The bellow of bagpipes fills the air at the 32nd annual Australian Celtic Festival.
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They are joined in chorus by fiddles, violins and cellos as traditionally dressed dancers amaze crowds, low grey clouds hang ominously adding a twang of authenticity.
Unfortunately those same clouds opened up with some heavy rains on Saturday night, meaning a relocation or unfortunate cancellation for a number of events on the second day of the Festival.
The dampening stings a little more for organisers this year after pundits had seen possibly the biggest crowd yet for the annual festivities on Saturday.
Masses of market stalls encircled the standing stones, a trail of food vans wrapped those and performance halls and dot the outskirts of the festival grounds.
A mix of aromas swirl through the air from coffee vans to loaded fries, pulled pork rolls and burgers. There's whiskey and gin tastings for those craving a little extra flavour in the day.
Haggis burgers were likely the closest thing to traditional, but an array of flame-grilled goodies please the masses.
Armidale's NEMAS group re-enact medieval combat amidst a time-appropriate campground and just beyond that Highland Muscle heads up the Highland Games where stone and caber toss events wow a strong crowd of onlookers.
There's even fully-armoured knights jousting on the grounds.
Local and visiting dance troupes are dressed to the nines as they perform either traditional or modern interpretive dances on one of the stages.
The standing stones serve as a centralised staging area for some of the festivals keynote addresses and formalities.