SATURDAY SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
8:30 AM
- Heavy Sports Throwing Clinic begins (West Side of School)
9:00 AM
- Celtic Market Booth open (around Main Field)
- Drum Major Clinic (Main Field)
- Highland Dance Day 1 Competition, runs all day until finish (SE corner of park)
- Heavy Sports Throwing Clinic (West Side of School)
10:00 AM
- Food trucks are open for business!
- Heavy Sports Area Bar and Scooter’s Bar (N side of Festival Tent) open until 4 pm
- Amateur / Masters Combined Heavy Sports Competition (West side of school )
- St. Andrews Caledonian Society Pipe Band (Main Field)
10:30 AM
- Drum Major Performance (Main Field)
11:00 AM
- Regimental Pipes & Drums of the Calgary Highlanders (Main Field)
12:00 PM
- Sheepdog Demonstration by Gary Bissell (Main Field)
1:00 PM
- Highland Dance Competition events continue
- 78th Fraser Highlanders Black Powder Shoot (Main Field)
1:45 PM
- Pipes & Drums of the Kamloops Pipe Band Society (Main Field)
2:30 PM
- Rollin Drones, Live Celtic Rock Band from Glasgow
3:30 PM
- Massed Pipes & Drums
- All Highland Games events conclude by 4pm
5 – 9 PM
- Taste of the Highlands, separate tickets required (Spring Creek Festival Tent)
6 – 11 PM
- Scooter’s Bar with live music by Na’ Seanachie, Free (N of Spring Creek Festival Tent)
SUNDAY SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
7:30 AM
- Pancake Breakfast served until 10 am (Spring Creek Festival Tent)
8:00 AM
- Solo Piping & Drumming Competitions (Main field and former heavy sports area)
- Heavy Sports Registration begins (SW corner of park)
- Celtic Market & Games Food Booth opens (Festival Tent)
8:15 AM
- Highland Dance registration opens (SE corner of park)
9:00 AM
- Highland Dance Day 2 Competition morning events to begin, runs all day until finish (SE corner of park)
- British Car and Motorcycle Show opens (Traffic circle just outside S. Gate, entrance from inside of park after gate)
10:00 AM
- Highland Cattle Live Animal Exhibition opens until 5pm (S side of park)
- Open / Pro and Women’s Heavy Sports Competition, West side of school
- Beer Garden opens with live music and dance entertainment until 5 pm, with The Tilted Kilts, Royal Scottish Country Dance Society of Calgary, Fraid Knot, Backbeat Irish Dancers (Spring Creek Festival Tent)
- Games Food Booth open (Spring Creek Festival Tent)
- Food trucks open (field)
11:00 AM
- Tug of War registration (at Tent), west end of Main Field
12:00 PM
- Sheep dog demonstration by Gary Bissell, Main Field, times to be confirmed.
12:40 PM
- Kids Tug of War, Main Field (2 boys teams, 2 girls teams)
1:00 PM
- Official opening ceremonies – Canmore Highland Games (ATCO Stage, Main Field)
1:15 PM
- Adult Tug of War Heats Main Field
1:30 PM
- Highland Dance Competition events continue
- Pipe Band Competition begins (Main Field)
- Beer Garden entertainment continues with live music
- First Whisky Tasting, Scooter’s Bar, separate ticketed event (North end of the Spring Creek Festival Tent) tickets available at Games Retail Booth in Spring Creek Festival Tent
3:30 PM
- Second Whisky Tasting, Scooter’s Bar, separate ticketed event (North end of the Spring Creek Festival Tent) tickets available at Games Retail Booth in Spring Creek Festival Tent
4:45 PM
- Adult Tug of War final contest, main field
5:00 PM
- The Amazing Highland raffle draw
- Massed Pipes & Drums of the Canmore Highland Games
- Official closing ceremonies and awards for Piping and Drumming
6:00 PM
- The Canmore Ceilidh, big kitchen party opens, separate ticketed event (Spring Creek Festival Tent)