October/November 2018
SCOTS NEWS magazine
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF REMEMBRANCE as bagpipes fill the air around the world
THE OUTLANDER EFFECT 600 fans gather at Glen Innes
GOING NUTS over Scottish-made figurines
Volume 8 Number 3
Sleep in peace now The Battle’s O’er
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FROM THE EDITOR
ON November 11, 2018 we will mark the day 100 years ago when the guns fell silent at the end of WWI. Scottish and Australian soldiers played an integral role in vanquishing the enemy. The tale of Daniel Logan Laidlaw - now known as the Piper of Loos - has become legendary for his heroic efforts in keeping pressure on the enemy and keeping up the spirits of his colleagues. On September 25, 1915 during the Battle of Loos at Hill 70 in France on the western front, the forty-year-old piper in the 7th Battalion, The King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division, made history. Prior to an assault on enemy trenches, and during the worst of the bombardment, Piper Laidlaw could see that his company was shaken with the effects of gas. With complete disregard for his own safety, he mounted the parapet and, marching up and down, played his company out of the trench. The effect of his splendid example was immediate and the company dashed to the assault. Piper Laidlaw continued playing his pipes, despite suffering from the effects of gas, until the position was won. His actions at Loos won him the Victoria Cross, the highest award in the British honours system for gallantry in the presence of the enemy.
THE Great War, the war to end all wars, WWI began in Europe on August 4, 1914. On August 25 and 26, the Battle of Mons involved many Scottish regiments and delayed the advance of the Germans. The first significant Australian action of the war was the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Forces landing on Rabaul on September 11, 1914 where they took possession of German New Guinea at Toma on September 17. Throughout 1916 and 1917 losses on the western front were heavy, for very little gain. The devastating effects of mustard gas saw men rendered blind and covered in painful blisters. My own grandfather, George Percy Hamilton McMurdo, was in the trenches in France and suffered from mustard gas exposure. I am sure many of our readers have ancestors who were involved in that conflict, and many others. Despite the suffering and massive loss of life, it was not the war to end all wars, but the courageous actions of men and women in all wars must never be forgotten. On November 11, the 100 year commemoration will see pipers around the world play The Battle’s O’er. See page 4 for details. Lest We Forget.
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SCOTS NEWS magazine is an independent publication for Scots in Queensland. The magazine is published bi-monthly and distributed on the first of the month. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER: Carmel McMurdo Audsley.
COPYRIGHT: All stories appearing in the magazine are written by the editor unless otherwise stated and are subject to copyright laws. Stories may not be reproduced in any form without permission from the editor. COMPETITIONS: See page 8 for competition prizes and entry details. CONTACT: We welcome emails and would love to hear your news and views. Advertising enquiries are also welcome. EMAIL: scotsnews@iinet.net.au DEADLINE FOR DECEMBER/JANUARY ISSUE: November 20.
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Tradtional Pub Hosts Scots’ Events St Andrew’s Day Events Sounds of Scotland Concert Highland Ball The Battle’s O’er World Porridge Day Braemar and St Andrew New Movie - Outlaw King The Outlander Effect Give-away - Win DVDs Scots-Australian Poetry Reproduced Directory of Goods and Services Calendar of Events
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Congratulations to the winners of CDs in our AUGUST/SEPTEMBER GIVE-AWAY: Maryanne McFarlane, Jack Costigan and Sue Henley
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EVENTS
A BRAW SCOTS NIGHT
CLAN Campbell will present its annual dinner A Braw Scots Night on Saturday October 6 from 6.30pm at Riverside Receptions, Oxlade Drive, New Farm. All clans are welcome to attend. Tickets are $95 per person which includes a three-course meal and music by Celtic Crossover. This year’s supported charity for the event is Orange Sky, a free mobile laundry service for people experiencing homelessness. Contact Peter Spencer on 0403 370 332.
Traditional English pub transported to Australia hosts Scottish events
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TOOWOOMBA CEILIDH TOOWOOMBA Caledonian Society and Pipe Band Inc will host a St Andrews Night at Drayton Hall on Saturday November 24 from 7pm. Enjoy a night of Scottish entertainment for the whole family, and learn Scottish country dances which are called. If you prefer to sit back, you can watch the Highland dance display and listen to the band play. A licenced bar is available and great raffle prizes are on offer. If you would like to get a group together, or have further enquiries phone Marg on 0429 700 217.
