2021 Scottish Highland Games Announcing Opening

[California Highlander]

I think there is a chance that the big Pleasanton Scottish Highland Games may happen. Fingers crossed.

If Grandfather Mountain will indeed happen I might make plans to fly back there and attend.

When my mother lived near Johnson City I would visit her and the Games annually.

She moved back to West Virginia almost 30 years ago, and I've not been to those Games since.

I think nearly all the 2021 Games here in California have been cancelled already, so Grandfather Mountain would probably be my only Games this year.

[SF Jeff]

I think there is a chance that the big Pleasanton Scottish Highland Games may happen. Fingers crossed.

Pleasanton is in a "wait and see" mode for now. Woodland is cancelled for this year. Monterey is selling tickets on their website. Those are the big three in Nor Cal. If it really looks like Monterey will happen then I will drive down for it.

[OC Richard]

Pleasanton is in a "wait and see" mode for now...If it really looks like Monterey will happen then I will drive down for it.

It's strange I know, but I've been going to California Highland Games since the mid-1970s and I've never been to Monterey.

Back in the 1970s and 1980s the SoCal bands did a Big Three of Santa Monica/Long Beach, San Diego, and Santa Rosa.

Then Queen Mary, Las Vegas, and Seaside were added.

But the bands I've been in have given Woodland and Monterey a pass, even though they would sometimes travel to Arizona.

When I've gone to Woodland it's been on my own, and it was interesting how many bands weren't there. I can't understand why most SoCal bands avoid it, because it's a big Games.

Monterey sounds great if it happens! Though there is a Stranger Things convention in Los Angeles that same weekend...