February 21, 2026

‘HIGHLAND FLING’ MULTIMEDIA CONCERT WITH ORILLIA SILVER BAND SUNDAY MARCH 8 @ 2 P.M., RENE CAISSE THEATRE BRACEBRIDGE

BRACEBRIDGE — Grab your kilt and travel to Scotland with the Orillia Silver Band for their spring ‘Highland Fling.’

The Orillia Silver Band is taking an exciting trip to Scotland and invites the public to come along with its ‘Highland Fling Multimedia Concert.’

The concert is Sunday, March 8 at 2 p.m. at the Rene Caisse Theatre in Bracebridge. Tickets available through the theatre box office https://www.theatremuskoka.ca/

The Highland Fling Concert is concepted as a multimedia event, including wonderful music evocative of the Scottish Highlands, along with simultaneously projected pictures and video clips of the places we’ll visit together on our musical trip.

The concert opens with The Swing “O The Kilt” by composer Montague Ewing, a tune that will get us all dancing Highland favourites right from the start.

The centrepiece of the concert is the towering “Hymn of the Highlands” by composer Philip Sparke. This seven-movement work is a tour-de-force for brass band and is a terrific soundscape of the sights of the Scottish Highlands.

Their tour includes stops at Ardross Castle, The Summer Isles, the forest of Flowerdale, the village of Strathcarron for a traditional sword dance, the village of Lairg Muir, the river Alladale, and the charming village of Dundonnell.

The full work provides opportunities for the entire band to show its musical skills as well as occasions for many of the band’s fine soloists to come to centre-stage.

The concert wraps up with the scintillating “Gaelforce” by Peter Graham, a work that employs three traditional Gaelic tunes to showcase both solo voices and the entire band.