Story #9 – The Story of Badenoch Shinty

Click the triangular ‘play’ buttons below to listen to each part of the 2-part story…

Part 1

Part 2

The Stories Behind the Stories #9

Hello all, Hamish Napier here, one of the storytellers for Badenoch Heritage. All of the stories contained within the new Badenoch – The Storylands smartphone app are here on the website now too. Each week I’ll go into a little more detail about the stories themselves: where they came from, where I read them, who I heard them from and a little more background about each one.

CREDITS

Music

Local Voice Actors

Donnie Ross – reciting Hamish Napier’s poem ‘Badenoch Shinty’, and voice of Hamish Guthrie
Hamish Napier – narrator
Hugh Dan MacLennan – as himself, and Globe Newspaper journalist
Rob Ritchie ‘The Legend’ – Revered J Ninian Macdonald of Fort Augustus (shinty scholar)
Ruaridh Ormiston – Angus MacPherson

Researchers

Hamish Napier, with the kind help of shinty scholar Hugh Dan Maclennan and local historians Rosemary Gibson and John Robertson.

Unofficial junior training ground on the golf course in Newtonmore, late 1980s. Courtesy of the DONALD MACKAY ARCHIVE.

Kincraig Team back in the day. Courtesy of the DONALD MACKAY ARCHIVE)

David Anderson of Kingussie and Norman MacArthur of Newtonmore (Courtesy of the DONALD MACKAY ARCHIVE)

The final! Courtesy of the DONALD MACKAY ARCHIVE.

Kingussie vs. Newtonmore.  Courtesy of the DONALD MACKAY ARCHIVE.

Kingussie vs. Newtonmore.  Courtesy of the DONALD MACKAY ARCHIVE.

Shinty monument in Newtonmore

Want to hear more stories like this?…

Download and listen to all 18 stories on the free Badenoch – The Storylands smartphone app, or alternatively you can listen on your computer and download them here.