For Argyll

[ July 26, 2009; ]

The 2009 Luss Highland Games will be on 26th July.

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The Drum Major  who won the Mace Over the Bar competition at Argyll’s Cowal Gathering - and the gallon of whisky that went with it was… Brian Wilson, of Lomond and Clyde Pipe Band. The Most Entertaining Band was George…

This week Argyll’s two major highland games took centre stage - the Argyllshire Gathering (shorthand: the Oban Games) on Thursday 28th August for one day. The featured pipe bands in this event were the Scots Guards Association and Tiree. The…

The international spectrum of winners in the competitions really underlines the reach and significance of Argyll’s Cowal Games. These are all Scottish Championship results for Highland Dancing and have been computed by Highland Scrutineer.

• 8 Years: Morgan McDougall, Ontario
• 9 Years: Soophie…

… and is expecting a record of 20,000 spectators this year. Big attractions are the World Championships in Highland Dancing and the Cowal Pipe Band Championships, with Scottish bands faced with teams from America, Canada and New Zealand in a…

Mark MacDonald form Dumfries was tied with Neil Elliot from Helensburgh as they went into the final event at the Bute Highland Games in Rothesay. The Helensburgh man was looking all but invincible with a ‘two minutes past twelve’ caber…

Argyll’s Cowal Gathering is the largest Highland Games in the world and this year’s games promises the greatest variety of entertainment yet. The heart of any games - the super-strong athletes tossing the caber and, here, putting the Cowal Stone, will…

As we noted in our news item on the night of the World Pipe Band Championships, focusing on the main winners in the competition (icluding those from Argyll) - the Inveraray and District Pipe Band scored a remarkable achievement. They were made…

In its hundred and fourteenth year, the 2008 Cowal Gathering, at Dunoon from 28th to 30th August, will see around 3,500 competitors from Canada, America and New Zealand. There will be huge audiences for, among many traditional sporting events, the…

[ August 27, 2008 to August 28, 2008. ]

The 2008 Argyllshire Gathering and Oban Games is at Mossfield Park in Oban. For details phone 01631 564354.