Burning of the Clavie

"Three days of Scottish traditional music, song, dance and verse with bothy ballads, ceilidhs and competitions fill this north-east town for its 51st year."

Keith TMSA Festival

"Grant Park in the ancient market town of Forres hosts its Highland games at the height of summer, a traditional gathering in a town that predates the Viking invasions and where the games feel genuinely embedded in the fabric of the place rather than mounted for visitors."

Forres Highland Games

"Caber-tossing and Highland dancing come to the Alice Littler Memorial Park in the heart of Speyside whisky country."

Aberlour Strathspey Highland Games

"The elegant planned town of Grantown-on-Spey in the upper Spey valley holds its annual agricultural show in August when the moors above are a week from flowering, a show that gathers the farms of Strathspey and Badenoch together for a day of livestock judging and country sports in the heart of the Cairngorms."

Grantown Show

"The self-proclaimed whisky capital of the world hosts its Highland games at Mortlach School grounds each July, where seven working distilleries are within walking distance and the smell of peat smoke is as much a part of the games as any caber."

Dufftown Highland Games

"One of the highest village games in Scotland, with heavy events and dancing in the Cairngorms."

Tomintoul Highland Games

"One of Scotland's oldest music festivals brings Gaelic nights, ceilidhs, pipe bands and distillery tours to a remote Kintyre town at the road's very end."

Mull of Kintyre Music Festival

"One of Scotland's most distinctive gatherings, the Lonach sees kilted clansmen march twelve miles carrying pikes before the Highland Games begin at Bellabeg in the upper Don valley."

Lonach Highland and Friendly Society Gathering

"Four days of traditional music on an Hebridean island reachable only by ferry, workshops, open sessions, ceilidhs in the island hall, and the Atlantic on all four sides."

Ceol Cholasa: Colonsay Folk Festival

"Three days in a Black Isle village near Inverness where the sessions run late and the Moray Firth catches the September light outside, a small Highland folk festival doing exactly what it promised."

Ardersier Folk Festival

"On a remote Hebridean island of more deer than people, a village hall and marquee fill with trad sessions, ceilidhs, step dancing and a samba procession."

Jura Music Festival

"Competitors from across the world converge on the Cairngorm village of Carrbridge to contest the Golden Spurtle trophy each October, cooking traditional porridge and open specialty oat dishes to a panel of judges in the village hall while the birch woods outside are turning the first rust of autumn."

World Porridge Making Championship