Celebrate heritage at the Doric Festival
Doric is a dialect spoken only in the north-east of Scotland - particularly around Aberdeenshire - and the festival celebrates traditional music, theatre performance, writing and heritage.
With workshops, performances, drama, exhibitions, language, song and cultural traditions, the Doric Festival takes place over two weeks from the end of September to the beginning of October and encourages communities in the Doric-speaking areas of Scotland to organise their own events.
The festival is concerned with keeping Doric language and culture alive and provides a taste of Scotland in times past, encouraging cultural development to ensure that the heritage survives as a living tradition.
A number of highland games events take place in Aberdeen and the Grampian region between July and the beginning of September each year, combining sporting, cultural and social traditions, with field and track events, Highland dancing and piping contests, and heavy events such as throwing the caber and the tug-o-war.
[topicstart] Aberdeen, September, Doric, Aberdeen [topicend]
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24.08.2007.