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Scotland, United Kingdom. Years active. 1894 – present. Website. cowalgathering.com. The Cowal Highland Gathering (also known as the Cowal Games) is an annual Highland games held in the Scottish town of Dunoon on the Argyll and Bute, over the final weekend in August. It is held at Dunoon Stadium.
The Cowal Highland Gathering, better known as the Cowal Games, is held in Dunoon, Scotland, every August. It is the largest Highland games in Scotland, [a] attracting around 3,500 competitors and somewhere in the region of 23,000 spectators [1] [2] from around the globe.
Overview. The World Pipe Band Championships have been staged since 1947, although the Grade 1 Pipe Band Competition winners at the annual Cowal Highland Gathering were recognised as World Champions as far back as 1906. [citation needed] The current venue is Glasgow Green. There are no qualifications to enter, and bands do not have to enter or ...
Cowal (Scottish Gaelic: Comhghall) [1] is a rugged peninsula in Argyll and Bute, on the west coast of Scotland. It is connected to the mainland to the north, and is bounded by Loch Fyne to the west, by Loch Long and the Firth of Clyde to the east, and by the Kyles of Bute to the south. Argyll is the historic county that the Cowal peninsula was ...
Dunoon Stadium. Dunoon Stadium is a single-tier grandstand and natural environ in Dunoon in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. A cinder track surrounds a central grassed area, overlooked from the south by the grandstand. Today, the stadium is the focal point of the Cowal Highland Gathering. [1]
World Drum Corps Champions: 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 2001, 2012. UK Championship replaced Cowal Championship in 2014. Website. www.theboghall.com. The Peoples Ford Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band is a pipe band from West Lothian, Scotland which formed in 1972. The band has competed in Grade 1 since being promoted to that level in 1980.
In the first years of its existence the band was led by pipe major Ludo Thijssen and leading drummer Peter Vandeperre. In 1980, only two years after the foundation, the first successes came with a 4th place at one of the world's biggest pipe band championships, the Cowal Highland Gathering. As a result, the band was promoted to grade 3.
A young Highland dancer demonstrates her Scottish sword dance at the 2005 Bellingham (Washington) Highland Games. Modern Highland dancing emerged in the 19th and 20th centuries. It was "created from the Gaelic folk dance repertoire, but formalised with the conventions of ballet". [2]