The first Highland Games of the Scottish season season kicked off last weekend at the Gourock Highland Games! This year’s event featured traditional heavy events like tossing the caber and hammer throwing and for the first time, also included female competitors. There was also Highland dancing, pipe bands, arts and crafts stalls featuring local artisans, and a great selection of food and drink. The Gourock Highland Games are the first of the season and are organised in partnership with the Royal

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Competitors in the Irish Jig during the 2022 Lonach Highland Gathering & Games at Bellabeg in Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This is one of Scotland’s most iconic traditional summer events and is held on the forth Saturday in August each year. The Irish Jig is one of the Scottish National Dances for competitions, an energetic dance featuring lots of fist shaking and skirt flouncing among female competitors. It is a parody of Irish dancing and one of the two Scottish National dances that has

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A very special occasion to celebrate the 150th Glenisla Highland Games, held at Forter in Glenisla, Angus, Scotland. Harking back to the event's founding in 1856, patrons, comittee members, competitors, friends and visitors were led through the glen from Meikle Forter Farm to the Games by Dundee City Pipe Band. The games are organised by Glenisla Highland and Friendly Society, under the patronage of the Earl and Countess of Airlie, a role held by their predecessors throughout the event's history