Red Hot Highland Fling

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The Red Hot Highland Fling, founded in 2008, is a free Hogmanay (New Year's Eve) concert, held annually in Northern Meeting Park Arena Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. Organised by the Highland Council,[1] the event is sponsored by the Inverness Common Good Fund[2] and is the climax of the Inverness Winter Festival.

Northern Meeting Park Arena[edit]

Northern Meeting Park Arena is a combination of the Highland Council HQ Car Park (where the concert takes place) and the world's oldest Highland Games stadium, Northern Meeting Park, which is located next door and houses the fireworks display to signal the arrival of the New Year at midnight.

Event format[edit]

After experimenting with a 3, 4 and 5 band model between 2008 and 2012; the Red Hot Highland Fling moved to a 3 band model with effect in 2013. The gates open at 20:00 and the show starts at 20:30. The show ends at 00.30 after the final band returns for a post Fireworks Display encore.

The event normally attracts between 9000 - 11,000, but in 2019 the show attracted a capacity crowd of 15,000 [3] making it the biggest Hogmanay concert staged in Scotland. The Edinburgh Hogmanay concert in the Gardens has a capacity of 10,000.[4]

  • 2008 Shutter, Low Tide Revelry, Single Malt System, The Magic Numbers & Albanach[5]
  • 2009 Show cancelled due to snow blizzard.[6] The bands that [7] were due to appear all appeared the following year[8]
  • 2010 Blazin Fiddles, The Red Hot Chilli Pipers and Peatbog Fairies[9][10]
  • 2011 Hoodja, Bags of Rock, Wolfstone and Skerryvore[11][12][13]
  • 2012 Whisky River Band, The Treacherous Orchestra, Big Country and Skerryvore[14]
  • 2013 Dorec - a - Belle, The Red Hot Chilli Pipers and Skerryvore[15]
  • 2014 Manran, The Julie Fowlis Band and The Red Hot Chilli Pipers[16][17]
  • 2015 Breabach, Capercaille and Skerryvore[18]
  • 2016 The Elephant Sessions, Scooty and the Skyhooks and Skerryvore[19]
  • 2017 Ho-Ro, Skipinnish and Skerryvore[20]
  • 2018 Calum Mackenzie Jones & The Trad Project, Blazin Fiddles & Tide Lines[21][22]
  • 2019 Dorec-a-Belle, Skipinnish and Torridon[23]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Council, The Highland. "The Highland Council - Tel: 01349 886606". Highland.gov.uk. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  2. ^ Butlin, Heather. "Inverness Common Good Fund". Highland.gov.uk. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  3. ^ Val Sweeney (2 January 2020). "Capacity crowd marks New Year at Inverness party". inverness-courier.co.uk.
  4. ^ "Franz Ferdinand to headline Edinburgh's Hogmanay 2019!". edinburghshogmanay.com. 31 August 2019.
  5. ^ "Line-up unveiled for Inverness Hogmanay Party". Highland.gov.uk. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  6. ^ "City's Hogmanay event cancelled". News.bbc.co.uk. 1 January 2010. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  7. ^ "The Guide: Festive things to do". News.bbc.co.uk. 17 December 2009. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  8. ^ "Inverness Hogmanay Party Line Up Confirmed". Highland.gov.uk. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  9. ^ "Inverness Hogmanay Party: The Red Hot Highland Fling - 31 December 2010". Embrace Scotland. 4 December 2010. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  10. ^ "Positive start". Inverness-courier.co.uk. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  11. ^ "Line up for Red Hot Highland Fling revealed". Highland.gov.uk. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  12. ^ "Hello 2012: Hogmanay around Scotland". Scotsman.com. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  13. ^ "Inverness gets ready to welcome the crowds to a Red Hot Highland Fling". Johnogroat-journal.co.uk. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  14. ^ Livingstone, Cheryl (28 December 2012). "Over 10,000 revellers expected to join in Highland capital celebrations". The Press and Journal. Archived from the original on 20 August 2023. Retrieved 21 August 2023 – via PressReader.
  15. ^ "Inverness Hogmanay Party". Luxuryinvernesshotel.org.uk. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  16. ^ "Visit Scotland's winter festivals - and more". Openroadscotland.com. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  17. ^ "Red Hot Highland Fling - EventScotland". Eventscotland.org. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  18. ^ "Bumper crowd expected at Inverness Hogmanay Red Hot Highland Fling". Highland-news.co.uk. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  19. ^ "Red Hot Highland Fling, Inverness | Hogmanay.net. Home of Hogmanay 2018 - 2019". Hogmanay.net. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  20. ^ Lemon, Chris (16 September 2017). "Full Line-up for Red Hot Highland Fling 2017/18". Invernessgigs.co.uk. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  21. ^ MacLennan, Chris. "Thousands expected to flock to Inverness for Hogmanay celebrations". Pressandjournal.co.uk. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  22. ^ Dixon, Rachel (15 December 2018). "Six of the best UK New Year's Eve parties". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  23. ^ Henderson, Michelle (2 January 2020). "Swimmers' bracing start to 2020". The Press and Journal. Archived from the original on 20 August 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2023 – via PressReader.
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