Rats

Over The Wall

Steven Milne

Infrasound

Early Grey and the Loose Leaves

Alasdair Roberts

The Boy Who Trapped The Sun

Kill It Kid

The Bonfire Band

Chris Bradley

The Breaks

The Hundred Metre Club

Robin Lewis Adams

ProVinylistKarim

The Little Kicks

Brawth

StreetThunder

Gecko3

“anarchic, beautiful, otherworldly and above all, really great craic. Leave your woes behind and hit the Insider – you won’t regret it!” Aidan O’Rourke (Lau)

“could the Insider be the best Scottish music festival this summer?” STV

“it’s really refreshing to see this truly independent festival coming back for a second year... if last years line-up is anything to go by then we are in for a treat” Peenko

www.insider2010.com

2010-03-08T05:54:00.000-08:00

a wee update

From the 22^nd of March ord bàn will be open for supper each week from Monday til Saturday. Our new monthly menu will be served from 12pm til 9pm and will feature fresh, simple food, rich in local flavour.

The Supper Club has been a great success and will continue on the last weekend of each month showcasing live acoustic music alongside a six course feasting menu featuring our best from the month.

Each Sunday evening from the 14^th of March we will host our Silver Screen cinema, showing wonderful timeless films, accompanied by light snacks, wine, popcorn and even an ice cream interval.

2010-01-27T14:19:00.000-08:00

ord ban is two

Thanks to all for another great year! We're hoping you can join us this weekend, 29th, 30th and 31st of January to aid us in celebration of our second birthday... it's going to be enormous fun!

On Friday and Saturday nights we are to host an evening of feasting and song with a six course tasting menu, some of our favourite dishes from the past few months, accompanied by some great live acoustic music. On Friday night we'll be joined by Calum Wood and Jack Sandison with their guitars and great lungs. On Saturday we're delighted to welcome back Ally Caplin and his magical fiddle.

On Sunday the 31st we're going to spit roast a great hogget from Glebe Farm, light the fires, mull the wine and dance about to the brilliant Horndog Brass Band. These guys are incredible and will prove to be a pretty lively lunchtime busk, from 1pm til 3pm. Can't wait!

Do make it down, it's going to be a great weekend!

We've also decided that it's about time we open up like a proper restaurant so from the 19th of March we'll be open each day and each night apart from Sunday where we're hoping to get our Cinema's License and show some really good art house films...cheese board, candle light, bottle of wine...nice.

Insider 2010 is coming along nicely, we're aiming for the 18th, 19th and 20th of June, again on Inshriach Estate. More news to come x

Cheers!

2010-01-10T08:49:00.000-08:00

A huge thank you to all who helped us celebrate New Year at Ord Ban.

We had three magical evenings filled with good friends and incredible musicians.

John Langan, Ally Caplin and a girl called Gwennie.. thank you!

We look forward now very much to welcoming them back and are busy planning our 2nd birthday celebrations.

Happy New Year folks, may it be filled with wonder.

Love Ord ban x

snow and loads of it!

2009-12-28T17:08:00.000-08:00

Well, the snow has truly arrived!

Following the most magical of Christmas's we've been plunged into this icicle festooned wonderland... New Year is just around the corner and it's going to be a cracker.

We've set up "under the awning" once again with our good friend, ex-head chef, best man and head of great new private dining company One Pot Borrowed, Big Al Heaney.

He has a wonderful array of winter warming stews, soup, roast chestnuts and mulled cider, each day in front of the restaurant til the 11th of January.

Hogmanay will see the return of our ever popular Hogget Roast, cooked over the coals out front of the restaurant from around 2pm til its all gone! Wrap up warm and enjoy a fireside chat with some mulled cider...

Our Hogmanay supper club is fully booked now but we still have space on the 1st and 2nd where we'll be joined by some great local musicians for a couple of really special evenings.

No doubt onwards to a beautiful burns night and 2nd birthday party.. it'll be good times and we do hope you can join us, more details to follow.

We will have a wee break from the 14th til the 21st of January but wish you a great Hogmanay party and all the very best for this coming year.

Ross & Polly Cameron

Tis the season to be jolly!

2009-12-01T03:08:00.000-08:00

New Year will see the return of the Ord Ban Supper Club; three evenings of feasting and music on the 31st/ 1st & 2nd January.
We are presenting a 6 course taster menu intermingled with a handful of local musicians. Each evening will begin at 6pm/ 6.30pm as we welcome our guests with aperitif and canapes, followed with a selection of our favorite and most popular dishes through the season. The dishes are small portions to allow you to enjoy each one and throughout the evening acoustic music will pop up hear and there so we can relax, chat by the fire and appreciate the occasion of each night.
We expect each evening to run until 10.30pm/ 11pm and would recommend moving up to the Old Bridge Inn to join in the party afterwards.
The price will be £50 per person.

