Antigonish Highland Games

Thank you to all who joined us for the volunteer party today! To those who couldn't make it, we appreciate your incredible hard work and hope you can join us next year :)

Special thanks to Jordi and Luke for the beautiful tunes all afternoon, and especially to Boston Pizza Antigonish for the delicious meal!

Congratulations to the three new World Highland Dancing Champions for 2026! 2 champion are from Canada. A huge shout out to Marielle Lesperance on winning her 10th World Championship!

Juvenile World Champion - Sadie Love, Alberta

Junior World Champion - Connie Urquhart, Scone

Adult WorldChampion - Marielle Lespérance, Nova Scotia

Exceptional work! You've made Canada proud!!!

Congrats to all the dancers at Cowal Highland Gathering - with a special shout out to FOUR (!) Nova Scotia dancers who are through to the World Adult Championships! 👏👏👏 incredible work everyone, congratulations to Antigonish’s own Brooke Hayne, Sarah Arsenault, Olivia Burke, and Marielle Lesperance, go show the world what Nova Scotia Dancers are made of!!!

These fine folks are hard at work, and all free of charge! Thank you for all you do to sustain Highland culture!

Free piping and drumming lessons are back and we are excited to get started. We will be teaching our lessons in Antigonish, Sherbrooke and Guysborough.🎶🥁🎼🎵.

Well folks the 161st Antigonish Highland Games are in the books, and we are already busy planning the 162nd edition. Before we do, we want to give one last thanks to all of the incredible sponsors that help make this event succeed each year.

The 161st was one of our best yet, and we truly couldn't do it each year without the support of so many amazing local sponsors, and of course the support of all levels of government.

We are fortunate to share this great place we call home with you all, and we cant thank you enough!!!

Congratulations everyone! This is an incredible accomplishment!!!

Please note the venue change for the start of the Festival of the Tartans! Good luck to everyone!

Please share this info with all who you think will be interested that our new rain venue is Glasgow Square Theatre. It was a difficult call to move our Opening Ceremonies, Free Concert and Crowning of the Skye Queen indoors but after checking with two very reliable and detailed weather sources we made the call. As we all know Mother Nature can and does change her mind but we made this decision in the interests and safety of all involved, including the audience based on the information we received and researched. Please join us for what provmises to be a great evening of friendship, music, talent, fun and community spirit in a beautiful theatre setting! Everyone is welcome. Federation for Scottish Culture in Nova Scotia St. Andrews Society of Pictou County Ship Hector Passenger Descendants Antigonish Highland Society Antigonish Highland Games Pictou County Highland Dance Association Town of New Glasgow Glasgow Square Theatre Explore Pictou County

It should be a perfect weekend, the weather looks great and the lineup even better! Go cheer on some of your hometown favourites!!!

Our dear friends up the shore are ready for an incredible event next weekend, best of luck to everyone!!!