Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine

Craig McMurdo Sound - Moon, June, Croon, Swoon.

Internationally acclaimed vocalist, recording artist and broadcaster Craig McMurdo, frequently compared to Harry Connick Jnr and Michael Buble, performs an eclectic mix of jazz standards, lounge and swing imbued with characteristic warmth & humour.

"…Smoother than Harry Connick Jnr…" The Guardian

"…a one man Rat Pack…"Evening Standard

"…a born entertainer…the best show I've seen…" The Scotsman

Tickets: £13/£10 concession

Jeana Leslie & Siobhan Miller

Shining stars on the UK folk scene, Jeana Leslie and Siobhan Miller are two extremely talented and multi award winning Scottish singers and musicians. Most recently, Siobhan scooped the Citty Finlayson Scots Singer of the Year award at the 2011 BBC ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards. Prior to that the duo won the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award in 2008, and then the best Up and Coming Artist in the Trad Awards and the Hancock Horizon Award in 2009.

Jeana and Siobhan, primarily perform Scottish song, incorporating fiddle, piano and Scottish stepdance into their sets. Their debut album In A Bleeze, and the follow up Shadow's Tall have both garnered very positive reviews, whilst their live performance at Celtic Connections in 2011 received a five star review in The Scotsman.

They will be accompanied by Aaron Jones, of Old Blind Dogs, on guitar.

Tickets: £10/£8 concession

Club Americana: Furnace Mountain

Last time, Furnace Mountain toured here; it was as if they turned the whole world upside down. The Virginians drew big crowds to some of the best 'live' music venues on the circuit, all stimulated by hugely-complimentary reviews.

Writing in The Herald, Rob Adams declared: "Furnace Mountain sound like a marriage between Be-Good Tanyas and the best bits of Nickel Creek - except with true Appalachian soil caked onto their boots."

The band have made legions of fans on this side of the Atlantic and in America, they count the Coen Brothers amongst their biggest admirers – not surprising as the creators of Oh Brother Where Art Thou? like their old-time music to sound authentic. Ethan Coen is such a fan that he has asked the band's Aimee Curl and Morgan Morrison to audition for a part in their next big movie.

Tickets: £12/£10 concession

Glas(s) Performance and Greenock Arts Guild present - Hand Me Down

A photographic memory. Thick brown hair that goes frizzy in the rain. A cameo brooch that belonged to my grandmother. An obsession with list making and thank you letters. Small ears. Asthma. The ability to achieve ten things before breakfast. The knowledge that it's always important to wear clean underwear as you never really know when you might have an accident… These are some of the things I got from my mother.

Hand Me Down is an original show made with ten women from the same family which aims to explore female relationships in families.

An Arches Platform 18 new work commission.

Tickets: £9/£7 concession

Aulround Production presents an evening of drama, horror, and comedy, when they perform three thirty minutes pieces.

The drama –"Gutter Flower" a Glasgow family cope with the abduction of their daughter.

The Horror "Rest in Peace" A young girl is plagued by nightmares when she moves into her new home.

The comedy "People Watching" The comic observations of a charity worker and her colourful customers.

Tickets: £8/£6 concession

Parent and Toddlers at the Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine

Parents, grandparents, childminders and carers are invited along to join in these exciting and stimulating lunch-time sessions, which include art and craft, story-telling, drama, music, movement and cinema showings. Guaranteed fun for all pre 5s

Please book in advance.

£2 per family.

Meet the Author Alex Gray

Crime writer Alex Gray was born and raised in Glasgow, after brief jobs as a folk singer, a visiting officer for the DSS, and an English Teacher. She retired from teaching, and became a full-time novelist and her first novel Never Somewhere Else introduced her character of DCI Lorimer.

Her novels include Glasgow Kiss, Five Ways to Kill a Man, Sleep Like the Dead and, the latest, A Pound of Flesh, will surely consolidate her position as the equal of world-famous crime scribblers such as Ian Rankin and Val McDermid.

Tickets £5/£2

Under the guidance of professional tutors, these classes allow you to work with a variety of approaches to painting and drawing.  Gain confidence to expand your range of skills and encourage development of your own individual style.

£42.00/£36.00 concession

Sundays will be dedicated to a variety of workshops which will concentrate on developing techniques in a range of media.

Each class will be taken by a professional tutor.

£20 per session

Are you a writer based in or around North Ayrshire? Are you seeking a little inspiration? Or maybe some high quality critiques to help bring your work up to scratch? Come along and join our workshops, meet other writers and inspire each other.

£42.00/£36.00 concession

Looking for a good book club to join? 

Come along to the hac book club which meets once a month on a Tuesday at 7.00pm.

New members are always welcome. For further information please contact us..