Killin Music Fest
A small Highland village fills with musicians every June. The mountains are the backdrop and the sessions go late.
A small but genuinely rewarding Highland conservation village whose Category A bridge over the thundering Falls of Dochart, layer upon layer of clan history, and honest ring of cafes and outdoor shops make it well worth a half-day stop, especially for walkers using it as a base for Ben Lawers or the Rob Roy Way.
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"Three private gardens open in a Stirlingshire village at the foot of the Campsie Fells, from a tiny walled garden with a topiary rabbit to a Victorian arbour with views of the hills."
Gardens of Milton of Campsie
"Keir Mains near Dunblane hosts this one-day agricultural show at the heart of Central Scotland, where Highland and Lowland farming traditions meet in the shadow of the Ochil Hills and livestock from the Forth valley and the Trossachs compete for cups that have been given out here for over a century."
Doune and Dunblane Show
"Athletes race up Sron a'Chlachain in a punishing hill race while pipers march over the Falls of Dochart bridge at the western end of Loch Tay."
Killin Highland Games
"Games Park in this Victorian spa village on the foot of the Ochil Hills has hosted Highland games since 1861, one of the oldest continuously running games in the world, held in a village that Victorian visitors came to for its mineral springs and where the air still seems clearer than the surrounding Forth valley."
Bridge of Allan Highland Games
"This village on the edge of the Forth carse holds its games in the shadow of a ruined castle, an intimate gathering where the heavy athletes compete while the Ochil Hills and the Wallace Monument are both visible on the horizon and the Forth bends around the grounds."
Airth 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
Villagly Award · Hardest to Reach"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
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