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Excellence in Live Arts
About UsLinlithgow Arts Guild provides the town with a cornucopia of cultural splendour!!! Well maybe not quite but our stated aim is to bring excellence in live arts to Linlithgow. We have been around for thirty-four years and have had the privilege of sharing many fine performances by artists, ensembles and orchestras of world renown. The vast majority of our performers are professional musicians. We currently have around 170 members but individual tickets are available to the general public for all of our events. Our audience numbers average well over 200 with up to 400 for major events. Each year we submit our proposed programme for the subsequent year to Enterprise Music Scotland and so far they have always supported us with funds coming from the Scottish Arts Council. We also receive a regular grant from West Lothian Council, and a number of local businesses have been generous with their sponsorship usually for a specific individual event. It is important for us to have a healthy core membership to enable us to plan confidently for the year ahead. The best artists command high fees and must be booked at least a year in advance. The membership fee is set to provide a useful discount to the purchase of single tickets. Concession and family membership rates are available. We usually stage about eight events in our season which normally runs from October through to April. We use a variety of locations in the town trying to match venue to performance as best we can. Linlithgow doesn’t have a concert hall as such but all the halls we use are well heated and have plenty of parking nearby. We find Saturdays best partly because we have the afternoon to set things up, tune pianos etc. The guild is run by an enthusiastic, hard working and entirely unpaid committee who do everything from programme planning to putting out chairs and washing dishes. There is a list of the current committee elsewhere on the web site and of course there is often scope for additional help. What do we have to offer?
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