Trossachs Highland Festival
Callander World Highland Games

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• Callander World Highland Games.
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Trossachs Highland Festival 1998

Until the 1999 programme becomes available, the 1998 one will be left here to give you an idea of rhe events that usually take place.

Every year this festival, which was inaugurated in 1985, provides a variety of events over a two week period. This year the Festival culminated in the Callander World Highland Games on the 25^th and 26^th July. The festival offered a variety of entertainments catering to a range of tastes. Every morning in Ancaster Square, Callander there were special programmes for young children including magicians, jugglers and musicians followed by musical performances and in the afternoon Highland Dancing and pipers. In the evenings folk nights, classical music, ceilidhs, concerts, film shows and theatrical performances tookplace at a number of venues throughout The Trossachs.

Callander World Highland Games 1998
25^th July - 26^th July

In conjunction with The Trossachs Highland Festival, Callander held their World Highland Games at Claish Farm, Mollands Road, Callander on the 25^th July and 26^th July. Organized by The Callander and District Round Table this annual event features many athletes from around the world who compete in feats of strength including hammer throwing and caber tossing, and lifting, carrying and pulling of large weights. There were many stalls there and other performers such as Highland dancers and pipe bands. There was a special feature this year, a Childrens Highland Games with entries from local primary schools and also a hill race open to all. Events included are:

• Traditional Highland Games
• World Muscle Power Championship
• Pipe Bands
• Hill Race
• Highland Dancing
• Motorbike Display Team
• Parachute Display Team
• Falconry Display
• Craft Stalls

Other local events

• Piping School, McLaren High, Monday 20^th - Friday 24^th
  12:45 - 14:45 ; £5 per day
• Post Festival Concert, Callander Kirk, Wednesday 29^th, 20:00, £3
• Pipe Band Performances, Ancaster Square
  Wednesdays 2000 - 2030 & Sundays 1500 - 1530 Free
• June 7^th, 14^th, 17^th, 21^th, 24^th, 28^th
• July 1^th, 5^th, 8^th, 15^th, 19^th, 22^th, 29^th
• August 5^th, 9^th, 12^th, 19^th, 23^th, 26^th, 30^th
• September 9^th, 13^th, 20^th, 27^th

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