borderevents March April 2020 magazine

Hawick Reivers Festival
Friday 27 th -
Sunday 29 th March
Celebrating a turbulent past and a culture born of
FIRE AND STEEL!
Don’t miss this exciting festival for the Borders
FRIDAY 27 TH
“Meet the Ghosts of Liddesdale and
Teviotdale” Ghost Walks
6.45 pm and the second at 8 pm – Start from
Vennel by Textile Tower House
Come and meet the Ghosts of Hawick past
and hear the grizzly and gory stories of our
ancestors!
Tickets £4 each or £10 for family of 4 from
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SOLD OUT!
Reivers Concert with McKerron, Brechin and
O’hEadhra
8pm - in Evergreen Hall (Doors open 7.30pm)
Fiery tunes and beautiful songs from three of
Scotland’s finest musicians
Tickets £15 from www.borderevents.com or
01750 725480
SATURDAY 28 TH
11.30 - Drumlanrig School Hall - Drumlanrig
School will be performing sketches based on
famous, or rather infamous, Border Reivers
characters. including Kinmont Willie
12.30 St Mary’s Church - Stirches school
present “ Lord Maxwell and the Battle of Dryfe
Sands “
Doors Open Day - St Mary’s Church
11am to 2pm - take the opportunity to have
a look round Hawick’s oldest church on its
historic site
Heritage Hub
11.30 am “ Descended from a Reiver?” by
Lorna Kinnaird and Wendy Tait
Lorna and Wendy will look at how to approach
trying to prove that you are descended from a
Border Reiver.
Tickets £3 from www. borderevents.com or
01750 725480
16th Century Market
10.30am till 3pm, Drumlanrig Square and
Kirkwynd
Featuring a large range of local arts, crafts and
food stalls plus family history stalls
Reivers Encampment : 10.30am till 3pm, Moat
Park
Reivers Procession
10.45 till 11am
Procession will assemble in the Civic Space
and proceed via Silver St. to Howegate and
Drumlanrig Square for the opening ceremony.
Thereafter via Drumlanrig School to Moat Park
Schools performances and events
11.30 onwards - Schools’ Games : Moat Park or
Drumlanrig School (weather dependent)
20
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Archaeological Society Lecture
1pm ‘There’s blood in the war saddle’ by John
Watson
John will speak about his book, the theme
of which is based on how the people of the
borders must have suffered and how they
survived and died at a time in our history when
life meant less than it does today No tickets
required - donations at door
Two Rivers Theatre Group present “The
Broken Band”
2.30pm Cornucopia Room
Its 10th September, 1513 ; the day after the
battle of Flodden . Four survivors are brought
together by chance in a ruined sheiling close to
the border. But instead of uniting in the face of
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