Cobourg Highland Games Society Presents
Northumberland Scottish Festival & Highland Games
June 14 & 15, 2024
Bruce Fummey - Our Honourary Chieftain, 2024
We're thrilled to announce that Bruce is taking time out of his "Stories of Scotland" Canadian Tour to take on the role of Honourary Chieftain for our Northumberland Highland Games.
Check out performance dates and locations or Bruce's YouTube channel.
Bruce Fummey's Biography
Bruce Fummey is the Scottish YouTuber and stand-up comic behind the Scotland History Tours YouTube channel.
He was born and raised in Perth, studied physics in Paisley and after a career as a physics teacher in Brechin and Falkirk, training consultant with Scottish Amicable in Stirling, and stint as a financial adviser at the age of 40, and back in Perthshire, he finally got a proper job when he started doing stand-up comedy.
Each year at Edinburgh Fringe he’d perform a new show about some different aspect of Scottish history, till in 2018 he thought, why don’t I take people to the places and show them. Since then he’s been a tour guide by day and a stand-up comic by night. It’s incredible to do the best job in the world and do the second best as a job on the side.
When COVID put a stop to both jobs, Bruce started making videos to tell Scotland’s stories remotely. Thus was born a YouTube channel that’s grown to 200,000 subscribers. Bruce is in Canada in 2024 performing his live show Stories of Scotland and making videos for his channel Scotland History Tours about the Scots who made Canada.
He says: ‘Since starting the YouTube channel I’ve had the good fortune to do many things, few of which I could never have dreamed of growing up in Perth, and none of which I deserve. The honour to be involved in Northumberland Highland Games is just one of them.
Stories of Scotland Tour of Canada
Bruce will tour Canada from April 27, 2024 until July 4, 2024, with his first stop in Toronto.
From Toronto he heads to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Montreal, and back into Ontario, before ending his tour in Calgary.
We look forward to having Bruce as our Honourary Chieftain at our Highland Games on June 15th. He plans to spend some time with us, filming and meeting as many of you as he possibly can.
Below is Bruce's 2024 schedule for his Stories of Scotland Canadian Tour, and a link to purchase tickets for each event.
April 27th : Toronto, Ontario at The Royal
May 3rd : Annapolis, Nova Scotia at the Kings Theatre
May 16th : Halifax, Nova Scotia at the Bus Stop Theatre
May 17th : Halifax, Nova Scotia at the Bus Stop Theatre
May 18th : New Glasgow, Nova Scotia at the Glasgow Square Theatre
May 24th : Moncton, New Brunswick at The Empress Theatre
May 31st : Montreal, Quebec at the Théâtre La Comédie de Montréal
June 1st : Perth, Ontario at the Studio Theatre
June 7th : Ottawa, Ontario at the Gladstone Theatre
June 22nd: Seaforth, Ontario at the Seaforth Golf Club
June 28th : Fergus, Ontario at the Fergus Grand Theatre
July 4th : Calgary, Alberta at the Engineered Air Theatre
Tickets for each show can be purchased here