🍁Radford Highlanders Festival @ Radford University

Radford University23 Berkley Williams DriveRadford VA 24141(540) 831-6255
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The Radford Highlanders Festival features heavyweight games, Scots-Irish-Appalachian music, massed pipe and drum band performance, Scottish clan march, sheep-herding demonstrations, drumming circle, booths by more than 60 craft and food vendors, children’s activities and much more. Admission is free and the public is welcome. The festival is a joint partnership with the City of Radford and Radford University.

The Radford Highlanders Festival has grown into one of the most popular tourist destinations in the region.

The festival began in the mid-1990s with an approximate crowd of 3,000. Over the past 20 years, the festival has more than tripled in size, and now attracts an estimated crowd of 10,000 people. Whether a family’s background is of Scots-Irish origin or of other descent, the day always brings with it an air of excitement and anticipation. There is no place more beautiful than Southwest Virginia in autumn and the Blue Ridge Mountains provide a beautiful back-drop for the fall festival.

• 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  • Heavyweight games
  • Food and craft vendors
  • Children's activities
  • Sheepherding
• 9 – 9:20 a.m. - Radford University Highlanders Pipes and Drums
• 9:30 – 9:50 a.m. - Virginia Highlands Pipes and Drums
• 10:50 – 11:10 a.m. - Appalachian Highlanders Pipes and Drums
• Noon - Massed Band Performance and Clan March

Highlander Stage on Moffett Lawn

• 10 – 10:45 a.m. - House of Hamill
• 11:15 a.m. - Noon- Syr
• 12:30 – 1:05 p.m. - House of Hamill
• 1:10 – 1:30 p.m. - Shenandoah Valley Pipe Band
• 1:40 – 2:15 p.m. - Syr
• 2:30 – 3:15 p.m. - House of Hamill
• 3:30 – 4 :15 p.m. - Syr

Tartan Stage at the Heth Clocks

• 10:50 a.m - Thistle and Rose Highland Dancers – Claire Pollit
• 11 a.m. - Panjammers Steel Drum Orchestra
• 12:30 p.m. - Thistle and Rose Highland Dancers – Claire Pollit
• 12:45- 1 :30 p.m. - Kinnfolk
• 1:35 p.m. - Thistle and Rose Highland Dancers – Claire Pollit
• 1:45 – 2:30 p.m. - Kinnfolk

Who

Everyone of all ages. 

Cost

FREE to attend

How

Just show up.

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