Tag: Highland Games

Worldwide, women participate in Highland Games

Tossing tree trunks for miles, launching bundles of straw over your head, and fighting to fling the equivalent of your body weight as far...

Cute Calum, 4, wows huge US crowd with his amazing bagpipe peformance

AMAZING footage show a four-year-old bagpipe fanatic wowing a huge crowd at a Highland Games in the US. Calum Vinson, who has played toy bagpipes...

Pipers to play with other instrumentalists for first time

PIPERS and drummers will play with other instrumentalists at one of Scotland’s biggest pipe band competitions - for the first time in the country’s...

Royal games society votes to accept women members for first time in 200 years

AN all-male games society backed by the royal family has voted to accept women members for the first time. The 200-year-old Braemar Royal Highland Society,...

Pipe banned: drum majors ordered not to throw mace

PIPE bands have been forbidden to throw their ceremonial staffs in the air over health and safety fears. Traditionally drum majors, the band leaders, march...

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