For Argyll

[ November 26, 2008; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ]

Dunoon & Cowal Marketing Group’s (DCMG) have just announced their Annual Awards Ceremony and AGM and this year it looks like being a really spicey event. Not only are the Red Hot Chilli Pipers playing, but they’re also presenting…

Homecoming 2009, which will run from Burns Night to St Andrew’s Day wll see six events in Cowal funded by Argyll and Bute Council to a total of £34,000. The awards are:

• Cowalfest, £10,000
• Sandbank Community Development Trust, for a May celebration,…

Argyll’s - and Cowal’s - The Walking Theatre Company (TWTC) is one of only four businesses short-listed in the New Tourism Business Category at the Highlands and Islands Tourism Awards, to be held at the Drumossie Hotel, Inverness on Friday…

The annual festival of walking and the arts in Argyll’s Cowal Peninsula - Cowalfest, begins on 3rd October and runs until 12th October. The organisers point out that walking is healthy, cheap, exploratory, can be communal and is largely carbon…

[ September 26, 2008 to September 28, 2008. ]

The weekend from Friday 26th September onwards sees artists’ studios across the Cowal peninsula open to the public. This creates a rare opportunity to see artists working spaces and, of course, it also lets visitors see…

The Cowal peninsula’s annual festival of walking and the arts - Cowalfest - starts next Friday (3rd October) with a programme of seventy walks, experiences and activities for all ages. You can walk, cycle, ride, visit, eat, read and look at…

The Kilfinan Community Trust in Cowal has just been given permission, under the National Forest Land Scheme, to buy Acharossan Forest at Tighnabruaich for the community. They are working with Forestry Commission Scotland and Highlands & Islands Enterprise’s Community Land Unit…

Results for all competing Argyll pipe bands at the 2008 Cowal Gathering are below - plus details of the winning band in each section.

• Novice: Winners were Dumbarton & District. Kintyre School were fifth; Oban High School were ninth and Dunoon…

We’ll have the full results shortly but - first things first - here’s the good news for Argyll. The Black Bottle Islay PIpe Band, relative newcomers, were winners in the 4A Grade and have been made Champion of Champions in…

The 2008 World Champions in Highland Dancing, awarded at Argyll’s Cowal Gathering are:

• Juvenile: Morgan Bamford, New Zealand
• Junior: Alexandra Matthews, Ontario
• Adult: David Wilton, Forfar

Full details are here, compiled by Highland Scrutineer.

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