Hawick Reivers Festival 2025

** Unfortunately due to health and safety concerns, the high winds forced the Reivers Committee to abandon the rest of the afternoons events so unfortunately no re-enactments footage **

Hawick Reivers Festival 29-03-25
Step back in time to the mid sixteenth century when the Borderlands were an area of constant feuding – when loyalties were to kinship rather than king and country and when “Reiving” was a means of survival.
Through music, drama and re-enactments experience what life was really like for the men and women in the Border Marches.
Hawick Reivers Festival aims to help visitors and townsfolk alike Experience, Explore and will endeavour to Explain day to day life in this violent and turbulent period of our history.
Fiercely loyal and independent, hard-working and prepared to fight for what they believed in these men and women of the 1500’s did much to shape the character of the modern day Borderers.

Expect a costumed Procession on the Saturday morning, a series of entertainments, sports, living history displays and lectures throughout the day and a market, and the Hot Trod torchlit procession on the Saturday evening followed by fireworks at Wilton Lodge Park. Talks and further activities follow on the Sunday.