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Marketing Team at The Highland Dancer
We have a great team of Brand Ambassadors and Marketeers - here are 3 of the young team having a great day at the Bute Dance Festival.
The First Gourock Highland Games – 1956
The First Gourock Highland Games – 1956The first Gourock Highland Games was held on Saturday 21st July 1956 to celebrate the official opening of the new playing fields at Gourock Park. It was considered that a Highland Gathering would have a wider appeal, particularly to women and children, than a sports meeting. The playing fields were opened by Scottish Rugby’s John Bannerman, and the Games were presided over by Chieftain Colonel Duncan Darroch, Laird of Gourock. Indeed, the Darroch family presided over the Games for the next thirty years or so. Eight pipe bands competed and the West of Scotland...
Photo shoot at The Highland Dancer
We were testing out some angles for a big photo shoot we have planned now the sun is out and we can be free of the ice cold rain and play on the beaches again :D Here are some of the cool images that we got last Sunday of Team Aiken.
Why not jig on down to do the Highland Hustle
We here at The Highland Dancer were working with a client today designing them a new Facebook page when we found out that they did a class called The Highland Hustle - well you can imagine our delight when we found out that dance and ceilidh, exercise and fun has been put together in an excellent way :D We are now looking to see if there is a club near us that we can join and if not trying to get some dancers to set one up :D So the question is... Have you joined in on the Highland Hustle...
All about The Scottish Official Board of Highland Dancing
www.sobhd.net All about The Scottish Official Board of Highland Dancing (This text has been copied off their website) Why they exist. The Scottish Official Board of Highland Dancing (SOBHD) was formed in 1950 through a wish by the major Highland Dance Examining Bodies, plus other teachers and leading dancers in the UK at that time, to have a supervisory Board, comprising delegates from the many different organisations involved in Highland Dance, which could lay down quality standards for all areas of Highland Dancing. It is important to note that the SOBHD is not a single Association but a representative body for all...
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