MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL: Traditional Games and Crafts; a Highland Encampment; a Cultural Legacy; Pipe Band; Picnic and much more

10:30am, Midsummer Festival at the site of Old Grantown Gates Open and a Welcome.

11am, Mountain Bike Trails: start ref Mountain Bike Trails

11:30am, Mountain Bike Family run start

1:00pm, Opening ceremony with City of Inverness Youth Pipe Band and Clan Grant

A Highland Encampment

Displays and Exhibitions including Old Highland Crafts

Heritage Games including shinty and heavy events

A Cultural Legacy with music and dance

Summer Solstice bring your own Picnic in the park also with Hog roast, pizza, hot and cold drinks

Perspectives of Castle Grant: short tours to the Castle Grounds

Take part on a host of fun activities based around the “Parish Pavilion”

No end of activities for everyone!!

Pony and Carriage Rides; Shinty Team Demonstrations and Have-a-go Sessions; Heavyweight Event Demonstrations and Trials; Basket Weaving with Naturally Useful; Horse Shoeing Demonstrations; Spinning and Weaving with Knockando Woolmill, Lindsey Patton and Sally Williams; Sheep Shearing; Leather Working; Kilt Shop Demonstration, “How a Kilt was Worn”; Vintage Tractors; Mountain Bike Events; Picnic Areas; Jacobite Encampment; Historic Ceremonies; Information Stands; Laser Clays; Fun Fair and Stalls including a Bottle Stall; Catering from Billy Can and Woodburn Pizzas; Ice Cream; Cooking Demonstrations and Tasings; Chainsaw Carving; Music from Inverness City Youth Pipe band, PACE, Feis Spe and Bicycle Thieves; Highland Dancing and of course your chance to meet “Freuchie” himself!

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Date: 21/06/2015
Time: 10:30 am - 5:00 pm
Categories:
Location:
Old Grantown
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