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The annual Glasgow Celtic Connections is a Celtic music festival featuring unsurpassed Scottish talent alongside artists from around the world. The 2007 Celtic Connections, under the direction of Artistic Consultant Donald Shaw, was hugely successful, drawing crowds from all corners of Scotland as well as around the globe.
Saint Andrew is the Patron Saint of Scotland. Scots all around the world celebrate St. Andrew’s Day annually on the 30th November. What better place could there be to celebrate St. Andrews Day 2007, than in the beautiful medieval town of St. Andrews in Scotland?
The annual Scots Fiddle Festival, or Fiddle 2007, will be held between the 16th and the 18th of November 2007. It is one of the events in Scotland that is looked forward to with great anticipation and excitement. In the Assembly Room in the city of Edinburgh, the biggest traditional music festival in Scotland will come to life in the form of breathtaking performances, dancing and the jubilant atmosphere that the Scots Fiddle Festival creates.
The New Hampshire Highland Games at Loon Mountain is hosted by a non-profit organization known as the New Hampshire Gathering of Scottish Clans. It is an organization that is dedicated to the preservation of the Gaelic culture and the traditions that are unique to the Scottish. Interest in the New Hampshire Highland Games at Loon Mountain has grown with every passing year, not only in regard to the participants, but the games have seen an increase in spectators as well.
Weekend tinkering with the family car is a common hobby for many, but in Jackie Stewart’s family repairing cars was a business. As part of his family Jaguar dealership, Stewart worked as an apprentice mechanic. Indeed, the love of speeds was in Stewart’s blood – his father had been a motorcycle racer and his brother was a successful race car driver before a serious accident at Le Mans plucked him from the dangerous sport permanently. Discouraged by his parents to bypass auto racing, Stewart became an expert target shooter, missing the 1960 Summer Olympic team by a hairs-breath.
If you are planning a trip to the western Highlands soon, you might want to think about visiting during the month of October. It is during this month every year in the Cowal Peninsula that the annual Cowalfest takes place. The festival has been labeled as ‘Scotland’s largest walking festival’ and is definitely somthing to enjoy as a participant.
Ghost stories and tales of spiritual wanderings among the living are big business in Edinburgh. Thousands of tickets are sold to the curious each year for walks through the city telling tales of how victims of the Black Death were walled up below ground to prevent the spread of disease. Halloween-themed events for children welcome today’s little ghosts and goblins to Edinburgh castle’s grounds. Indeed, Edinburgh Castle is considered one of the most haunted places in Scotland. No surprise really given the centuries of wars and battles the military fortress defended.
Heather-colored skies collapse into twilight. Edinburgh Castle glows in banks of floodlights. A solitary voice from behind the castle’s walls sets a somber tone. The great oak gates of the castle suddenly sweep open, and from its bowels the swell of bagpipes and drums electrify the night. Hundreds of thousands of onlookers turn their attention the drawbridge to see bands by the hundreds and effigies of Scotland’s freedom fighters, William Wallace and Robert the Bruce, parade through the night.
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