....in THURSO!

Fundraising Show in aid of the Nerve Centre

To be broadcast Friday 14 November at 11.30am, 10.30pm on BBC Radio Scotland, 92-95 FM, 810 MW or Sky Channel 866.  Or listen again on the internet for seven days afterwards.

Monday 22 September 7.30pm Thurso High School

Jackie Bird will host the Thurso Show

Alastair McDonald, Scottish "musical minstrel", will appear at the Show

Cameron Stout, who appeared at the Thurso Show

The Nerve Centre, Thurso, was host to BBC Radio Scotland's Let's Do The Show Right Here! team, on Monday 22 September at 7.30pm.  Thurso High School was the venue for a fundraising Show in aid of the Nerve Centre, which provides support and activities for people affected by neurological conditions such as MS, Parkinson's, ME/chronic fatigue syndrome, epilepsy, stroke, Huntington's disease etc.  

The BBC provided well-known presenter Jackie Bird as the hostess for the evening, and Scottish entertainer and "minstrel" Alastair McDonald, also performed as part of the Show.

Local artistes were (in no particular order!)

• Caithness and North Sutherland Children's Choir (thanks to Richard Mackay for photograph)
• The North Coast Jazz Band
• Karen Steven on fiddle along with John Saunders on Border Pipes
• Melvich Gaelic Choir
• Maisie Cowan on accordion
• Michael Munro, singer
• Sarah Dunnett, singer
• The Caithness Handbell Ringers   
• and Boss Hogg (Stuart Maitland's new rock band).