As Dornoch, Creich and Kincardine Churches work as a group to not only worship we wish to share social time and this Ceilidh will be an opportunity to get to know each other while enjoying local talent, either dancing or watch dancers to excellent Rogart Ceilidh Band.

Recently, over 80 people enjoyed Ukrainian food and friendship organised by our Cathedral Womens Group. The West Church Hall was beautifully decorated in Ukrainian national colours.

After the lunch was opened with prayer we had one minutes silence and a toast with UZVAR a tasty beverage made with apples, honey and spice. The Toast was: Glory to Ukraine – Glory to the Heroes

We sipped our Uzvar and 3 times called out WOODMO (Bon Appel).

The Soup course was BORSCHT which is beetroot soup served with sour cream. This was followed by PIEROGI / VARENYKI, savoury vegetarian dumplings. To finish we tasted KIELBASA, which is a chocolate cake, and served with tea and coffee.

Nearly £1,000 was raised with all proceeds being donated to a Church of Scotland link Church in Hungry where Ukrainian refuges are safe from the war.

Elikuren is a young chamber choir of 14 people from Wunstorf near Hannover in Germany. The choir regularly performs locally and love to travel having had tours of Egypt in 2011, Ghana in 2013, Iceland in 2015, Canada in 2017 and Ireland in 2018. Charity concerts they organised benefitting the construction of a children’s hospital in Ghana.
Christiane Kampe says, “We are very excited to visit Dornoch on our tour of Scotland this year. The repertoire we will perform includes classical German pieces by Bach and Mendelssohn. Our performance will be an Evensong with prayer opening and closing the service. We are happy to perform free of charge. We would like donations to benefit a charitable cause.”