Posts for September, 2021

It was with great sadness that we had to cancel our Atholl Highlanders Weekend earlier on in May this year, we will be holding the Atholl Highlander’s Parade on Saturday 9th of October 2021 for visitors to attend.

The Atholl Highlanders are the only remaining private army in Europe and act as the personal bodyguard to the Duke of Atholl, who is Chief of Clan Murray. Whilst they don’t have any military role, they are armed with Lee Metford rifles and include a pipe band. Please note that the last entry to Blair Castle will be at 1 pm.

Atholl Highlander Parade Timetable

2.30 pm – Spectators assemble for the parade at Blair Castle

2.45 pm – Atholl Highlanders parade begins including The Marquis of Tullibardine (Michael Murray) who will be parading and deputising for his father.

3 pm – The Atholl Highlanders 3lb Field Gun will be fired

This cherished event also includes an inspection from The Right Honourable Lord Naren Patel of Dunkeld KT., FRSE., FMedSci. and long service presentations.

Entry is available with a standard Castle and Gardens or Garden ticket.

Book now and enjoy this spectacular Scottish experience!

Join us for our first live music event of the year, Halloween Dinner Dance.

It’s time to let your hair down, put on lots of scary makeup and dress to impress.

Join us for a 2-course meal, 5.30-8 pm, followed by the amazing Anne Dickson band playing all the classics from 9 pm-midnight.

This is a ticket only entry/event.

Tables and tickets can be purchased from our website or by calling 01540 661967.

We ask all guests to be original and creative with their Halloween custom !!

A sensational series of new compositions by renowned Scottish fiddler, Paul Anderson, paintings by distinguished Scottish artist John Lowrie Morrison (Jolomo) and verse written by eminent Irish lyricist Francie Devine inspired by the Scottish Island of Iona.

This is the premiere of this new blend of arts. The event will include performances of the music and written word combined with Jolomo’s evocative paintings.

This is a unique, once only event.

On the day when the Gathering usually takes place, the Braemar Highland Games Society is offering a few hours of relaxed and informal entertainment for locals and visitors who usually come in numbers to the village on this day.

The event will kick off with a march lead by the pipe band and leaving the Fife Arms Mews at 11.45am. In the park there will be some friendly races, piping, stalls, food and drink.

Plenty of parking is available in the Braemar Highland Games Park so we ask any visitors to use the parking in this area and make sure the village does not get congested.

Neo-traditional trio of nonconformist and progressive Scottish folk music Blasting onto the scene, Project Smok is Pablo Lafuente, Ewan Baird and BBC Young Traditional Musician of the year 2020 Ali Levack, whose forward thinking Scottish traditional music has set them apart since their formation in 2017. They released their EP Esperanza in March 2021, after their debut album Bayview was shortlisted for ‘Best Album of the Year’ 2020, nominated for the ‘Belhaven Bursary for Innovation’ 2019 and nominated for ‘Best up and coming Artist’ 2018 at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards. Known for their ability to effortlessly blend trad music with contemporary new-age pop influences, Project Smok are at their most comfortable pushing boundaries, making listeners stop and re-evaluate their musical expectations. They do away with any perceived limits of genre from the first note. The close-knit group meld naturally between the innovative, explosive and emotive, drawing outside inspiration from indie pop acts like The 1975, LANY and Bon Iver, to more time-honoured, West Coast styles of playing.

Charismatic Peggy Seeger – singer, songwriter, feminist, icon, Ewan MacColl’s partner and muse – is the undisputed queen of folk and political song.

On this ‘First Farewell’ tour, join Peggy and her son Calum MacColl, an exceptional musician in his own right, for a glorious evening of up-close performance in St. Margaret’s, Braemar.

Expect to hear a mixture of new and traditional songs from Peggy’s huge repertoire, plus some of her and Ewan MacColl’s most loved songs, interspersed with readings from Peggy’s award-winning memoir ‘The First Time Ever’.

There will of course be plenty of audience participation and lots of relaxed family banter.



“An effortlessly joyful and intimate affair”
– The Scotsman

Moishe’s Bagel was formed in 2003, the lucky meeting of an Edinburgh-based Chilean tango singer and four like-minded musicians. Their music is an intoxicating mix of Eastern European dance, Middle Eastern rhythms and virtuoso performances. According to The Scotsman ‘ they put the class into unclassified’.

As part of the ‘Nae Games Weekend’, a performance of highland dancing will take place at St Margaret’s on Saturday afternoon, giving visitors to Braemar the authentic Highland Games experience. There will be an explanation of highland dancing and expert judges, Vivienne Milne and Alison Gordon will explain how the dancers are judged during competition.

Ashley Fripp is welcomed back to Boat of Garten for his third visit as a guest of The Osprey Music Society. His recital will focus on two of his favourite composers, Chopin and Schubert. The concert will kick off with Chopin’s, ‘Impromptus 1 and 4’ followed by Schubert’s ‘Sonata in B flat major, D.960’, and after the interval the programme continues with Schubert’s ‘Impromptu in F minor’ followed by Chopin’s ‘Sonata No.3, opus 58 in B minor’.

Rant will be sure to get you up and dancing playing a variety of great music. Come along for a great night of Live music and some local craft beer!