Over the festive period we will be open each day except Christmas day and open for supper on the 26th and 27th of December.

We will also be stepping out front of the restaurant once again with roast chestnuts, mulled cider and hot stew to warm you up.

We look forward to welcoming you over the festivities.

Russian Vodka Masterclass

2009-09-10T02:54:00.000-07:00

Tuesday 15th of September 2009

Join us for an evening hosted by renowned Russian philosopher Dimitry Morosov filled with tradition music, speciality vodka and tasters.

Booking essential £30 pp

2009-06-05T10:00:00.000-07:00

The Insider

Ord Ban, Inchriach House and Backwoods Productions are delighted to present you with a mouth-watering banquet of home-grown music, spectacular theatrics, spit-roasts high-jinks and sensory delights...

Featuring the freshest crop of sustainabley harvested artists, tastefully accompanied by the finest seasonal local food and afull Scottish bar.

Ladies and Gentlemen welcome to The Insider.

www.insiderweekend.co.uk

Inshriach House 26th 27th and 28th of June

Weekend ticket with camping £40

Only 400 tickets available so get in quick!

Featuring....

Bombskare
Sparrow and the Workshop
Bo Jingham
Charlie McKerron
Ross Clark (and the Scarves Go Missing)
The Injuns present: Dead Man’s Waltz
Robin Adams
Woodenbox
Washington Irving
John Langan Band
The Banana Sessions
Tallulah Rendall
Will Cookson
Black Hand Gang

DJs
ProVinylist Karim
Captain Bakewell

There will be deluxe yurt camping and tipis, a full bar, excellent local food, camping in the fields and lights in the trees, face painting, a concession selling bad jerseys, tea and cakes and other delights

The Return of the Legendary Picnic Van!!

2009-05-25T08:31:00.000-07:00

This summer sees the return of our popular and much loved Ord Ban Picnic Van - hooray we hear you say!

From next week (date to be confirmed) the van will be parked at the Rothiemurchus Visitor Centre, serving up a feast of homemade, local delights throughout the summer.

We'll be doing Rothiemurchus Venison and Beef Burgers, gourmet Veggie Burgers, delicious Sandwiches and Wraps - how does Rothiemuchus Roast Beef with Celeriac Remoulade and Rocket sound? Or Glenfeshie Smoked Salmon with Beetroot and Rocket?? For the sweet toothed amongst you there will be homebakes along the lines of Chocolate Brownies, Chocolate Cookies and Flapjacks...mmmmm. To wash it all down we'll be serving top notch fairtrade coffees and teas and organic drinks alongside our regular favourites.
And just as things couldn't get better, we'll be throwing in two staff this year in the form of Wendy and Sarah who'll be keeping you up up to date via this blog with what's happening not only in the Van but at the restaurant this summer.
Watch this space!......

Many thanks...

2009-02-23T12:03:00.000-08:00

...to all who helped us celebrate turning one!

a great weekend was had by all and we look forward

now to any excuse to throw another bash.

We are now testing the water with opening for supper each

Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 6.30pm

Please do call ahead for supper reservations.

We are also now recruiting for a busy Easter and Summer

season both kitchen and front of house.

Ord Ban is One!

2009-01-12T13:12:00.000-08:00

Hard to believe we are almost one! What a year so far...

We will be celebrating with a long weekend of feasting, live music and guest chefs - expect fun, frivolity and general birthday nonsense. You are very welcome to join us, the more the merrier!

Thursday 5th - Saturday 7th February - feasting supper menus.

Sunday 8th- Live music sessions - with The Injuns, Claes Cem + local support!

Festivities

2008-12-19T09:08:00.000-08:00

Come in out of the cold, warm yourself by the fire, enjoy mulled wine,

lunchtime warmers and cosy dinners.

Join us for al fresco winter dining "under the awning"

- roast chestnuts, mulled cider and hot soup.

Open for lunch every day except Christmas.

Open for supper each Friday and Saturday from 6.30pm

Additional supper evenings - 28th and 29th of December

2008-11-20T14:02:00.000-08:00

Hogmanay Hog Roast

"Under the awning" from 2pm

Hog in a bun, mulled cider, toast your chestnuts