Quote Originally Posted by mookien View Post
FWIW, Wikipedia under the heading "Highland games" states the following:

The Cowal Highland Gathering, better known as the Cowal Games, held in Dunoon, Scotland, every August, is the largest Highland games in the world, attracting around 3,500 competitors and somewhere in the region of 23,000 spectators from around the globe. Worldwide, however, it is exceeded in terms of spectators by two gatherings in the United States: the 50,000 that attend Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina and the even larger gathering—the largest in the Northern Hemisphere that has taken place every year since 1865 hosted by the Caledonian Club of San Francisco. This event is currently held on Labor Day weekend in Pleasanton, California.
If you check Wikipedia under Glengarry Highland Games in Maxville, Ontario you will see the claim that they are the largest games outside of Scotland. Who knows. Depends on what you count. As home to the North American Pipe Band Championship, they draw in the order of 50,000 folks each year. They certainly have a lot of bands competing.