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29 10, 2013

Reel-Time Zone Difference – Roddy the Piper and Visit Scotland at IMEX

By Ross MacFarlane|October 29th, 2013|conferences|0 Comments

Roddy left the sunny shores of Scotland for the bright lights of Las Vegas last week. Travelling with Visit Scotland to the IMEX American Convention Roddy helped share Scotland’s culture and tradition with the USA. IMEX is the largest conference for the MICE industry (meetings, incentives, conferences and events) representing 148 countries and 2,400 hosted buyers. Visit Scotland travelled to Las Vegas to showcase Scotland’s tourism industry; it was a great opportunity to display Scotland’s potential to representatives from around the world. Demonstrating Scotland’s cultural heritage Roddy led a Whisky Tasting session as [...]

29 10, 2013

Deal at Dundas Castle: Scottish Entertainment Event

By Ross MacFarlane|October 29th, 2013|events|0 Comments

On Wednesday night Roddy attended the signing of a £300m deal by financiers at Dundas Castle. Amid the Champagne and Canapés Reel Time were on hand providing the best of Scottish entertainment. Reel Time put on a Full Scottish Show including highly skilled drummers, pipers and clarsach players. During the celebrations two mini pipe bands drummed the beat to mark the momentous occasion. Alongside the vibrant music several Highland Dancers took to the floor to impress the guests in the traditional highland attire. Before food was served Roddy addressed the haggis using Rabbie Burns’ ‘Address to a Haggis.’ Knife in hand, the traditional poem was recited by [...]

16 07, 2013

Arran Whisky and folk festival 2013

By Ross MacFarlane|July 16th, 2013|events|0 Comments

The Scraggly cats playing at the Arran Folk Festival The Reel Time Ceilidh Band - Scraggly Cats were over in Arran last weekend for the Whisky and folk festival. This tied in nicely with the Arran Distillerys 18th birthday party, and what fun was had! The band played in the distillery grounds in the afternoon for the revellers, before heading off to the Lochranza village hall for a cherished moment in any ceilidh bands career, the Scottish island ceilidh! The band played an afternoon set of rocking ceilidh music and pop [...]

29 05, 2013

Reel Time Whisky tasting

By Ross MacFarlane|May 29th, 2013|bars, conferences, events|0 Comments

Reel Time Events is a whisky tasting company based in Edinburgh. We were asked to put on a Whisky tasting for a health and safety conference dinner. We arrived at the Hilton in Glasgow while the guests were enjoying their dinner. Setting up the Whisky stations in a room adjacent to the dining guests. The guests enjoyed a short presentation by Whisky writer and poet, Robin Laing, who explained the nosing technique and why Whisky was good for their health and safety! We had 3 different tasting stations set up, with the three experts talking [...]

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 [...]