CELEBRATE St Andrew’s Day at the Fox & Hounds Country Inn at Wongawallan, 30 minutes from Surfers Paradise and 40 minutes from Brisbane at the foot of Mt Tamborine. On Friday November 30 from 6.30pm be welcomed and entertained by pipers, drummers, dancers and singers and enjoy a three-course meal starting with haggis, then slow cooked beef, and bread and butter pudding. The Fox & Hounds is the Gold Coast’s only authentic English pub, and the only pub in Australia to be been transported from England. The former Royal Tunbridge Wells pub offers British ales as well as local beers, and traditional British fare such as Yorkshire Pudding and Guinness pie are on the menu. The fireside interiors are complemented by idyllic Tudor style dining spaces which adjoin a grand Scottish dining room that can be used for private parties. The inn also hosts Burns Suppers and other Scottish-themed events throughout the year. Tickets to the St Andrew’s Dinner are $49 per person. Bookings to 5665 7582.
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A FUN-FILLED night of Scottish food, music and dancing is assured at the BBC Old Collegians Pipe Band Highland Ball to be held on Saturday October 20 from 6.30pm at the Mercure Brisbane Hotel in North Quay. The hotel’s Grand Chelsea Ballroom will ring with the pipes and drums of several band members who recently participated in this year’s Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Ticket price of $130 per person includes a three-course meal, and address to the haggis, and selected beer, wine and soft drinks. Wear your Highland regalia or black tie and join in the community dancing. For further information visit theball.oldcollegianspipeband.com.
Sounds of Scotland - the journey
FRESH from performing at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, Brisbane Boys’ College Pipe Band will join with local musicians and dancers to present the Sounds of Scotland variety concert on Friday October 19 on campus at the College Hall in Toowong. The concert begins at 7pm but food, drink, barbecue and Scottish stalls will be open from 5.30pm and again during interval. A great night of entertainment includes Scottish music from pipe bands, dancers and the Address to the Haggis. Tickets are $20 per adult and $15 per child or concession. Enquiries to 0400 953 126 or sstanley@bbc.qld.edu.au.
PIPERS UNITE ACROSS THE GLOBE TO PLAY THE BATTLE’S O’ER AT 11am on November 11, 1918 the guns on the Western Front fell silent after more than four years of continuous warfare. The allied armies had driven the German invaders back, having inflicted heavy defeats upon them over the preceding four months. The Germans called for an armistice and accepted allied terms that amounted to unconditional surrender. The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month is celebrated each year in memory of those who have fallen - over 9 million people dead. This year on Sunday November 11 at 5pm (Australian Summer Time) pipers, drummers and bands will mark the centenary at multiple locations across Australia and around the world performing the traditional air played by pipers after a battle - The Battle’s O’er. The haunting tune will be played out-
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side churches and cathedrals, in market squares and muddy fields, on hilltops and high streets, in valleys and village greens throughout the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and the Isle of Man and at scores of locations including Australia, Canada, the USA, Germany, South Africa, France, Spain, Israel and Somalia. While the service will begin at dawn in the UK, the Australian afternoon remembrance, co-ordinated by Pipe Bands Australia, will be performed at the same time as pipers everywhere who will be playing the same tune in their local communities. There is a long history of bagpipes and the British Army. While not officially recognised until 1854, many of the Army’s battles since the mid-1700s had been fought with pipers playing. The
original purpose of the pipes in battle was to signal tactical movements to the troops during the battle. By the time of WWI it was not only the Scots and British regiments that had pipe bands, with Commonwealth countries Australia, Canada and even South Africa having regiments with their own pipers. The skirl of the pipes boosted morale among the troops and intimidated the enemy. However, the pipers were unarmed and by drawing attention to themselves were sitting ducks as they went over the top to pipe their men into battle. The pipers of Scotland and overseas regiments should be proud of the part they played in the Great War. In the heat of battle, and by the lonely grave, they have shown tremendous gallantry and bravery, with many falling in the fight for freedom.
