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May 2006 |
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11th to 21st May 2006 Big Big Country, Glasgow. This festival has as established a reputation for staging talented people who have gone on to become big favourites with Americana style music. Country, folk, bluegrass, jazz and blues music has always been popular in Glasgow, and Big Big Country brings live Americana performance to a wider audience. Details of venues and ticket prices can be found at www.soundsfine.co.uk |
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12th May to 14th May 2006, WalkFest '06, Galloway Hills. This event provides visitors with a wide variety of routes, with a walk to suit everyone. Make a point of writing these dates in your diary and come and join an action packed walking weekend in the Galloway Hills and surrounding area. Full details can be found on www.newtonstewartwalkfest.co.uk | ||
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25th to 28th May 2006, Orkney Folk Festival. A worldwide known annual celebration of traditional and contemporary folk music, which is now in its 24th year. Very talented local musicians along with more famous artists share the billing in one of the most vibrant festivals of its type. Venues are spread across the island allowing visitors to explore. Further inmformatiomn can be obtained from www.orkneyfolkfestival.com | ||
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Mid May to the end of July 2006, CowParade Edinburgh. The CowParade comes to Edinburgh, bringing up to 100 colourful cow sculptures and statues displayed in the streets, parks and historic locations of City. Artists are encouraged to create works of art to inspire and raise a smile from locals and visitors. The finale of the CowParade Edinburgh involves many of the cows sold at a gala auction with 75% of proceeds going to charity. Full details can be found at www.cowparadeuk.com | ||
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27th & 28th May 2006, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, Fort William. The Nevis Range Ski Area is the spectacular setting for the thrilling UCI Mountain Bike World Cup event, featuring Downhill, 4-Cross and Cross-country events. Scotland was recently voted the best mountain-bike destination in the world. Come and watch the best riders in the world compete. Further information can be found at www.fortwilliamworldcup.co.uk | ||
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26th May to 3rd June 2006, Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival. The 2006 programme is as rich and varied as one could expect with something to suit all tastes. All details of venues etc can be found on www.dgartsfestival.org.uk | ||
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2nd - 4th June 2006 Gardening Scotland The Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh. The show celebrates its 7th anniversary in 2006. More than 30,000 visitors are expected to make a visit, some of the nation's best horticultural, craft and food companies provide a show that appeals to all ages. Come along and be inspired, buy and get the very best horticultural advice from the experts. With a Craft Marquee, Food Pantry and Beechgrove Garden Q&A sessions. Details of opening times can be found on www.gardeningscotland.com | ||
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9th to 10th June 2006. RSAC Scottish Rally. Dumfries & Galloway. A two-day rally through the challenging forest stages around Dumfries & Galloway, this is a round of the British and Scottish Championships. This international motorsport event is running for the 61st time in 2006, and this is its tenth year successive year in Dumfries & Galloway. All information regarding this event cn be obtained from www.rsacmotorsport.co.uk | ||
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9th June 2006 onwards, Common Riding Festivals. Hawick 9th & 10th June, Selkirk 16th June, Langholm July tbc, Lauder 5th Aug 2006 Scottish Borders. These celebrations represent the ancient practice of marking a town's boundaries and continue today as distinctive and colourful expressions of civic pride and tradition. Each Borders town celebrates its history with magnificent rideouts involving hundreds of horses, ridden with a passion worthy of the reivers old. Details can be found at www.borderevents.com | ||
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22nd to 25th June 2006 Royal Highland Show, Ingilston, Edinburgh. Scotland's premier farming and food event promises this year to be even bigger and better than before. The event covers four days with over 4,000 livestock on show and 1,000 stands selling everything from speciality foods to 4x4s. There's a variety of entertainment and demonstrations in skills such as cookery and crafts, falconry and fashion. Visit www.royalhighlandshow.org for full details. | ||
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30th June to 2nd July 2006, Game Conservancy Scottish Fair, Scone Palace, Perthshire. With competitions, displays and demonstrations, the fair is one of the main countryside events of the year in Scotland. Traditional country contests of shooting, fishing and gundogs feature on a varied programme alongside quad biking, military re-enactment displays, food and drink fair, shopping and children's activities. The ever-popular Red Arrows are a highlight of this year's fair, full programme can be found at www.scone-palace.co.uk. | ||
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Falkland Palace, 3D2D Craft Fair (dates to be arranged). You will find a stall by Dida Design at this fair, definately worth a visit. A full list of gifts available from Dida can be found at www.artsandcraftsbydida.com | ||
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12th to 16th July 2006 Barclays Scottish Open, Loch Lomond. An event which forms part of the European PGA golf tour, Barclays Bank Scottish Open draws an outstanding selection of players from around the world. The competition takes place on the beautiful and exclusive Loch Lomond course, recently ranked 21 in the world's top 100 courses. Full programme details can be found at www.barclaysscottishopen.co.uk | ||
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14th to 16th July 2006, National Rowing Championships of Great Britain, Strathclyde Park, North Lanarkshire. Strathclyde Park hosts the National Rowing Championships of Great Britain, this event is the leading regatta in the British Rowing Calendar. To find out more about the events taking place please visitwww.natchamps.org.uk | ||
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15th & 16th July 2006, The Rat Race Urban Adventure, Edinburgh. Hundreds of competitors from all over the UK and abroad will use the facilities of streets, waterways and hills in and around Edinburgh for this year's Rat Race. The two-day adventure race will challenge the most decerning of athletes in teamwork and endurance over a varied course. Full details of events can be found at www.ratraceadventure.com | ||
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22nd & 23rd July 2006, Motorvation!, Alford, Aberdeenshire. Motorvation! is a dynamic vintage/classic car show, staged annually at the Grampian Transport Museum. Featuring cars ranging from steamcars to supercars. The programme features trials and competitions for the historic vehicles on the museum's purpose-built road circuit. More details can be found at www.gtm.org.uk | ||
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22nd to 23rd July 2006, The City of Inverness Highland Games, 2006 World Masters Championships, Inverness. The largest and most entertaining Highland Games held in the Scottish Highlands will be hosting the World Championship for Heavies aged 40 years and over. Never have we seen so many heavies gathered in one place and at one time in Scotland. With a full programme of pipe band competitions, solo piping, Highland dancing and traditional music, along with Scotland's biggest inter-clan gathering, you will discover why Inverness hosts the best games of the year! Visit www.invernesshighlandgames.com | ||
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23rd July 2006, Red Bull Flugtag, Dalmeny House, near Edinburgh. Red Bull Flugtag, the UK's most creative, exhilarating, and downright loony, flying event is back by popular demand. All eyes will be on the ridiculously high, 6-metre-high platform, as 30 teams of die-hard, pilot-inventors, launch their manpowered flying machines over the chilly waters of the Firth of Forth estuary! Full details of the day's programme can be found at www.redbullflugtag.co.uk | ||
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29th July (provisional) 2006, Museum of Flight Airshow, East Fortune, East Lothian. A fabulous day out at the Museum of Flight includes spectacular aerial displays, a fantastic programme of ground entertainment and activities and a chance to catch a glimpse of the Museum of Flight's latest acquisition - Concorde. Details of the day's event can be found at www.nms.ac.uk
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