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Glasgow, Ky., is named for Glasgow, Scotland, and a competitive event in Barren County each year would make any kilt-wearing Scotsman proud.
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The Glasgow Highland Games take place in Barren County the first weekend of June each year. The Games have been held for more than 25 years. About 10,000 spectators and participants typically attend the event at Barren River Lake State Resort Park.
The Highland Games have a true Scottish feel, complete with weekend-long bagpipe performances along with Celtic dances and concerts. Competitive attractions include the caber toss, hurling, sheep herding, Highland wrestling and haggis tossing.
“The haggis toss features a 20-pound sack filled with animal intestines, and competitors take a pitchfork and heave the sack as far as they can,” Bobby Lee Hurt, vice president of the Glasgow Highland Games says. “The games are unusual and a lot of fun, and they're a big asset to Glasgow and Barren County.”
Hurt says he knows several people who have moved to Glasgow permanently after visiting for the Highland Games and falling in love with the community.
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The Kentucky Tourism Council named the 2010 Glasgow Highland Games one of the top 10 annual festivals to be staged in Kentucky.
“The first year of the games saw about 400 people in attendance, with all the events taking place in a small open field,” Hurt says. “Now we are a well-known festival that keeps growing in scope every year.”
Learn about more happenings in Glasgow, KY.
JAN 04 | Society Annual Meeting 4-6pm (TBA) Dinner to follow The Back Stage Evenet Center | Nicholson's Cincinnati, OH | WWW |
JAN 25 | Rabbie Burns Scottish Supper (FLYER) 6-10pm | Quality Hotel Blue Ash, OH | WWW |
FEB TBA | Dine for Dancers: Support the OVSS dance scholarship fund and indoor competition | Grand Finale Glendale, OH | WWW |
FEB TBA | Caledonian Society scholarship fundraiser | TBD | WWW |
MAR 14 | St. Patrick's Day Parade 12 Noon | Downtown Cincinnati, OH | WWW |
MAR 21 | OVSS Indoor Highland Dance Competition | Waldorf School Cincinnati, OH | WWW |
APR 06 | National Tartan Day | WWW | |
APR TBA | Caledonian Pipes & Drums Tartan Ceilidh | WWW | |
MAY TBA | Society Spring Meeting | TBA | WWW |
TBA | Celtic Beltane Festival | TBA | WWW |
MAY 16-17 | Smokey Mountain Scottish Festival & Games | Maryville College Maryville, TN | WWW |
MAY 23-24 | Alma Highland Festival & Gathering of the Clans | Bahlke Field, Alma College; Alma , MI | WWW |
MAY 29-31 | Glasgow, Kentucky Highland Games | Glasgow, KY | WWW |
MAY 30 - JUL 12 | Kentucky Highland Renaissance Festival (Weekends Only) | Eminence, KY | WWW |
TBA | Celtic Fest Ohio | Waynesville, OH | WWW |
JUN 26-27 | Ohio Scottish Games | Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds Berea, OH | WWW |
JUN 27-JUL 03 | Ohio Scottish Arts School | Baldwin-Wallace Univ. Berea, OH | WWW |
JUL 09-12 | Grandfather Mountain Highland Games | MacRae Meadows Linville , NC | WWW |
AUG 28-30 | Cincinnati Celtic Festival | Downtown Cincinnati | WWW |
AUG TBA | Annual Founders' Day Corn Roast | TBA | WWW |
SEP TBA | Columbus (Indiana) Scottish Festival | Bartholomew County Fairgrounds Columbus , IN | WWW |
OCT 16-18 | Stone Mountain Highland Games & Scottish Festival | Stone Mountain Park Stone Mountain , GA | WWW |
OCT TBA | Society Fall Meeting | TBA | WWW |
NOV 30, 2019 | Saint Andrew's Tartan Ball (FLYER) | Netherland Plaza Cincinnati, OH | WWW |
NOV 30 | Saint Andrew's Day | WWW | |
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WED Evenings | Scottish Country Dancing | Pleasant Ridge Presbyterian Church 5950 Montgomery Road Cincinnati, OH | WWW |
- Burns Night - Author of 'Auld Lang Syne' and many other songs commonly sung even today, coiner of the phrase 'Wad some power the giftie gie us tae see oursel's as ithers see us', Robert Burns is the National Poet of the Scottish culture. Born January 25th, 1759, his birthday is celebrated annually by Scots all over the world in various forms from the very formal to the more casual. The Society follows the latter tradition each January on the Friday closest to his birthday with food and drink, song, poetry, dancing and the ubiquitous (for Scots) bagpipes. Come join us.
- Corn Roast - Every August, just for fun, members and friends gather for a day of burgers, hot dogs, sausages, and corn, piping, country dancing and summertime companionship. We provide the grillables, corn, and soft drinks, tea and coffee.
- St. Andrew's Day - St. Andrew is the patron Saint of many countries, including Scotland. He is perhaps more personal to Scots since tradition has it that late in the Roman era of Britain, (according to Catholic tradition), an angel appeared to St. Regulus, or Rule, and directed him to disperse the bones of Andrew 'in the four corners of the earth'. In the course of this mission, St. Regulus and St. Theneva arrived in Scotland where a miraculously revived St. Andrew appeared. The three saints then erected the church of St. Andrew. His bones were kept there until the Reformation, at which time they disappeared.
- St. Andrew's Night - St. Andrew's Night is celebrated with much pomp and circumstance. The setting is reminiscent of a castle 'great hall', with Clan Banners and Crests suspended over colorful kilted gentlemen and beautifully gowned ladies. The evening begins after a cocktail hour, with entry of the officers, each accompanied by a piper, banner bearer and armed escort. Dinner follows, after which the annual Caledonian Scholarship and a Scholastic Excellence Award is presented to local students, and contributors to the Society and the community are recognized. Guests spend the remainder of the evening in modern and Scottish country dancing and enjoying performances of The Caledonian Pipes, Drums and Dancers, and the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society. Formal kilted attire and dresses are preferred, but coat and tie is acceptable.
- Society Meetings
- Annual Meeting - The purpose of this meeting is solely to elect trustees and officers and to conduct the business of the Society.
- Spring and Fall Meetings - These are primarily social gatherings and members may bring guests. The format is usually a cocktail hour followed by dinner, after which a short program of entertainment or piping is usually offered. As a rule business is restricted to election of new members.