Tickets for the Tim Burgess acoustic concert at FRETS on Friday 26th Feb 2021 in the Strathaven Hotel sold out within minutes. Demand was such that Eventbrite's website crashed several times, sorry if you didn't get tickets. Tim's special guests will be Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), David Scott (The Pearlfishers), and Duglas T. Stewart (BMX [...]
Eventful first month for Frets Creative and Creative Strathaven at 2 Barn Street Mews
We were delighted when the Creative Strathaven CIC shop and gallery opened up in our creative hub at 2 Barn Street Mews, Strathaven on July 18th. After a hectic week of set-up and a busy first weekend, the shop has seen a steady flow of customers through the door to see the wide range on [...]
ROBYN HITCHCOCK acoustic concert at FRETS, Friday 1st Oct 2021
Robyn Hitchcock at FRETS, 1st Oct 2021 FRETS is delighted to announce that Robyn Hitchcock will be performing an acoustic concert at the Strathaven Hotel on Friday 1st Oct 2021. Although this concert doesn't take place till next year, it is strongly advised to purchase tickets asap as it will probably sell out. Tickets go [...]
FRETS CONCERTS – Update
We will shortly be announcing new acoustic concerts at FRETS in the Strathaven Hotel for 2021, starting with an announcement this Tuesday 25th Aug at 10am. We can't say too much just now unfortunately, but it's a much respected artist and the date for your diary is Fri 1st Oct 2021. Over the next month [...]
Amazing feedback from our first week
Frets Creative and Creative Strathaven: A two minute walk from the Common Green. It's beside The Barn by Emily Ross. It's a huge welcome to 2 Barn Street Mews in Strathaven! Home of Creative Strathaven and Frets Creative - two different but like minded organisations who want to build a creative community hub in the [...]
Exciting new partnership with Creative Strathaven CIC
The retail space will be from the door to the right with the gallery space in the middle room. Since we signed the lease in February 2020 we have been working on exciting plans to use our unit at 2 Barn Street Mews as a creative hub for the community, featuring workshops, creative writing courses [...]
TEENAGE LOCKDOWN Katy Lironi/Frets Words
Matilda performs at Frets Kitchen Concerts TEENAGE LOCKDOWN For the last 3 months my husband and I have been in lockdown with our 5 teenage children. Actually, that’s a lie, our eldest turned 20 on the first day of lockdown. To celebrate we started our series of Frets Kitchen Concerts on Facebook. I was a [...]
KING CREOSOTE at FRETS – Fri 30th Oct 2020
KING CREOSOTE in acoustic concert at FRETS , The Strathaven Hotel, on Friday 30th Oct 2020. Tickets available at the Eventbrite link below from 7pm this Friday 26th June. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/king-creosote-acoustic-concert-at-frets-tickets-109987545710 A Short History of King CreosoteIf you build a fence then you have to treat it, as any DIY buff will tell you. You have [...]
THE SKINNER SONGBOOK / FRETS / FRIDAY 20th NOV 2020
Tickets on sale now. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-skinner-songbook-tickets-109608997462 THE SKINNER SONGBOOK Acoustic Concert at FRETS Friday 20th November, 2020 The Strathaven Hotel THE SKINNER SONGBOOK is a new troubadour concert show produced by vocalist Grahame Skinner. The idea of the show is to highlight songs Grahame enjoys performing live as a vocalist, including songs from his own repertoire [...]
GRANT-LEE PHILLIPS at FRETS, Friday 22nd Jan 2021
Tickets are available now at this Eventbrite link https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/grant-lee-phillips-at-frets-friday-22nd-jan-2021-the-strathaven-hotel-tickets-107692214312 With the release Widdershins in 2018, Grant-Lee Phillips invests the insight, nuance, and wit that has distinguished his songcraft over the past three decades in a riveting dissection of today’s fraught social landscape. Beneath the moment’s tumultuous veneer, Phillips uncovers resonances spanning centuries – patterns echoing [...]
