The following are events arranged by the Clan Hay Society or where the Society is participating and welcoming its members.  Please contact the Commissioner or the relevant branch convenor (see ‘Branches’ page) for details of the society’s participation.

Date Event Location Time
31 January 2021 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID Continental Europe Branch – Scottish Clans New Year Lunch Jezus-Eik
Belgium
6 February 2021 Continental Europe Branch – Burns Night Brussels
Belgium
6 April 2021 Continental Europe Branch – Tartan Days Brussels
Belgium
17 April 2021 Service of Commemoration for the fallen of the Battle of Culloden Culloden
Inverness-shire
24 April 2021 Continental Europe Branch – Scottish Ladies Night Brussels
Belgium
6 May 2021 Lecture: Dr Joseph Morrow CBE, QC, FRSE, the Rt Hon the Lord Lyon King of Arms, speaks on The Court of the Lord Lyon.  The Chief, the Earl of Erroll, will be in the chair.  7.00 pm Via Zoom
21 May 2021-
23 May 2021		 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID

Buchan Heritage Festival

 Strichen
Aberdeenshire
22 May 2021-
23 May 2021		 Canada Branch – Victoria Highland Games Victoria
British Columbia
Canada
23 May 2021 Continental Europe Branch – Clans’ Days Barbecue Yvoir
Belgium
5 June 2021 Lecture:  Meet the Bagpipe Maker, with Burgess Hay, of Burgess Bagpipes of Forres.  7.00 pm Viz Zoom
26 June 2021-
27 June 2021		 Canada Branch – Manitoba Highland Gathering Selkirk
Manitoba
Canada
27 June 2021 Canada Branch – Edmonton Scottish Society Highland Gathering Edmonton
Alberta
Canada
10 July 2021-
11 July 2021		 Continental Europe Branch – Fetes Franco Ecossaises Aubigny sur Nere
France
11 July 2021-
18 July 2021		 Canada Branch – Antigonish Highland Games Antigonish
Nova Scotia
Canada
30 July 2021-
31 July 2021		 Canada Branch – Glengarry Highland Games Maxville
Ontario
Canada
1 August 2021-
2 August 2021		 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID Turriff Show Turriff
Aberdeenshire
6 August 2021-
9 August 2021		 CANDELLED DUE TO COVID – ALL EVENTS IN THIS PROGRAMME WILL MOVE TO 2022, BETWEEN FRIDAY 5 AND MONDAY 8 AUGUST.

Clan Hay Gathering, Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire: castle tours, boat tours of the coast, cliff top walks, exhibition, ceilidh, concert and lectures on Jacobites, Smuggling and the History of the Hays of Erroll

 Cruden Bay
Aberdeenshire
6 August 2021 Exhibition opens 10.00 am until 6.00 pm
Minibus tours of the Castles of the Coast, 9.00 am and 1.00 pm
Minibus tours of the Jacobite Coast, 11.00 am and 3.00 pm
Boat tours of the Smugglers’ Coast, 8.00 am and 1.00 pm
Guided walk, Sands of Forvie nature reserve, 12.00 midday
Lecture: Slains and the Hays of Erroll, 6.00 pm
Welcome ceilidh and stovie supper, 8.00 pm		 Cruden Bay
Aberdeenshire
7 August 2021 Aboyne Highland Games

Exhibition opens 10.00 am until 6.00 pm
Minibus tours of the Castles of the Coast, 9.00 am and 1.00 pm
Minibus tours of the Jacobite Coast, 11.00 am and 3.00 pm
Boat tours of the Smugglers’ Coast, 8.00 am and 1.00 pm
Lecture: The Jacobites of the Coast, 6.00 pm
Re-enactment of the Battle of Cruden, 8.00 pm

 Aboyne and
Cruden Bay
Aberdeenshire
8 August 2021 Private visit to Turriff and District Heritage Museum (tbc with trustees), 10.00 am
Clan Hay Lunch: Lunch including archery and falconry demonstrations, 12.00 midday		 Delgatie Castle
Turriff
Aberdeenshire
8 August 2021 Guided tours of the old and new Castles of Slains, 3.00 pm
Guided clifftop walk, Cruden Bay to Boddam, 4.00 pm
Exhibition opens 10.00 am – 6.00 pm
Minibus tours of the Castles of the Coast, 9.00 am and 1.00 pm
Minibus tours of the Jacobite Coast, 11.00 am and 3.00 pm
Boat tours of the Smugglers’ Coast, 8.00 am and 1.00 pm
Lecture: The Smugglers’ Coast, 7.00 pm		 Slains and Cruden Bay
Aberdeenshire
9 August 2021 Exhibition opens 10.00 am – 2.00 pm
Minibus tour of the Castles of the Coast, 9.00 am
Minibus tour of the Jacobite Coast, 11.00 am
Boat tour of the Smugglers’ Coast, 9.00 am
Guided walk, Loch of Strathbeg nature reserve, 12.00 midday
Farewell concert, featuring Scottish music, song, story and poetry, 3.00 pm		 Cruden Bay
Aberdeenshire
13 August 2021-
15 August 2021		 Canada Branch – Fergus Scottish Festival and Highland Games Fergus
Ontario
Canada
27 August 2021 Glenisla Highland Games Glenisla
Angus
28 August 2021 Lonach Gathering Strathdon
Aberdeenshire
28 August 2021 Continental Europe Branch: Homage to the Brave Waterloo
Belgium
4 September 2021 Royal Braemar Gathering Braemar
Aberdeenshire
4 September 2021 Canada Branch – Calgary Highland Games Calgary
Alberta
Canada
4 September 2021-
5 September 2021		 Canada Branch – Canmore Highland Games Canmore
Alberta
Canada
11 September 2021-12 September 2021 Continental Europe Branch: Schots-Weekend Brussels
Belgium
18 September 2021 Lecture: The Hays in Northern Europe: Who, Where and When?
Professor Steve Murdoch, Professor of Early Modern History at
the University of St Andrews.  2.00 pm UK time		 Via Zoom
2 October 2021 Continental Europe Branch – Homage of the Scottish Clans, to the fallen Ypres
Belgium
19 October 2021 Lecture: 250 Years of Sir Walter Scott.  Kirsty Archer-Thompson, Custodian of Abbotsford House, Scott’s magnificent baronial home in the Borders.  6.00 pm UK time Via Zoom
23 October 2021 Continental Europe Branch – Ball of the Clans Braine l’Alleud
Belgium
13 November 2021 Continental Europe Branch – Clans Family Night Eghezee
Belgium
4 December 2021 Continental Europe Branch – St Andrew’s Day  celebration Antwerp
Belgium
 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

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