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Published Date: 29 June 2009
By Brian Ferguson
A FULL preview of the spectacular pageant billed as a centrepiece of Scotland's Homecoming celebrations is to be held the night before the gala event at Edinburgh Castle.
Thousands of members of the public are being offered the chance to attend a preview of the historical epic before it is played out on the castle esplanade in front of 8,000 clan members on Saturday, 25 July.

A full dress rehearsal of Aisling's Children: Tales of the Homecoming, the expected highlight of a two-day clan gathering in the city, featuring its full 180-strong cast, will be staged at the same arena.

The Gathering, which will be mainly held in the capital's Holyrood Park, is expected to attract crowds of more than 40,000 over its two days.

It will climax with a spectacular parade of clan members up the Royal Mile before they take their seats for the Saturday night performance of the pageant.

The show is being masterminded by veteran theatre director Mark Murphy and award-winning film composer Jim Sutherland.

Tickets for the preview of the show go on sale today from The Hub box office in the Royal Mile.





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Lianachan,

Highlands 29/06/2009 09:01:35
"in front of 8,000 clan members" - the very society structure that was destroyed from Edinburgh, and London, by government policy. Got to love the irony.
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Lochie,

Highlands 04/07/2009 16:29:17
Despite reports to the contrary, the real Homecoming Highland Games is not taking place at the event being staged by the aristocratic poseurs in Edinburgh.

Diaspora from all over the world are heading to the Highland Capital Inverness a week earlier for a historic event which thanks to the central belt biased Scottish media will pass by largely unnoticed.

The Masters World Championships - the World's biggest Highland Games event featuring 82 Heavies representing Diaspora from 10 countries is being held at the Inverness Highland Games on July 18th and 19th.

The Homecoming Scotland Quango should be ashamed for ignoring almost 200 years of tradition and not giving any of the real Highland Games taking place in Scotland in the summer of 2009 a single penny in grants.

Homecoming 2009 was supposed to be about those who have left our shores not allowing Scotland's lowland aristocrats and media conscious politicans to strut around pretending to be Highlanders.


 

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