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Loch Norman Highland Games
Modern Scottish Festivals have their roots in the middle ages. We have reports of athletic competition (“Games”) at many times and places when people gathered together; fairs, military musters (“wapenschaws”), even funerals! Games which now feature track and field events, music, and dance have been held in the village of Ceres (in Fife) since shortly after the battle of Bannockburn in 1314. Scottish Games as we know them today began to develop in 1781 when the Highland Society of Falkirk…
Find out more »Smoky Mountain Scottish Festival and Games
East Tennessee's premier celebration of Scottish culture and history. Originally founded in 1981 as the Gatlinburg Scottish Festival and Games, we are one of the oldest Scottish Festivals in the country. With success comes change, and the continued growth of our event ultimately made a new venue necessary. In 2010, we established a new home in the City of Maryville on the picturesque grounds of historic Maryville College, home of "The Scots". But you don't have to be Scottish in…
Find out more »Gallabrae Highland Games
GALLABRAE is a mash-up of two Gallic terms, meaning “ bold and daring” plus “beautiful highlands’. That’s us! The Saturday Scottish Games kept spinning off so many other events that we realized it was time for a re-branding to more accurately encompass what we have become; in addition, our regional and national profile (not to mention our growing reputation inScotland) is expanding greatly, and we have to race to keep up with it!
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