The lake was alive with the sound of music this past weekend.
The lake was Lafarge in Coquitlam and the music was the skirl of bagpipes and the beat of bodhrans as ScotFestBC alighted in Town Centre Park Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
As well as Celtic music concerts on June 16, the event featured competitive piping, drumming and dancing along with the popular heavy events, where burly men and women toss cumbersome objects like the caber, a burlap sack filled with straw and the braemar stone as far or as high as they can.
There were also workshops on Celtic culture, like the history of the fiddle, whiskey distilling and the life and times of Scottish poet Robert Burns.
The event is organized annually by the United Scottish Cultural Society that brings together various Gaelic groups like the Scottish Cultural Centre Society, the B.C. Highland Dancing Association, the British Columbia Pipers’ Association and the Gaelic Society of Vancouver.
