Committee members from the Skye Gardening Society are pictured with some of the many colourful exhibits and judge, Lyndsey MacLeod from Croft 7. Photograph: Willie Urquhart. Despite the difficult weather conditions of late, Minginish Hall in north west Skye was filled with colour last Saturday, as the Skye Gardening Society held their annual spring flower show. The committee were delighted at the turnout with 63 entries in various categories, including an encouraging number in the children’s section. The Primrose Trophy was won jointly by Jacquie Wathen and Joyce Heggie, who shared the top number of points across all entries. Jacquie also won the prize for the outstanding exhibit with her entry of spring flowers using a lovely selection of daffodils from her garden at Talisker that had survived the recent storm damage. Jacquie Wathen from Talisker is pictured with her outstanding exhibit of spring flowers, that survived the recent storm...

A busy fiddle workshop. Photograph: Willie Urquhart. BY DANIEL CULLEN More than 150 young people from across Skye and Lochalsh took part in the annual Fèis an Earraich at Portree High School from Monday 6th to Friday 10th April. A week’s tuition in traditional Gaelic music, song, sport and culture by some of the country’s finest traditional musicians culminated in a concert on Friday 10th April, with the students sharing the pieces of music they’d been working on together. Eoghainn Macdonald from Treaslane gives it his all during a piping session. Photograph: Willie Urquhart. The Free Press were in attendance for the concert to witness both the talent on display and the commitment to embrace, celebrate, enhance and even evolve (see the sound production class led by Richy Carey) local traditional arts by the tutors and organisers of Fèis an Earraich. Amongst the performances at the concert were fiddlers, drummers,...