Preparations for the 34th Highlands and Islands Music and Dance Festival are well under way. The competition element of the festival runs like a well-oiled machine with almost 100 volunteers involved in the organising, stewarding, and chaperoning of the contestants, adjudicators and visitors. The logistical exercise is not for the faint-hearted. Breege Smyth, who chairs the festival, is full of praise for the committee.
Senior Piping 27A Piobaireachd Grade B 1st Euan Dewar from Oban (Pipe Major of Oban Pipe Band).
Radio 2 Young Folk Award and H&I M&D Festival piping winners Brighde Chaimbeul and Chris Lee.