CALENDAR OF EVENTS WHAT’S ON in JUNE and JULY June 5 - Autumn Ceilidh hosted by the Toowoomba Caledonian Society Pipe Band. Tickets $10 each. https://www.facebook.com/ ToowoombaCaledonianSocietyPipeBand/ June 11 to 13 - Townsville Tartan Weekend including Heavy Games competition, music workshops, Clansmen Ceilidh and Tartan Day parade. Contact mlg7@optusnet.com.au. June 12 and 13 - Clydesdale Spectacular at Boonah . www.ticketbo.com.au/clydiespectacular June 26 - Tennents Tartan Tattoo at the Fox and Hound Country Inn, Wongawallan. three-course meal and Brisbane City Pipe Band. $59pp. Advance bookings only to 5665 7582.
WHAT’S COMING UP August 19 - 22 - Scots in the Bush at Boondooma Homestead www.boondoomahomestead.org.au August - Toow oomba Caledonian Society and Pipe Band 150th anniversary celebrations October 9 - Celtic Spectacular presented by Queensland Pops Orchestra at QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane. www.qpac.com.au October 15 - Scotland The Brave Pipe Celebration Dinner at Fox and Hounds Country Inn at Wongawallan. 5665 7582 October 23 - St Andrew of Scotland (Qld) Darling Downs Branch 30th birthday celebrations. 0412 987 771
July 10 - Mackay Scottish Bluewater Fling - a celebration of Scottish music, song and dance
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. Townsville and Thuringowah Pipe Band rehearse at the Thuringowah Sound Shell on Wednesday nights from 6.30pm. New members welcome.
Are you heading to THE CLYDESDALE SPECTACTULAR in Boonah on June 12 and 13? Are you interested in horses in QUEENSLAND and SCOTLAND? Get a signed copy of MURDER IN THE BUSH the true story of a young man who left the Highlands of Scotland to drove horses across pioneer country.
This book is based on real people, places and events .
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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. 12
Scots News Magazine June/July 2021
