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28 03, 2013

Reel Time Events and Visit Britain entertain the Travel Trade.

By Ross MacFarlane|March 28th, 2013|events|0 Comments

The Reel Time team were recruited by Visit Britain to entertain 500 international travel trade guests. With all the exciting events coming to Scotland in 2014, there is a real push to market Scotland to international buyers; with the Ryder Cup, commonwealth games and a year of Homecoming The event was hosted at Wembley Stadium and was Visit Britains biggest annual event for business to business buyers. Reel Time Events conducted the whisky tasting overlooking the famous Wembley pitch. Guests enjoyed a selection of fine malt Whisky, hosted by Ambassador John McCheyne. Roddythepiper [...]

11 02, 2013

Dundas Birthday Bash – Ceilidh at the Castle

By Ross MacFarlane|February 11th, 2013|events|0 Comments

A fantastic weekend of birthday celebrations was had by all at Dundas Castle over the weekend with entertainments supplied by the one and only Reel-Time Events! After an impressive Scottish feast in the Stag Chamber the guests were led into the Grand Hall to be met by 2 of Reel-Times incredible Highland dancers. Their performance was accompanied by Pipe Major Greig Canning, one of our fine championship pipers, and the party guests treated to a traditional and energetic series of reels and flings. If you are unfamiliar with this style of dancing then [...]

21 11, 2012

Cocktail production at the Signet Library

By Ross MacFarlane|November 21st, 2012|bars|0 Comments

The Reel Time Bars team were called in on Friday night to provide a specialist cocktail production service at a gala dinner at Edinburgh’s Signet Library. The event organiser from the law firm brief was to create a choice menu of 10 cocktails to tickle the guest’s tipples. They wanted this to feel like a style bar. We designed our cocktail list based around three main styles of cocktail – shaken, built and stirred - all of which were guaranteed to truly wow the guests! We also wanted to give the guests a [...]

13 07, 2012

Moet Highland games

By Ross MacFarlane|July 13th, 2012|conferences|0 Comments

It was a pleasure to work this week with the board of directors from Moet Hennessey, who were up in Edinburgh for a conference. They were looking for some teambuilding challenges to take place the day before the conference started. We were asked to source them a fantastic venue for the highland games event to take place. VIP coach transfers from the Balmoral Hotel to Marriott Dalmahoy, as well as a fun filled afternoon of activities to compete in to win prizes. They were interested in the Scottish theme, and so highland games [...]

10 06, 2012

Pixar BRAVE launch for Press, Edinburgh June 2012

By Ross MacFarlane|June 10th, 2012|events|0 Comments

The Reel Time Band were requested to come and help put some Disney PIXAR Magic into the international press junket for the upcoming BRAVE movie all about Scotland. We helped run the full programme of evening entertainment for the internationally invited VIP guests for our client, Partisan Events, who was running the event production of the entire 3 days of events. Reel Time Events provided everything they needed to make their Prestonfield gala dinner a fantastic event full of music and dance. Our piper for the night, Lorne MacDougall, who is 2 times [...]

10 04, 2012

Bagpiper in Croatia: International Filming

By Ross MacFarlane|April 10th, 2012|events, Uncategorised|0 Comments

Back from an interesting international bagpiping assignment. Was taken out to Dubrovnik, Croatia to do a bit of filming for US TV network ABC, who were shooting their new reality TV show. We are bound by Confidentiality agreement.. So better not say too much! Basically the idea was that the contestants on the show had to compete in highland games activities. I was asked to pipe them on to the field, and then introduce the activities, caber tossing, archery and maide leisg. It was a great day of filming, with a cast of [...]

5 04, 2012

International Burns night Kiev: Reel Time Band

By Ross MacFarlane|April 5th, 2012|events|0 Comments

It was a pleasure to take the Reel Time Band over to Kiev at the end of March, for our last Burns night of 2012. After playing Stirling and Edinburgh Castles in January, it was great to have a full castle constructed as the stage. Burns night in Kiev is like no other you have seen. Organised by The Lions Club with a mix of Scottish music and Ukrainian pop stars, at a glitzy society event. Raising money for charity is the main idea, with auctions and raffles raising more than $120000 for [...]

14 03, 2012

Cocktail Creation at the Castle

By Ross MacFarlane|March 14th, 2012|bars|0 Comments

March 2012: We were approached by an international media group to provide cocktail production at Scotlands most famous Landmark, Edinburgh Castle. The company were relaunching their brand and asked us to design and serve cocktails that fitted with their brands new colour scheme. ‘We understand that guests at these events want not only great tasting cocktails, but an element of theatre whilst their drinks are prepared’ said Mark Gilligan, Bar Manager. ‘We staffed this with 4 of Edinburgh’s leading bar tenders who were creating the cocktails from our bespoke mobile bar units.’ Cocktails [...]

5 12, 2011

Mobile Event Bar Edinburgh You know when you’ve been tangoed

By Ross MacFarlane|December 5th, 2011|bars|0 Comments

Saturday we were at the Dance Base in Edinburgh providing a mobile event bar service for the Tango Community. The bar had a great selection of wines as well as Mojito's , mainline spirits and ice cold beers. Everyone really enjoyed themselves and it was great to see a close knit dance community coming together to share their passion for Tango . Really lovely people and some great dance moves!

25 11, 2011

Reel Time Ceilidh Band: New samples

By Ross MacFarlane|November 25th, 2011|events, Uncategorised|0 Comments

After performing together for the last 6 years around the corporate and wedding scene, the Reel Time Ceilidh Band have just recorded the start of their new Album. The band is looking to give guests a unique contemporary funky twist on Scottish ceilidh music. We have found that guests enjoy dancing to our style which may inject a disco riff, or a funk hook along with our Scottish sound. To hear these eagerly awaited samples, have a listen on the site http://bit.ly/nkFxMA If you want the band to come and play at your [...]