Entries close tonight and absolutely no late entries will be accepted for any reason.

Visit www.cowalgathering.com to enter now!

Regards

The last date for entries is the 1st July 2010 and absolutely no entries will be accepted after this date. Please make sure you enter is plenty of time and do not risk forgetting and missing the deadline by leaving it to the last minute.

For those of you who have already entered you should have received an email confirming your entry has been processed. If you have not had a confirmation e-mail please contact the office.

Thanks

Malcolm

The seating and admission tickets for this year’s Cowal Highland Gathering will go on sale on Monday 22nd February 2010 at 12 noon (UK time).

At this time the link on the home page of the Gathering’s website (www.cowalgathering.com) will go live and clicking on the link will take you to the order forms. Please note all payments will be processed by Paypal, however, it is not necesarry to have a Paypal account to pay in this way. Simply have your card details to hand and the payment will go through Paypals secure servers.

As always we expect great demand for the Saturday Grandstand seats and these are likely to sell out in the first 10 minutes or so and as such we recommend you are online early.

Other key dates will be confirmed soon so please keep checking for regular updates.

Regards

Malcolm Barclay

Event Manager

The page will publish news, updates, photos and will ask for feedback on certain matters as well as being a way for fans of Cowal to communicate with each other.

We hope that you will visit us and sign up, 214 already have in less than a week, and keep coming back for your vital updates and to share messages and photos etc.

See you online soon!

Malcolm

Were you lucky enough to be part of the Ceilidh tent last year?

If so you will know that it rocked – the Red Hot Chilli Pipers put on a dazzlingdisplay of piping and drumming – with special guest appearance by the Red Hot Chilli Dancers. Back by popular demand – the Chilli’s will once again be our headline act in 2009.

However this year we also have the fabulous Skerryvore who have promised to bring along their brass section – and this will be a foot-tapping session not to be missed. We will also be showcasing young talent – so look forward to the two sets of cousins who make up Tiriodh.

Archie McAllister is putting a band together to get the Ceilidh tent off to a flying start – so updates will follow as Archie announces his line-up.

This year the Ceilidh Tent will undoubtedly be the place to be – from 12 noon right up to the massing of the bands at the end of the day. Unbeatable value for money – Event tickets are now on sale at a pre-event price of £10 – so don’t miss this fabulous opportunity to see these top acts while visiting the 2009 Cowal Gathering.

Tickets available from www.cowalgathering.com

Plans for this year’s event are really moving forward!

Dancing entries are coming in thick and fast and the move to a random draw for the dancing order seems to have been very well accepted. It is a much fairer way for the order to be decided and means that those who could not be online when it goes live are not disadvantaged,
It also means our overseas competitors no longer have to get up in the middle of the night to enter. I always felt so sorry for the Canadian and American dancers who got up at 4am to submit their form. Now it is only us in the office that need to lose sleep over the entry process.

Solo Piping entries will go live on the 20th April and i am really pleased to confirm there will be a c grade competition for the seniors this year. Although there are only 20 places available and they will go to the first 20 to enter. So dont wait to enter get your form in as soon as they go live.

Much more news to come but i dont want to over load everyone in my first blog..

Please come back for regular updates.