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Thanks for a Great 60th Anniversary Games in 2007!
See you at the 2008 Games - August 1 & 2.
Since the first Games were held in 1948, the people of Glengarry have extended close to a million welcomes to visitors who come to see what is estimated to be one of the largest Highland Games in the world. Hundreds of thousands of people have found themselves drawn once a year to Maxville, to witness an outstanding display of music, dance, sports, fiddling, pageantry, and tradition.
In the course of the day, more than 60 pipe bands are put through their paces to decide the North American Pipe Band Championships™, more than 200 dancers defy gravity in the Highland Dance competition and giants hurl telephone pole-sized cabers and 50 pound iron hammers around the infield. It is a memorable and incredible event.
THE GLENGARRY HIGHLAND GAMES WELCOMES PETER MACKAY AS GUEST OF HONOUR
The Glengarry Highland Games is pleased to announce that the Honourable Peter Gordon MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. will be the Official Guest of the 2008 Games on Saturday, August 2, 2008. Minister MacKay joins a long list of illustrious Canadians who have opened the Games starting in 1948 with Prime Minister William Lyon MacKenzie King. Since then the Games has welcomed four more Prime Ministers, sports heroes such as Jean Belliveau, media personalities such as Lloyd Robertson, as well as astronaut Steve MacLean and our much decorated Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders Regiment for the Year of the Veteran. More...
Friday night Tattoo headliner announced
Scocha
Friday night's concert headliner will be Scocha. Foot stomping, sing-along, rousing, emotional, heart pounding, a Scocha gig is packed with the feel-good factor and people from all over the world are beginning to join the Scocha party.
Scocha was born when Lain SCOtt and David CHApman (SCO-CHA) got together to share their love of music and song. Both are from Hawick, a town in Scotland with a long standing fine tradition in song. With wide ranging appeal, Scocha’s music crosses all borders with tight vocal harmonies, Guitars, Bass, Bagpipes, Whistles, Bodhrans, Bouzoukis, and much more.
Traditional Scottish and Celtic music and song with a Rock n Roll attitude. It’s impossible to listen to Scocha without instinctively stomping your feet.
Troy MacGillivray
2008 East Coast Music Association Album of the Year winner Troy MacGillivray displays his mastery of fiddle and piano in an energetic live setting with the release of his 4th CD, Live At The Music Room. Entertaining from a young age, MacGillivray captivates audiences world-wide with his unique fiddle styling's and inspiring piano arrangements.