Seven top tips for what's on in the North from Friday, April 19 to Thursday, April 25

Every week What's On North offers up seven top picks from across the north of Scotland for your entertainment to ponder. This week (Friday, April 19 to Thursday, April 25) features musical theatre, a hip-hop/funk act, two Blazin’ fiddles members as a duo for the first time, funk, trad and the sounds of the 60s ...

1 The Addams Family is on at Elgin Town Hall, being staged by the St Giles Theatre Group from Wednesday to Saturday, April 24-27, at 7.30pm.

With music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and the book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, The Addams Family is a musical comedy based upon the characters created by Charles Addams in his single-panel gag cartoons, which depict a ghoulish American family with an affinity for all things macabre.

Although numerous film and television adaptations exist, the musical is the first stageshow based on the characters. For tickets go to: www.elgintownhall.co.uk

2 At the Old Bridge Inn in Aviemore on Easter Sunday, April 21, there’s a return visit by acclaimed Glasgow based hip-hop/funk/rock act, DopeSickFly, with Karawane and OC DJing.

There will be a barbecue and outside DJ before the gig and the venue will be serving food all day, with a bonfire at the end.

For tickets see www.ticketweb.uk/event/easter-sunday-special-with-dopesickfly-

3 Blazin’ Fiddles compadres Bruce MacGregor (pictured) and Anna Massie will get together for the first time as a duo to play MacGregors Bar for the regular Inverness Acoustic and Folk Club on Friday, April 19, from 9pm.

4 Edinburgh funksters James Brown Is Annie return to Mad Hatters, Inverness, on Saturday, April 20.

They last stopped off at the venue last October and will no doubt be playing tracks from their latest album JBIA II (available from www.jbia.co.uk).

The band – featuring Caithness’s own Barry Gordon – have released in the last week their new video for All The Love, which is an original song produced by Hamish Stuart (Average White Band, Paul McCartney Band, Chaka Khan, Aretha Franklin, Quincy Jones) and recorded at Chamber Studio, Edinburgh.

For anyone who hasn’t heard their sound, you can get in the mood by heading to their bandcamp page: www.jbia.bandcamp.com

5 Eddi Reader brings some special guests with her to Eden Court, Inverness, on Sunday, April 21, her first visit since the special Phil Cunningham Christmas show – when Eddi was one of a set of special guests invited!

From the traditional to the contemporary, Eddi brings to life all forms of song with an emotional depth and unique take that is her special DNA.

The show starts at 7.30pm with tickets priced £12. For details: www.eden-court.co.uk

6 Traditional threesome Talisk play a one-off Highland date at the Ceilidh Place, Ullapool, on Wednesday, April 24.

The musicians were nominated for folk band of the year at the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards in 2017 and won the Horizon Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in the same year.

But in the 2018 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Mohsen became the youngest-ever winner of the musician of the year title, the Glasgow concertina ace already the winner of BBC Radio Scotland’s young traditional musician in 2016.

7 And if it’s a touch of retro you are after in the music department, tap into the decade-strong power of 60s specialists The Revolvers at Eden Court on Tuesday, April 23. Starts 7.30pm, tickets £19.50.

For events listings for April, click here: https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/lifestyle/whats-on-this-easter-and-beyond-176978/