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EVENTS/NEWS THE 25th annual Golded Spurtle World Porridge Making Championships will be held in the Highland village of Carrbridge on Saturday October 6. World Porridge Day is celebrated on October 10 every year and the championship is held as close to that date as possible. The founder of the event was owner of the Fairwinds Hotel and secretary of the Carrbridge Community Council Roger Reed, whose idea was to raise the profile of the village and porridge. At the time of the first event, Roger was quoted as saying ‘porridge is a very healthy food and we should make more people aware of this’. Roger and his team sent out more than 700 invitations to B&Bs, guest houses and restaurants throughout Scotland, but the competition is still open to amateur and professional porridge makers.
Going nuts over Scottish-made f igurines
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World Porridge Day promotes Scotland’s national dish and helps feed hungry kids
The first sponsors of the event were Hamlyns of Scotland, The Oatmeal of Alford and Border Oats. Today, Hamlyns remains the main sponsor. While initial entrants in the competition came from throughout Scotland, the field now includes Sweden, Ireland, Canada and the USA. As well as for traditional porridge making, there is also a
trophy for the best specialty porridge where competitors add a choice of ingredients to their porridge base. To further promote the event, in 2009 the Golden Spurtle organisers chose Mary’s Meals as a charity to support. The charity operates its international headquarters from a tin shed in the Argyll area of the Scottish Highlands and provides a daily meal of maize-based porridge in a place of education to hungry children in 14 of the poorest countries across the globe. One year after the introduction of Mary’s Meals into these schools, one hundred per cent of teachers interviewed said children in their class found it easier to learn because they started the day with nutritious food. For further information visit https://goldenspurtle.com or https://www.marysmeals.org.uk
THE little pipers and drummers made of out of nuts and bolts that were featured in an earlier issue of Scots News Magazine, now have some brothers and sisters. Stuart MacDonald and his wife Jacqui set up MacDonald Pipe Band Fabrications in Scotland in 2017, and have now expanded into Essentially Nuts to cater for growing client requests. “I come from a family of pipers, drummers and drum majors, which gave me the inspiration to start producing the figurines,” Mr MacDonald said. “The original plan was to produce a range of Pipe Band related figurines to see who would be interested in my creations. At first, I thought it would just be family and friends, but I have received enquiries from all over the world, including Australia, New Zealand, America, Canada, China and South Africa.”
The product list includes World Pipe Band Champion medal holders, bookends and wedding and anniversary displays. He started to receive enquiries about making figurines of fly fishermen, guitar players, accordion players, singers and dancers. “I have produced sporting figurines including footballers, golfers, lawn bowlers and hockey players. There is also a range of Pipe Band related key rings.” Each standard size figurine is carefully hand-crafted using nuts, bolts, tube, round and square bar and mounted on a baseplate. They are then TIG welded and polished or coloured. The finishing touches include a felt base and a unique production number. To see the whole range of products and to place an order visit www.essentiallynuts.co.uk or message via Facebook @essentiallynuts.
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Bruce movie covers personal trials and bigbudget battles
AMERICAN actor Chris Pine plays Robert the Bruce in a Netflix Original production of The Outlaw King which has been shot on location in Scotland. The movie tells the story of how Bruce, who defied England’s King Edward I, became a hunted fugitive. The King of Scots hopes to get back control of his country after the King of England declares that he is an outlaw after stirring the country to civil war. He turned the tables to inflict a crushing defeat on the English army at Bannockburn, and ultimately won Scottish independence. Outlaw King tracks Robert the Bruce through a series of personal trials and tribulations to the battle for Scottish independence, and facing off against one of the most powerful armies to fight for freedom and self-determination. Outlaw King had its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and is scheduled to be released by Netflix on November 9. Another major Scottish-based history epic is the new movie Mary Queen of Scots which is due to launch in North America in December, and the UK in January.
