ScotFestBC
The 128th British Columbia Highland GamesÂ
June 20 - 21 | 2025 | Town Centre Park | Coquitlam
Friday June 20
We start things off on Friday with our free "Pipes in the Park" on the Main Stage.Â
Or come earlier (5:00 pm) and catch the best professional pipers in BC competing in the "big music". It's Piobaireachd, (pee-brock) on the Heritage Stage starting at 5:00 pm. In the Whisky tent, the always popular, always sold-out "Whisky & Oysters' with our friends from Victoria's Macaloney Distillery.
And we wrap up Friday night with a great big kitchen party in the Kitchen Party Tent with MC Rod MacBeth and lots of live Celtic music.
Saturday June 21
On Saturday, it's the 128th British Columbia Highland Games with piping, drumming & pipe bands competitions, highland dancing, the REMAX Scottish heavy events, massed pipe bands, whisky school, cultural workshops, a multicultural stage, kids activities and chances to try pipes, drumming, dancing or even caber tossing,. There'll be food and merchandise vendors too. And of course, Live Celtic Music in the Kitchen Party Tent with Rod all day and into the evening.Â
It's a whole day of entertainment for the whole family. Easily accessible via Skytrain and easy to get around the park.
Come to the games at the end of the train
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A QUICK GUIDE TO THE GAMES
Pipes, Drums & Bands
The Scottish pipe band, the most common form of pipe band, consists of a section of pipers, a section of side drummers known as a drum corps, several tenor drummers and a single bass drummer. Watch some of BC's best pipe & drum bands compete, along with solo pipers. Administered by the British Columbia Pipers’ Association.
RE/MAX Heavy Events
Heavy Events are among the oldest contested sports in the world encompassing a series of nine feats of strength events. Many of the events are derived from the Scottish military weapons of war, while others came directly from every day life. Events include Stone Putt, Weights for Distance Throws, Hammer, Weight for Height/Weight over Bar, Sheaf Toss and Caber Toss.
Highland Dance
Highland dance is a style of competitive solo dancing developed in the Scottish Highlands in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is often performed to the accompaniment of Highland bagpipe music and is now seen at nearly every modern-day Highland games event.
Open Pìobaireachd Competition
The highest level of piping competition, the Pìobaireachd competition takes place the night before the BC Highland Games officially opens. Some of the best pro players from the Pacific Northwest are competing in this classical form of highland bagpipe "big" music.
Whisky School & Beer Garden
Interested in learning the difference between a malt and a blend; a ten, 14 or 18-year old whisky? At the 2021 Games, we will be offering four separate whisky sessions for the beginner to the connoisseur, hosted by whisky experts and surrounded by the sights & sounds of an authentic Scottish Highland games. Our beer garden offers a great selection of local craft brews.
. . . and a whole lot more!
ScotsFestBC and the British Columbia Highland Games is about more more than competitions. A whole festival takes place throughout the park. Look for stock dog demonstrations, pipe bands performances, live music, vendors, cultural talks, haggis-hunting, and more, all taking place in our beautiful home at Lafarge Lake Park.
We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Province of British Columbia.
ScotFestBC acknowledges that our events take place on the traditional territory of the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) First Nation.