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Scottish Highland Football League: Strathspey Thistle FC v Brora Rangers FC, Seafield Park, Grantown-on-Spey, kick-off 8pm. Parking at ground (overflow parking at nearby Grantown-on-Spey Golf Club by kind permission and at own risk, or at Burnfield Road car park.). Snack bar open, covered wheelchair spaces and free seating in stand when available.
Pick up in Grantown with short drive to the Dava. Return to Grantown along the former railway line now the Dava Way. Distance is 8 miles of easy walking with no hills. Learn about the people and the place, the history, heritage and folklore with local Scottish Tourist Guides Association member.
A walk around the historic planned town of 1765 and capital of Strathspey. The walk will progress through the beautiful Anagach woods with their autumn colours to Old Spey Bridge (1754) and the River Spey. Following a different route we will return to the High St and Square. Discover Grantown’s rich heritage, the people and the place.
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the community ownership of our stunning local woodlands the Anagach Woods, with 3 top musicians performing music about Scotland’s native forests. Hamish Napier’s album ‘The Woods’ beautifully evokes the nature and nurture of the woodlands, and brings it to life in music that delights and causes rising joy.
★★★★★ “The Woods is a beautifully constructed, evocative and distinctive album…a splendid and rare treat.” SONGLiNES Magazine
Come and join the town of Grantown as we celebrate together, and look forward to the next 20 years!
PERFORMERS:
Hamish Napier – wooden flutes, whistles, piano & stories
Patsy Reid – fiddle & viola
Innes Watson – guitars & fiddle
Clova Half Marathon is a popular race at the end of season. The course is picturesque and undulating, with weather, which can range from lovely sunshine, sideways rain to ice and snow. The route starts from the Clova Hotel, taking in a circular route. The race has a 3 hour cut off and is not suitable for novices.
THE FREDDIE & QUEEN EXPERIENCE are the UK’s premier Queen & Freddie Mercury Tribute Band, internationally and critically acclaimed – an electrifying show that celebrates the music of unarguably the greatest rock band in the world.
The band performs all over the world with sell out shows in the UK and abroad.
They deliver a passionate and energy packed show just full of QUEEN’s greatest hits including Bohemian Rhapsody, Don’t Stop Me Now, A Kind Of Magic, Under Pressure, Someone To Love, Killer Queen, Radio Ga-Ga, We Are The Champions to name just a few.
A walk through the grounds of Castle Grant to the original site of old Grantown, the predessor of the 1765 town we know today. Continue through the woodland to the site where a Pictish stone was discovered. Then passed Castle Grant the historical home of Clan Grant with numerous historical and legendary tales to tell.
Return to the West Lodge along a stretch of the Dava Way.
Explore Inverallan cemetery with it’s Pictish stone, Standing stone and baptismal font. Hear the story of the wart stone and some of the local characters buried in Inverallan.
Progress along the River Spey past the new Cairn distillery to Ballintomb. Here look at the standing stones and their possible origins and the continuing use of the hillock as the assembly point of clan Grant and Regality Court in later centuries.
Join us this autumn for a foraging walk with Tamara Colchester in the grounds and gardens of Blair Castle. This three hour walk will take us along hedgerow and into the woods – looking at the nutrition and medicine offered to us in the form of nuts, roots, tree-barks, berries and, of course, mushrooms.
Moving slowly and with heightened awareness, we will attune to the interwoven lives of wild animals, plants and fungi. Using all our senses we will connect with the wonder of autumn’s bounty, before making a wild berry tea, learning some herbal preparations and enjoying some delicious foraged treats around the fire.
Roderick Macpherson, Unicorn Pursuivant – “1672-2022: the 350th Anniversary of the Lyon Court Controversy over Cluny’s Coat of Arms”
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