"Shane" [Shain] Meaning: Soon
Hawick Reivers Festival
23 March 2024, Hawick
Runs to 24 February 2024
This year’s festival takes place in Hawick from Friday 22 to Sunday 24 March.
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 and explore, and will endeavour to explain day-to-day life in this violent and turbulent period of history.
Fiercely loyal and independent, hardworking and prepared to fight for what they believed in, these men and women of the 1500s did much to shape the character of the modern-day Borderers.
A programme of this year’s events can be found here.
To learn more, visit the festival website here.
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