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Braemar has a long and proud history Scots News Magazine reader Davie Lamont hails from the village of Braemar in Aberdeenshire where his family has been since 1464. As we prepare to celebrate St Andrew’s Day, Davie shares some information about Braemar where relics of Scotland’s patron saint were first housed. IN 731, Acca the deposed Abbot/ Bishop of Hexham, Northumberland arrived at Doldencha (the site of present day Braemar Castle). Acca carried relics of St Andrew, said to be fingers and a kneecap. Oengus, King of Picts (729–761) was in residence at his hunting lodge, Doldencha. Marr (Braemar District) had long been the hunting ground of Royals. A chapel called the White Kirk was built some 300 yards south of the Hunting Lodge to house and honour these relics. This was the first church and land consecrated to St Andrew in Scotland. Here the relics remained for some 500 years before being removed to present day St Andrews in Fife. These relics are now located in St Andrews Cathedral in Amalfi in Southern Italy. St Andrews in Fife had long been known as Kilrimont and was the location of an important Celtic Muinter (community). It was a monastery and a place of retirement for several Kings. Braemar district was known as St Andrews until the 1780s when it became more widely known as present day Braemar. The Royal family take their autumn break (hunting) at Balmoral Castle, nine miles from Braemar, and attend the Braemar Gathering each year in the first week of September. The Raising of the Standard for the first Jacobite Rebellion took place in Braemar on September 6, 1715 and the present day Games are held as near to that date as possible to commemorate the occasion.
St Andrew patron saint of Scotland
Braemar Castle
King Malcolm Canmore (1058– 1093) organised the first recorded Hill Race from Braemar Castle up Craig Choinnich, and the winner was a MacGregor lad. Canmore wanted the very best athletes to serve him so started competitions to single out champions. The Braemar Games carry on that tradition.
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THE Outlander craze is real. Even before the television series, Gabaldon’s novels were huge sellers. The main ingredients of her recipe are two attractive protagonists—20th century Claire, who time-slips into the lush scenery of 18th century Scotland and her Highland Jacobite lover, Jamie. The story covers battles, cruel discoveries, brutality, relationship problems, and the over-riding theme of romantic love and sex against the odds. The enthusiasm for the story has resulted in record tourism numbers in Scotland and created a plethora of Scottish romance novels featuring covers with barechested warriors in kilts, and even more imaginatively, Outlanderinspired knitting books. In the gap between television series, such is the sense of loss felt by Outlander fans that the experience has been dubbed ‘Droughtlander’. However, the thing about the Outlander phenomenon that I think needs to be acknowledged is that it is not really new, and that it is essentially conservative and of course, reductive. The first popular romanticising of the Scottish Highlands in novels can be attributed to Walter Scott, two hundred years earlier. In his novels Waverley (1814) and Rob Roy (1817), for example, Scott made the more colourful (and previously outlawed) aspects of Highland culture - kilts, swords, distinctive language - alluring and newly acceptable to upper and middle class English readers. On one hand his bias was a conservative one, that is, a nostalgia for the past in an idealised form, but through his fiction he was rehabilitating perceptions about the ‘barbarous’ Highlanders. His novels are highly intelligent, and trace a deep conflict between impulses for the past and for a forward-looking Scottish sense of identity.
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The Outlander Effect On the weekend of October 20 and 21, 600 fans of author Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series of books will meet at the Australian Standing Stones at Glen Innes for an exclusive experience. The clock will be turned back to 1743 and guests will live the Highlander life and experience the romance and drama of the books and subsequent television series. Mhairead MacLeod looks at this fascination for the Highlands of Scotland.
20th century Claire time-slips into the lush scenery of 18th century Scotland with her Highland Jacobite lover, Jamie. Like many of Scott’s successors, the Outlander series similarly represents the Highlands in familiar tropes of wildness, the exotic, and the ‘other’. Characters are represented as wild because the landscape is, and perhaps because of the area’s ancient clan and cross-border conflicts. But this is a long way from the reality of Scotland and the complexity of the culture, a long way from the Scottish Enlightenment in science, philosophy and economic thought that thrived in the 18th century and led Europe intellectually. Perhaps it’s the turbulence of Scottish history which fascinates,
though more plausibly it is the scorching romance central to the story. The Outlander novels and television series (a mix of historical fiction, romance and science/ fantasy), also contain references to real events among the imagined. In this way, they also inform the fans, or one can hope, may make them curious enough to explore those actual events which the fiction references. The Outlander effect had its roots in the early nineteenth century but is now firmly entrenched in the twenty-first, propelled by the centuries-old allure of romance. The house of the historical novel has many rooms.
