Keith TMSA Festival

"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

"A burning barrel of tar is carried around this Moray fishing village to mark the old new year, a Pictish-era survival."

Burning of the Clavie

"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

"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

"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

"A man encased head to toe in sticky burrs walks the town for nine hours, a fertility custom of unknown but ancient origin."

Burryman's Parade

"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