The Pitlochry Autumn Festival Programme

Pitlochry Autumn Festival Programme of Events - This year we have arranged a number of events to run during the Enchanted Forest. Please down load your PDF document of events for the days of your visit.

The winner of the Big Prize Treasure Hunt was Laura Douglas of Cupar in Fife - (2 nights stay for a family of 4 at the Acarsaid Hotel, Pitlochry - plus dinner at Victoria's Restaurant one night and at the Fern Cottage Restaurant the other night.) Thank you to all of you who returned the Treasure Hunt forms. Many of you commented on what good fun it had been. We intend to repeat it again next year. Watch this space for details.

The 2007 Pitlochry Autumn Festival Brochure contained details of the events we are organising along with information on Pitlochry and Highland Perthshire, from Hotels, Guest Houses, Bed and Breakfasts, to Self Catering accommodation, shops, restaurants and palaces to visit. We will post our 2008 brochure on the web site as soon as it is ready (we anticpate this being ready for June 2008).

So what did we do? The opening night we have 15 events busking up and down the length of Pitlochry's main street, Atholl Road. Each night after the main night we had:-

1. Halloween Tent full of Enchanted Forest posters produced by the children of Pitlochry High School.

2. Our Magical Yurt 5.30pm to 8.30pmStory Teller's Yurt - (Yurt, means a round Mongolian Tent with no centre poles). Storytelling began in earnest around the fire when the nights are cold and winter has wrapped her veil around the earth. In Celtic times, this time of year was called Samhain, Sa’wen, summers end or Celtic New Year.

Children were invited to come and sit in the magical yurt and listen to the winter goddess, the Cailleach Bheur, tell stories, sing songs of enchantment and magic trees and animals.

“Come and be enchanted for a spell with tales and songs of other worlds told by storyteller and celtic harpist Claire Hewitt, before beginning your own journey of enchantment through the forest”. – suitable for 5 years to 12 year olds.

3. Big Prize Treasure Hunt - Congratulations to Laura Douglas from Cupar, Fife who has won (2 nights stay for a family of 4 at the Acarsaid Hotel, Pitlochry - plus dinner at Victoria's Restaurant one night and at the Fern Cottage Restaurant the other night.) Small pumpkins were hidden shops, restaurants and attractions that are participating in the Pitlochry Autumn Festival. Participants had to go round find the pumkin and collect the different letters of the alaphabet. Then once all the letters were collected they had to make a short sentance. Many many people reported what good fun this all was.

4. Musicians will be busking at a number of locations along the length of Atholl Road. Two sets of musicians palyed every night. They were very successful in making sure the town was not dead when all the visitors arrived in Pitlochry for the Enchanted Forest!

5. Ghost Tours. Were extremely popular, with one 11 year having gone round several times she enjoyed them so much.

For year round events in the Pitlochry and Highland Perthshire region you can go to www.hpwhatson.net