Highlands & Islands Music & Dance Festival, Oban
Annual music and dance festival, offering special events and competitions in fiddle, accordion, chanter, piping, piano, woodwind, brass, recorder, singing, Scottish country dancing, highland dancing and choreography.
Special events:
The Highlands and Islands Fiddle and Accordion Masters - featuring prize-winning fiddle and accordion players from the main competition championships throughout Scotland.
The Scottish Area Highland Dancing Finals - the culmination of the whole year’s competition circuit, featuring seventeen teams, and the only highland dancing team event to be held in the world!
The Scottish Choreography Challenge - featuring two days of entertainment of the highest standard. Teams of dancers compete for prestigious prizes using innovative dance routines incorporating traditional highland dancing steps, sound and lighting effects, dazzling costume and scenery.
Festival Parade - a fine spectacle, with a number of pipe bands marching through Oban for the enjoyment of residents and visitors.
The Concert of Champions - presents winners from the competitions in a musical variety show of very high quality, followed by the Festival Fling, when competitors, family and friends dance into the wee small hours to a traditional Scottish dance band.