Events for 2021:
Events may be rescheduled or cancelled due to Covid restrictions. If you are intending to travel for an event, please check with the event organisers before making your plans.

• 1 July - 30 September: UNDER CANVAS 3-month festival of live music performance outdoors at Eden Court Theatre in Inverness. Family-friendly festival with food and drink.
• 7 August: Inverness Farmers Market - city centre
• 7 August: Nairn Show with livestock exhibitions, craft fair, food stalls and amusements. CANCELLED
• 21 August: Nairn Highland Games CANCELLED
• 21 August tbc: Nairn Half Marathon
• 22 August: Etape Loch Ness cycle race (postponed from April 2021)
• late August : Northern Meeting Piping Competition at Eden Court CANCELLED
• 28 August: Glenurquhart Highland Games at Drumnadrochit, Loch Ness CANCELLED
• 28 August: Woodzstock family friendly music festival on the Black Isle at Woodside of Drumnamerg (postponed from June)
• late August - early September: Doors Open Days in Inverness and area (More info)
• 4 September: The Gathering is a music festival in Inverness at the Northern Meeting Park featuring Wolfstone, Peatbog Faeries, Red Hot Chilli Pipers, Trail West, Torridon and more. (Event re-scheduled from late May)
• 4 September: Inverness Farmers Market - city centre
• 4 - 12 September: Nairn Book & Arts Festival
• 25 September - 15 October: Highland Archaeology Festival - for this year there is a programme of online talks and some guided walks
• 30 September - early October: NessBookFest - Inverness book festival
• 2 October: Inverness Farmers Market - city centre
• 3 October: Loch Ness Marathon plus 5K and 10K River Ness fun runs.
• 8 - 16 October: Gaelic Royal National Mod. Postponed from 2020.
• 9 October: World Porridge Making Championship at Carrbridge
• tbc late October: Halloween on Ness Islands
• 3 - 8 November: Spirit of Speyside whisky festival (distilleries around Moray & Speyside)
• tbc 5 November: Civic Bonfire and Fireworks Display, Bught Park, Inverness
• 6 November: Inverness Farmers Market - city centre
• 19 - 21 November: Exclusively Highlands Craft Market at Wildwoodz near Inverness
• 3 - 5 December: Exclusively Highlands Craft Market at Wildwoodz near Inverness
• 4 December: Inverness Farmers Market - city centre
• tbc early December: Winter Wonderland at Whin Park, Inverness
• tbc 31 December 2021: Red Hot Highland Fling Hogmanay party, Northern Meeting Park, Inverness

Events for 2022
Some dates have already been fixed for next year:

• 13 March 2022: Inverness Half Marathon and 5K
• 16 April: Annual Commemoration Service at Culloden Battlefield
• 24 April 2022: Etape Loch Ness cycle race
• 20 - 22 May 2022: The LochNess360 Challenge - 3 marathons, an ultra marathon or a mountain bike challenge.
• 11 June 2022: Truckness at Dores, by Loch Ness. 10th anniversary year.
• 2 July 2022: Skipinnish in concert at Bught Park, Inverness
• 15 July 2022: Inverness Highland Games (200th anniversary)
• 28 - 30 July 2022 Belladrum - Tartan Heart Festival on the Belladrum Estate, near Beauly.
• 4 August 2022: Black Isle Show at Mannsfield Showground, Muir of Ord (tel: 01463 870870). This is the largest agricultural show in the North of Scotland. It attracts over 2,000 cattle, horse and sheep entries, more than 300 trade stands and over 25,000 visitors to the show each year. There is plenty to see and do, craft fair, food fair, 'On the Farm' exhibition for the kids, agricultural stands, vintage rally and sheep shearing.
• 5 - 6 -August 2022: Highland Field Sports Fair at Moy Hall (between Aviemore and Inverness).

For additional events listings, see:

• The Inverness City Advertiser - detailed events listings covering music, nightclubs, cinema, theatre, sports, exhibitions, restaurants, etc.
• invernessGiGs