*WORLD EXCLUSIVE* Choreographed dance... To Cowal, With Love

WORLD EXCLUSIVE We are proud to bring you a specially choreographed dance produced for Cowal’s Virtual Gathering by Rachel McLagan. The dance features eight dancers from Scotland, Canada and USA. Each is either the overall winner or first runner up in the 2018 and 2019 Juvenile, Junior and Adult World Highland Dancing Championship.

Dancers are: Marielle Lesperance from Nova Scotia, Canada. Marielle is a seven-time World Highland Dancing Champion including 2018 and 2019 World Adult Highland Dancing Champion; Rebecca Thow, formerly Alberta, Canada and now Belhelvie, Scotland. Rebecca is the 2017 Adult World Highland Dancing Champion and 2018 and 2019 first runner-up; Erin Blair, California, USA is a four-time World Highland Dancing Champion and 2018 first runner-up; Michelle Gordon, from Huntly, Scotland is 2018 Junior World Highland Dancing Champion and 2019 Adult World Highland Dancing Championship finalist; Beret Dernbach from California, USA is 2018 Juvenile World Highland Dancing Champion and 2019 Junior World Highland Dancing Champion; Elise Berrevoets, British Columbia, Canada is 2019 Junior World Highland Dancing Championship first runner-up; Rosey Watt, from MacDuff, Scotland is 2018 Juvenile World Championship second runner-up and 2019 Junior World Highland Dancing Champion and Robyn McMillan from Forth, Scotland is 2018 and 2019 Juvenile World Highland Dancing Championship first runner-up.

We are hugely grateful to choreographer Rachel McLagan, formerly Blairgowrie, now Glasgow, who is the 2002 Junior World Highland Dancing Champion and placed in the top five of the Juvenile, Junior and Adult World Highland Dancing Championships on another six occasions. She is an RSOBHD International Adjudicator and has adjudicated in the Scottish National, Scottish Open and World Championship events at the 2014 Cowal Highland Gathering. Rachel is a director of Flings & Things Highland Dance Group and has choreographed and directed performaces for events such as New York Tartan Week, Beijing International Tourism Festival, RBS Six Nations at Murrayfield, Glasgow 2018 European Championship opening celebrations, the RSOBHD 60th Anniversary concert and the Basel Tattoo in Switzerland. They will be dancing to ‘Take My Hand’ by Skerryvore from their 2018 album ‘Evo’. We’d like to say a huge thank you to Skerryvore for the use of their song.