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ANNIVERSARIES IN SCOTTISH HISTORY October October 3, 1357 - Treaty of Berwick, freeing David II from imprisonment by the English. October 3, 1594 - Battle of Glenlivet, George Gordon, Earl of Huntly, defeated a Royalist force under 7th Earl of Argyll. October 4, 1883 - Boys’ Brigade founded in Glasgow. October 11, 1297 - Letter from Wallace and Moray to the mayors of Lubeck and Hamburg saying that “The Kingdom of Scotland has, by God’s Grace, recovered by battle from the power of the English”. October 13, 1644 - Battle of Aberdeen, James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, sacked the city. October 16, 1430 - King James II born. October 17, 1346 - Battle of Neville’s Cross during which King David II was captured by the English. October 19, 1687 - First sedan chairs available for public hire introduced to Edinburgh. October 26, 1760 - George III crowned, beginning a 60 year reign, one of the longest in British history. October 27, 1854 - William Smith, founder of the Boys’ Brigade, born. October 28, 1562 - Battle of Corrichie, Earl of Moray defeated Catholic Gordons of Huntly who were attacking Aberdeen. October 28, 1794 - Birth of Robert Liston in Linlithgow who was to carry out the first operation in Britain with the aid of an anaesthetic.
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November 12, - St Machar Day, patron saint of Aberdeen. November 12, 1094 - King Duncan II died at Battle of Monthechin, Kincardine. November 15, 1715 - The Glasgow Courant, the city’s first newspaper, appeared for the first time. November 22, 1515 - Birth of Mary of Guise, the French Queen Consort of James V. She was regent of Scotland during the minority reign of her daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots. November 24, 1331 - David II (aged 7) crowned at Scone. November 24, 1542 - Rout of Solway Moss in which King James V sent a force of 10,000 into England which was defeated by an English force led by Sir Thomas Wharton. November 25, 1681 - General Tam Dalyell raises a regiment to suppress Covenanters which later became the Royal Scots Greys. November 25, 1835 - Steel magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie born in Dunfermline. November 28, 1666 - Battle of Rullion Green on the Pentland Hills, south-west of Edinburgh, in which the King’s army led by Sir Tam Dalyell defeated the Covenanters. November 29, 1599 - Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons granted its charter by King James VI. November 29, 1681 - Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, granted its charter by King Charles II.
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Limited edition of Scottish-Australian poet’s ballad to be reproduced
BOOKS WILLIAM Henry (Will) Ogilvie (1869-1963), poet and journalist, was born on August 21, 1869 near Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland. His father's family had managed estates in the Scottish Border country for 300 years. William boarded at Kelso High School, riding his pony home and back at weekends, then went to Fettes College, Edinburgh, where he excelled as an athlete and scholar. His love of horses, and the ballads of Adam Lindsay Gordon, turned his eyes to Australia. His father agreed that 'colonial experience' would benefit him. So in 1889 Will was sent to Australia with an introduction to William Scott of Belalie station, north of Bourke. He was captivated by the outback and for twelve years roamed from the Channel country of Queensland to the Coorong of South Australia. Horse-breaking, droving, mustering and camping out on the vast plains became the salt of life to him. As he wrote in My Life in the Open (London, 1910) the Australian bush 'has a spell that brings the drover and traveller back again and again to worship at the shrine of its silent beauty’. This love of the outback he translated almost immediately into verses and ballads that appeared first in The Bulletin. His verses covered every facet
As part of the 150th anniversary celebrations in 2019 of the birth of Scottish-Australian poet WILL H OGILVIE, the Will H Ogilvie Memorial Trust will reproduce a limited edition of his epic reiving ballad Whaup o’ the Rede. Only 200 books will be reproduced by subscription at a cost of £UK25 ($AUS44) plus postage. Email Ann Holt at holt625@btinternet.com. of bush life and every part of the outback he knew. He wrote as he rode. His rhythmic lines seem to keep time to the beat of horsehooves, the crack of the stockwhip and the clink of snaffle-bars. Among his best-known poems are The Death of Ben Hall, The Riding of the Rebel and Fair Girls and Gray Horses, the title-piece of his first collection (Sydney, 1898). His poem, On Morant ('He should have been one of the Cavaliers/ Who fought in King Charles's cause') was written for Harry 'The Breaker' Morant who he had met in the early 1890s and with whom he had become firm friends, each admiring the other man's horsemanship. In 1901 Ogilvie returned to Scotland where he lived a countryman's life, riding and hunting but continuing to write. He sent back verses to The Bulletin, certainly until 1905. He contributed topical verses to Sunday Graphic throughout World War I, including his popularisation of a British officer's comment that
An anniversary collector’s edition of Whaup o’ the Rede to be produced
the Australian soldier was 'the bravest thing God ever made'. He published eighteen books of Scottish verse and prose and is recognised as a bush balladist comparable to Gordon and 'Banjo' Paterson, particularly with regard to horses and horsemanship. He died on January 30, 1963 at Ashkirk, Selkirk, Scotland.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
WHAT’S ON in OCTOBER and NOVEMBER
WHAT’S COMING UP
October 6 - Braw Scots Night hosted by Clan Campbell Society. Visit www.facebook.com/events/1832779287014867.
