Fergus Scottish Festival and Highland Games brings Scottish flair to town

August 14, 2019 @ 5:02 pmNews

Highland games - The Pipes, Plaid and Pagentry parade took over downtown Fergus on Aug. 8. The event kicked off the Fergus Scottish Festival and Highland Games weekend.
Photo by Jaime Myslik
Highland games - The Pipes, Plaid and Pagentry parade took over downtown Fergus on Aug. 8. The event kicked off the Fergus Scottish Festival and Highland Games weekend.
Photo by Jaime Myslik
Highland games - The Pipes, Plaid and Pagentry parade took over downtown Fergus on Aug. 8. The event kicked off the Fergus Scottish Festival and Highland Games weekend.
Photo by Jaime Myslik
Highland games - The Pipes, Plaid and Pagentry parade took over downtown Fergus on Aug. 8. The event kicked off the Fergus Scottish Festival and Highland Games weekend.
Photo by Helen Michel
Highland games - The Pipes, Plaid and Pagentry parade took over downtown Fergus on Aug. 8. The event kicked off the Fergus Scottish Festival and Highland Games weekend.
Photo by Helen Michel
Highland games - The Pipes, Plaid and Pagentry parade took over downtown Fergus on Aug. 8. The event kicked off the Fergus Scottish Festival and Highland Games weekend.
Photo by Helen Michel
Highland music - Albannach performed after the Pipes, Plaid and Pagentry Parade in Fergus on Aug. 8. The band took over the Wightman parking lot.
Photo by Jaime Myslik
The Friday night Tattoo provided a taste of the Fergus Scottish Festival on Aug. 9.
Photo by Helen Michel
The Friday night Tattoo provided a taste of the Fergus Scottish Festival on Aug. 9, including the popular and entertaining Tom Leadbeater.
Photo by Helen Michel
The Friday night Tattoo provided a taste of the Fergus Scottish Festival on Aug. 9, including the lighting of the hearth with members of the attending clans.
Photo by Helen Michel
The Friday night Tattoo provided a taste of the Fergus Scottish Festival on Aug. 9, including an evening concert performance by Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac.
Photo by Helen Michel
The Friday night Tattoo provided a taste of the Fergus Scottish Festival on Aug. 9, including a fireworks display by David Whysall.
Photo by Helen Michel
Caber toss - A competitor prepares to toss the caber during the heavy games at the Fergus Scottish Festival and Highland Games on Aug. 10.
Photo by Patrick Raftis
Test of strength - Hammer throw competitor John Jans, of Elora, right, let members of the audience have a go at lifting his hammer at the Fergus Scottish Festival and Highalnd Games on Aug. 10. Audience member Sophia Jimenez, of Guelph, left, had trouble getting it off the ground.
Photo by Patrick Raftis
Clan garb - Participants in the clan gathering in traditional costume at the Fergus Scottish Festival and Highland Games on Aug. 10.
Photo by Patrick Raftis
Clans gather - The gathering of the clans at the Fergus Scottish Festival and Highland Games included members of the Heritage Village re-enactment. Seamus Gunn (in red vest) is a popular story teller.
Photo by Patrick Raftis
Massed fling - The Massed Highland Fling was a crowd pleaser at the Fergus Scottish Festival and Highland Games on Aug. 10.
Photo by Patrick Raftis
Scottish festival - The Fergus Pipe Band took Lillian Burden’s request seriously to hear bagpipes up close. While at the Fergus Scottish Festival and Highland Games Burden, centre, was unaware of what was happening as she was taken on a parade through the grounds. She was presented with a certificate by Pipe Major Murray Young, left, placing her as an honouary member of the Fergus Pipe Band signed by all the members of the band. Burden, came from North York for the day and was carried around the complex by Ernie Jonker one of the festival ambassadors. RIGHT: Burden and Jonker traveled around the festival with the pipe band behind.
Photos by Bill Longshaw
Scottish festival - The Fergus Pipe Band took Lillian Burden’s request seriously to hear bagpipes up close. Burden and Ernie Jonker, one of the festival ambassadors, traveled around the festival with the pipe band behind.
Photo by Bill Longshaw
Pipe band bus - For a number of years this bus with a platform on top has come to the Fergus Scottish Festival and Highland Games from the Barrie area. They come to have some fun and to create a platform for pipers and drummers to play. After a day of piping a group always wants to play and this year was no exception. On the top of the bus are pipers and drummers from the Guelph Pipe Band, Fergus Pipe Band and a band that came all the way from California, The MacIntosh Pipe Band, that was hosted by the Fergus Group.
Photo by Bill Longshaw
Plenty of Pipes - The Massed Bands event featured more than a dozen pipe bands taking to the field at the Fergus Scottish Festival and Highland Games on Aug. 10, 2019.
Photo by Patrick Raftis

Pipes, Plaid and Pageantry parade – The Pipes, Plaid and Pageantry parade took over downtown Fergus on Aug. 8. The event kicked off the Fergus Scottish Festival and Highland Games weekend.         

The Friday night Tattoo provided a taste of the Fergus Scottish Festival on Aug. 9, including  pipe bands, the popular and entertaining Tom Leadbeater and the Schiehallion Dancers, an evening concert performance by Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac, a fireworks display by David Whysall and the lighting of the hearth with members of the attending clans.   

Saturday and Sunday featured many activities including international competitors taking part in the Highland Games, the Mass Pipe Bands, Highland dancing competitions, heritage tents, demonstrations and more.

 

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