Highlands and Islands Music and Dance Festival

• What: A competitive highland fling for fans of traditional Scottish Dancing and music.
• When: May 3 to 6
• Where: Oban, on the Scottish coast in the Western Highlands
• Admission: £3.50 for the showcase of champions, £4 for the festival fling
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Young people from all over the highlands compete in traditional music and dancing. Prizes are awarded for accordion, fiddle, clarsach (a traditional Celtic harp), piano, recorder, woodwind & brass, singing, Scottish country dancing, highland dancing and choreography. The Oban Pipe Band leads the festival parade. In the invitational Piobaireachd, eleven of the highland's top pipers compete for trophies.