December 4 to 20 - Celtic Christmas Lunch at Fox and Hounds Brisbane. www.foxandhounds.net.au
October 19 - Sounds of Scotland hosted by Brisbane Boys College Pipe Band at Toowong from 7pm to 9.30pm.
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October 20 - BBC Old Collegians Pipe Band Highland Ball at Mercure Brisbane Hotel from 6.30pm. Visit theball.oldcollegianspipeband.com. November 11 - The Battle’s Oer to be played across Australia to celebrate centenary of the armistice to end WWI. To register your performance location visit www.pipebandsaustralia.com.au November 24 - Toowoomba Caledonian Society and Pipe Band Inc will host a St Andrew’s Night at Drayton Hall from 7pm. Bookings to Marg on 0429 700 217. November 24 - St Andrew’s Dinner at Townsville RSL Club hosted by Townsville RSL Pipes and Drums.
January 25 - Burns Supper www.foxandhounds.net.au
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February 2 - Burns in the Bush at Thuringowah RSL Club April 13 - Highland Gathering at Brisbane Boys College, Toowong. April 25 - Scots Who Have Served marching in Townsville ANZAC Parade. June 15 - Clansmen’s Ceilidh in Townsville June 16 - Townsville Tartan Day
November 30 - St Andrew’s Day Ceilidh at Red Hill Community Sports Club. Visit www.facebook.com/CeilidhClan November 30 - St Andrew’s Dinner at Fox and Hounds Wongawallan. Tickets $49pp. Bookings to 5665 7582. Small Pipe learning and playing held at Milton on the first Tuesday of each month from 7pm. Contact Malcolm on 3820 2902 or Ken on 3279 4093. Gaelic classes are held each month in Brisbane. Visit www.facebook.com/BrisbaneGaelic for details.
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April 6 - Brigadoon - Bundanoon Highland Gathering. www.brigadoon.org.au. May 2 to 5 - Australian Celtic Festival at Glen Innes. The featured Celtic nation is Scotland.
NEW SOUTH WALES October 20 to 21 - Outlander Fan Gathering at the Australian Standing Stones when the clocks will turn back to 1743. Only 600 places available. www.outlanderfangathering.com.au.
SCOTTISH TUNES AND CONVERSATION ON THE RADIO Join Ron Tannock every Thursday night from 7pm to 9.30pm and every second Saturday from 9am to noon for the Sounds of Ireland (and Scotland), on Burnett River Radio 91.5FM broadcasting to Gayndah and Central Burnett region. Colin Nightingale hosts Acoustic Harvest every second Thursday night at 8pm on bayFM100.3. Enjoy ‘A wee bit o’ Scotland on Thursday’ on 4EBFM98.1 from 2.15pm to 4.30pm. Scottish Program on Global Digital Radio (4EB) each Sunday from 2pm to 3pm. Triple T 103.9 Townsville Community Radio’s Scottish Program each Sunday from 3pm to 5pm with Don MacDonald.
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