N.B. Highland Games giving everyone chance to feel Scottish for a day
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The fortieth edition of the New Brunswick Highland Games Festival runs this weekend, expecting to attract thousands of spectators.
The fortieth edition of the New Brunswick Highland Games Festival runs this weekend in Fredericton, attracting participants and spectators from around the region and beyond.
Bagpipes welcome spectators to the grounds of Government House, where it’s expected about four thousand people will attend over the weekend, as they take in highland dancing, piping and the crowd favourite heavy events.
Festival communications director Devin Patterson says the event transports spectators to Scotland.
“All the cultural elements, the highland dance, the kilts, the sights and smells of Scotland, definitely all part of the excitement,” he said.
Participants come from all over the country. Zach smith is the lead drummer in the Dartmouth district pipe band, something he describes as a labour of love.
“It’s funny, I don’t enjoy the heat, I don’t enjoy wearing wool, I don’t enjoy sweating every weekend, but I really enjoy a pipe band,” he said.
Bill and Cheryl Kaiser are from Scranton, Pennsylvania where they play in a pipe band, but are taking in their first highland games at the tail end of a Canadian vacation.
“This is great, seeing different pipers and drummer competing, seeing the heavy weight events, we’re trying to take it all in,” she said.
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