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Heartland FM is attracting a worldwide audience through live streaming on the web. The Community radio station upped its game in the summer, when programmes started to be available to listeners everywhere through home computers and smart-phones. Now texts from fans are coming in from such far flung places as California and Hong Kong.
Bruce Patterson, Heartland's Station Manager and Breakfast presenter says he's had emails from New Zealand, France and Canada. "We're able to offer varied music programming and the positive feedback has surprised us, people are regularly tuning into Heartland even though they live in another time zone."
This week alone, texts have come into the Pitlochry studio from Bonn in Germany and Buenos Aires, the Argentinian capital. Abbie in Buenos Aires texted a message into John Dare's Lunchtime Live. "I'm listening to your show on my BlackBerry while I'm going to work. I'm loving it. I'm planning on visiting Scotland in May-June, so I'm getting familiarized with the accent."
Until recently the station's reach was limited by analogue transmitters, meaning people living in Perthshire's glens and hilly areas were unable to pick up the radio signal, even though Heartland was their local station. The new global possibilities will be a boost for advertisers hoping to see their investment pay off.
Bruce Patterson is upbeat about the stations expanding horizons. "We're adding two new drivetime shows, covering Monday and Friday afternoons and another three hours on Saturdays. From the end of the month, Heartland will average in excess of ten hours of live broadcasting a day."
We now have a dedicated email address for you to send us any information on events that are happening in and around Highland Perthshire.
Please email us on whatson@heartlandfm.co.uk
Heartland FM has created a new slot for St Johnstone fans across Perthshire. The new football feature, called All things Saints, is dedicated to following the trials and tribulations of the Perth -based team.
Heartland's Bruce Patterson chats to Jamie Beatson, a lifelong Saints fan and freelance journalist. Bruce and Jamie recap all the action from the weekend before and look forward to the game on Saturday. The starting point for their banter is honest comment, posted by the fans themselves.
Jamie, (25) has made his mark managing the online fanzine, www.weareperth.co.uk. The internet forum hosts discussion the latest St. Johnstone action and has thousands of members wishing to have their say on their team.
Heartland FM Station Manager and Saints supporter, Bruce Patterson is enthusiastic about the significance of Heartland's new football focus. “It's good to bring this kind of feature to air, too many sports reports focus on the West Coast, but during this slot we only discuss our local team, St Johnstone.
Bruce says Heartland FM is keen to bring more sport to the airwaves. "I would like to expand our local sports features and would love to hear from anyone willing to bring us a regular report from other sources, amateur football, golf, swimming whatever the interest is Heartland would love to hear from you.”
All Things Saints goes out every Friday at 10.30am. It's repeated on a Saturday morning at 9.30 during Ross' Rewind.
On Friday, 25th November, Heartland was Highly Commended in the Best Business in the Community category, seeing off entries by Perth College UHI and financial giant, Aviva. The overall category winner was Horsecross Arts at the Perthshire Chamber of Commerce Business Star Awards.
Pitlochry Festival Theatre
This year’s Winter Words programme features a huge variety of authors, wordsmiths, adventurers and broadcasters including: Neil Oliver, Sir Chris Bonington, Alistair Darling, Janice Galloway, Sue Lawrence, Dennis Canavan, Liz Lochhead, Mairi Hedderwick, Simon Watt, Sara Sheridan, Tom Devine, Alison Weir, Alex Gray...
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The Gallivanters Ceilidh Band
The Gallivanters are professional musicians and have been established as a band for over six years. During that time we have played many weddings, ceilidh dances, weddings, birthday parties and corporate events.
We are a five piece Ceilidh Band based in Perthshire comprising both accordion, double bass, fiddle, guitar, mandolin and whistles. The combination of instruments gives a bright and vibrant yet traditional sound.
We play a variety of Scottish and Irish tunes for dancing as well as singing Scottish, Irish, Country and even Beatles songs. we also call and show the dances and interact with the guests to encourage them to join in so that everyone has a good time at the ceilidh dance party.
Find out more here www.thegallivanters.com
Listen to a clip of "Flowers of Edinburgh" from our album "Once Upon a Ceilidh"
Highland Perthshire Communities Partnership is currently gathering information on the true picture of broadband provision in Perthshire. This information will be critical to formulating a strong case for UK and Scottish government funding to improve the existing service. To take part in this survey we need your broadband speeds.To do this go to www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk and click begin. This will give you two figures, an upload and a download speed. Send these, along with your postcode and the time of day you did the test to brucehpcp@hotmail.co.uk, marking it "Broadband Survey". We need as many people as possible to take part so please pass this message on to all your neighbours or send it as an email to everyone you know in Highland Perthshire.
Free music course for 12-18 year olds!
St Johnstone FC is set to run a free music programme throughout the next year as part of the SPL Music Box project. The first block of sessions will take place at McDiarmid Park on Thursday evenings from 6-7.30pm and is open to 12-18 year olds.
Session will be delivered in partnership with Horsecross Arts, and will take place from 3rd November until 15th December, resuming again after the Christmas break.
Music Box will give teenagers the chance to try their hand at a range of popular music instruments including guitar, drums, bass, vocals, keyboards, DJing and MC as well as opportunities for collaboration, band work, recording, songwriting and performance. Music Box is completely free, however spaces are limited and booking is essential. Places can be reserved using the following methods:
Jenn Minchin
Head of Creative Learning
Horsecross Arts Limited 185 High Street, Perth PH1 5UW
Direct line: 01738 477 722
Mobile: 07702 342 669
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