The Mòd
Heavyweight Gaelic music festival (Oct)
This top-flight music festival – officially the Royal National Mòd – attracts hundreds of talented competitors who don formal dress to perform Gaelic song and music.
At stake are gold medals in various categories: solo, duets, choirs and a range of unusual traditional instruments: bagpipes, clarsachs (small harps), fiddles, accordions and melodeons.
The location varies each year.