tis the season to be jolly!

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

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.