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A five-day festival in September covering all sorts
of performance, music and arts.
Highlights for me of this particular festival were the
variety and talent on show from the likes of the
traditional musicians like Charlie McKerron, Tim
Edey and Mark Clement, Gaelic singing and step
dance, an array of local up and coming talent on
the Musicworx stage, jazz on the Sunday afternoon
and the spectacular and fantastical carnival parade
on the Saturday night with lanterns,stilt walkers,
fire breathers, fire spinners, giant weird and
wonderful brightly coloured paper creatures,
dragons and fish, all accompanied by brass
and deep drum beats of the Samba musicians
involved.
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Contrary to what you might think, this was a day of
non-stop entertainment, from the belly dancers and
clowns that wound their way through the Farmers
Market and craft tents, the Great Porridge Fun run
to the parade through town heralded by The Badenoch
& Strathspey Pipe Band while toasting with drams of
Caledonian Cream, the Feis Spe Ceilidh Band to the
‘Ready, Steady, Cook!’ type panic of the 3 half hour
heats before the finals in traditional and speciality
porridge ‘cook offs’.
This really is a unique and very enjoyable day out
for anyone interested in good wholesome creative
and tasty entertainment in Scotland.
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In order from top and left to right
1) Lochgilphead Lantern Festival
2) Lochgilphead Lantern Festival
3) The Opening of Kilchrenan Village Hall
4) Celtic Connections - David Munnelly Dancers
5) The Janice Forsyth Radio Show
6) Celtic Connections - Laura McGee
7) Cafe Cossachok - The Deseo Flamenco Group
8) StAnza - Poetry, Pie and a Pint - Dean Parkin
9) The Janice Forsyth Radio Show - Camera Obscura
10) Strontian Writing Festival
11) Celtic Connections - David Munnelly Band
12) Marshall Vinnicombe - Cornish Oyster Fisherman
13) Morgan Academy burning down - Dundee
14) Morgan Academy the day after - Dundee
15) StAnza - The Burning of Scotland - Alasdair Reid
16) John Hegley Rocks St Andrews.
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