A Mearns festival to celebrate traditional Scottish culture hasbeen hailed as a success.
Hundreds of visitors turned up to watch and take part in a widevariety of events at the Howe Festival, in its fourth year.
Organised by a voluntary committee, the festival was created tocelebrate and encourage creativity in the Mearns.
Venues in Arbuthnott, Auchenblae, Laurencekirk and Drumlithie allstaged events over three days.
A family ceilidh in Auchenblae kicked off the festival.
Visitors were encouraged to get involved with events like asinging workshop, piping taster session, and traditional musicsession.
"We have had more people come and attend the events than lastyear," co-ordinator Marion Robson said.
Audiences packed out Arbuthnott's Grassic Gibbon Centre to seeMearns raconteur Jim Brown and bothy ballad writer Charlie Allan addtheir contribution to the culture event.
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