Stranraer Oyster Festival
A celebration of Scotland's last remaining wild and native oyster bed in Loch Ryan, with celebrity chef demos, the Scottish Oyster Shucking Championships, live music and a vast oyster bar on Stranraer Harbour.
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"A cherished one-day agricultural show in the spa town of Moffat in the Southern Uplands, celebrating hill farming traditions and Dumfries and Galloway livestock with a strong local community spirit."
Moffat Show
"Scotland's National Book Town hosts its 25th festival across ten days and 200 events in this Galloway village of fifteen bookshops, where authors, musicians and artists fill the town hall, bookshops and gardens with literature, music and theatre."
Wigtown Book Festival
"The Dumfriesshire ploughing match rotates between farms in the Nith valley and the surrounding upland country each autumn, where the deep red sandstone soils and the wide skies of southwest Scotland give the competition its own distinct and unhurried character."
Dumfriesshire Ploughing Match
"A not for profit autumn gathering in a Galloway market town that champions young traditional musicians with concerts, sessions and dancing at a converted bank turned arts centre."
Autumn Trad Festival
"Dumfries's ancient riding of the marches custom sees hundreds of horses gather at dawn to ride the burgh boundaries before the crowning of the Queen of the South and an afternoon parade of floats through the town."
Dumfries Guid Nychburris Day
"Annan's traditional boundary-riding custom sees a mounted procession ride the ancient marches of this Solway coast burgh, upholding one of Dumfriesshire's oldest civic ceremonies."
Annan Riding of the Marches
"Four days of Aberdeenshire artisan food producers, local folk musicians and community spirit in a Royal Deeside village, where the September apple harvest season and the warmth of a rural Scottish gathering make for an unusually nourishing weekend."
Tarland Food and Music Festival
"The Grampian Transport Museum at Alford hosts this outdoor celebration of north-east Scotland's food and drink producers each June, a showcase of Aberdeenshire's extraordinary larder of beef, fish, game and artisan produce set in the Howe of Alford with the Grampian hills rising on every side."
Best of Grampian
"Dunoon's inaugural food festival in Castle Gardens celebrates Argyll produce with Scotland's National Chef Gary Maclean headlining, artisan cheeses, fresh seafood, rhubarb soft drinks and frozen margaritas from producers across the Firth of Clyde."
Taste Dunoon Food and Drink Festival
"Coracle racing on the Teifi and a quayside food market in this old Ceredigion port town."
Cardigan River and Food Festival
"Food stalls and live music in the grounds of the longest country house facade in Europe, in the estate village of Wentworth."
Great British Food Festival, Wentworth Woodhouse
"Since 1983 the Island's biggest summer show at Fighting Cocks Crossroads near Newchurch has celebrated garlic grown on the Isle of Wight, with star chefs, live music and a Garlic Queen."
Isle of Wight Garlic Festival