Harpenden Highland Gathering 2006

The 2006 Harpenden Highland Gathering was held on Sunday 16th July in Rothamsted Park, Harpenden.

It was a glorious, hot and sunny day, which helped to swell the numbers to a record breaking 10,000 people. The interims estimate of money raised for local charities is £10,000. The charity beneficiaries are:

• Community Meeting Point
• Sue Ryder Care, Stagenhoe
• Herts Young Homeless Group

Highland Gathering Picture Gallery 2006

Opening Ceremony

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Pipe Bands

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Solo Pipers

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Dancing

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Arena Events

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Charities

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Band

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Stalls

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General

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Images prefixed 'DGuest' are © David Guest 2006.

Original Announcement

Sunday 16th July 2006
Rothamsted Park,
Harpenden, AL5 2HU

10:00 am to 5:30 pm

Organised by Harpenden Lions Club in aid of local youth organisations and other charities, the Harpenden Highland Gathering is a family day out with a Scottish theme. For information and tickets please Email.

Download the Highland Gathering 2006 Leaflet - PDF 1.8 MB

Arena displays all day:

• Highland Dancing
• Pipe Bands
• Solo Piping Competitions
• Marching
• Sideshows
• Beer Tent
• Ox Roast
• Children's Funfair
• Heavy Events: Tossing the Caber, Hammer, Shot
• St. Albans City Band
• Caledonian Ceilidh Band

Plenty to do for children and adults alike. 

Dance competition (for all ages!)

Highland Games

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Photographs from the Event

Audience in the Great Drawing Room, Rothamsted Manor

This hugely enjoyable concert, given to a capacity audience in the Great Drawing Room, Rothamsted Manor, opened with the Divertimento No. 4 for Wind Trio performed by the Pegasus Wind Trio.  The Goldmark String Quartet followed with a performance of the String Quartet in G, Op. 33 by Haydn.  Alice Gledhill of Pegasus then joined the Goldmark Quartet for two movements from the Mozart Clarinet Quintet, K. 581.

Members of the Goldmark String Quartet and Pegasus Wind Trio

During the second half the talented young musicians entertained the audience with a sequence of delightful musical lollipops from Ennio Morricone, Scott Joplin, Cole Porter and many others.

Pictured right are the combined forces of the Pegasus Wind Trio and the Goldmark String Quartet.  Back row, left to right: Hannah Craib, viola, Alice Gledhill, clarinet, Jae Yoo, second violin, Martha Hardman, oboe and Laura Dixon, first violin.  Front row: Benjamin Stevens, 'cello and Lully Bathurst, Bassoon.

Original Announcement of the Event

Pegasus Wind Trio

Charity Concert in the Great Drawing Room, Rothamsted Manor, Harpenden, 7:30pm, 13th May 2006.

Harpenden Lions are pleased to present a Charity Concert in aid of Keech Cottage Children's Hospice and Grove House in the beautiful Great Drawing Room of Rothamsted Manor, Harpenden. The concert will be given by the talented young musicians of the Pegasus Wind Trio and the Goldmark String Quartet.

The delightful programme includes Mozart's Divertimento No.4 for Wind Trio and the Clarinet Quintet plus Haydn's String Quartet in G, Op.33 No.5.  The second half will consist of a variety of works on a lighter note by George Gershwin, Scott Joplin, Ennio Morricone and others. It promises to be a superb evening with something for everyone.

Beneficiaries

Keech Cottage Children's Hospice supports families from across Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire who are caring for a child or young person diagnosed with a life-limiting condition.

Grove House supports and cares for patients, families and friends affected by cancer or a life-threatening illness in St Albans, Harpenden, Hemel Hempstead and the surrounding areas. Patients with life-threatening illnesses such as Motor Neurone Disease or chronic heart disease and cancer are supported. Cancer patients are helped from the time of diagnosis through to the end-stage of illness.

Tickets

Tickets £12, including a complimentary glass of wine, from Hair Line, 117 Southdown Road, Southdown, Harpenden. Telephone 01582 791699 or 01582 623078. 

Bookings now closed.

E-mail any questions to music@harpenden-lions.co.uk.

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