"Jedburgh's week-long civic festival centres on the Callant who leads the mounted cavalcade on the Redeswire Ride commemorating a historic border skirmish, culminating in Festival Day with the Jedburgh Border Games."
Jedburgh Callants Festival
"Kelso's civic week is anchored by the Kelso Laddie leading a mounted cavalcade to Yetholm and back, reviving the ancient custom of riding the burgh marches in the heart of the Tweed valley."
Kelso Civic Week and Kelso Laddies
"Innerleithen's St Ronan's Games combine the ancient Cleikum ceremony on the Friday evening, in which evil is symbolically hooked out of the town, with a full Highland games programme on the Saturday."
St Ronan's Border Games, Innerleithen
"Mounted ride-outs led by the Kelso Laddie criss-cross the Borders countryside in a week of civic ceremony."
Kelso Civic Week
"Kelso Racecourse in late July, where the cattle are Scots and the sheep are Border and the judges have opinions, the great show of the eastern Border country, with the Tweed just over the fence."
Border Union Show
"Eyemouth's fishing-community festival crowns the Herring Queen each summer in a tradition rooted in a post-WWI Fisherman's Peace Picnic, celebrating the town's close ties to the sea."
Eyemouth Herring Queen Festival
"Lauder's Common Riding is one of the most intimate of the Borders festivals, with a mounted Cornet leading riders along the ancient marches of this small market town on the edge of the Lammermuir Hills."
Lauder Common Riding
"Coldstream's civic week climaxes with the Coldstreamer leading a mounted rideout to Flodden Field, honouring the Borderers who fell in the 1513 battle in one of the most moving riding ceremonies in Scotland."
Coldstream Civic Week
"The sport's ultimate contest held only every three years in the region widely considered the birthplace of the Border Collie, where handlers from across the world gather at Huntington Farm for five extraordinary days."
World Sheepdog Trials
"Twice a year the entire town of Jedburgh divides into Uppies and Doonies to contest a football match with no fixed rules, no referee and no pitch boundaries through the streets and closes of the town, a tradition said to derive from the use of an English soldier's head after a medieval border battle."
Jedburgh Ba' Game
✦ Weird & Wonderful"Cornet and mounted supporters ride the marches to drum and fife, commemorating a 1514 skirmish."
Hawick Common Riding
"Hundreds of riders follow the standard bearer round the burgh boundaries in the oldest of the Borders common ridings."
Selkirk Common Riding
"One of the Scottish Borders' best-loved civic weeks, the Melrose Festival culminates in a horseback rideout through the shadow of the Eildon Hills and the crowning and installation of the Festival Queen on the Thursday."
Melrose Festival
"A week of riding the marches, crowning of the Beltane Queen and pageantry in this Tweed valley town."
Peebles Beltane Festival
"A dawn cavalcade to the Raid Stone commemorates a 1337 victory over English raiders, with Soor Plums handed between sweethearts and a Mixing of the Roses ceremony recalling the marriage of Margaret Tudor to James IV."
Galashiels Braw Lads Gathering