Brigadoon Highland Gathering
Are you in love with Jamie Fraser? Well you are in luck, for all you Outlander fans out there, you can experience a touch of clan country when Bundanoon transforms itself to host the Brigadoon Highland Gathering.
Brigadoon – Saturday 1st April 2017 – Bundanoon – Southern Highlands NSW
Brigadoon in 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of the highland gathering in Bundanoon. Bundanoon has a long connection with its Scottish Heritage (find out more on this blog post ).
Out of the southern highlands Autumn mist emerges Brigadoon, the Bundanoon Highland Gathering. There will be lots of activities leading up to the main event with a huge day planned for the 1st April. You will be entertained by the haunting sounds of bagpipes by 20 Pipe Bands.
You will see the strength of both men and women as they compete in the highland games, and lifting the Stones of Manhood.
There will be the Tartan Warriors and Scottish dancers.
Market stalls will be set up with lots of eating options catered for. You won’t want to miss this, as this is the largest event of its kind in Australia.
The Pipe Bands at Brigadoon
Whether it’s marching in the street parade, performing individually or with the massed bands or even when they are warming up in a corner of the Bundanoon Oval surrounds, the pipe bands are an integral part of Brigadoon. Some of the bands have been coming to Brigadoon for many years bringing with them the pageantry, colour and sounds that are unique to this type of event.
Chieftain of the Day — Jimmy Barnes AO
For the 40th Anniversary Celebrations of The Bundanoon Highland Gathering the organisers are extremely proud, honoured and delighted to announce that the Chieftain of the Day will be Jimmy Barnes
As front-man for the legendary Cold Chisel, Jimmy Barnes tore through the Australian music scene in the 70s and 80s, then went on to do the same as a solo artist.
Jimmy has been inducted into the Aria Hall of fame twice — once with Cold Chisel in 1993 and then as a solo artist in 2005.
On Australia Day 2017 Jimmy Barnes was appointed an Officer of the General Division of the Order of Australia ‘for distinguished service to the performing arts as a musician, singer and songwriter, and through support for not-for-profit organisations, particularly to children with a disability.’
Jimmy Barnes lives locally, in Berrima in the Southern Highlands.
