Inverness’ Red Hot Highland Fling Hogmanay occasion completely scrapped

Inverness’ Red Hot Highland Fling has been scrapped, says Highland Council.

The celebration was billed as Scotland’s greatest free Hogmanay live performance and drew crowds of as much as 10,000 individuals, earlier than ticketing was later launched and numbers restricted to about 5,000.

The metropolis has hosted a public Hogmanay occasion since 2008.

Last year’s Red Hot Highland Fling did not go ahead as a result of funding and capability points, and now Highland Council has mentioned it had been cancelled completely.

The native authority mentioned Inverness Events and Festivals Working Group had confirmed the town’s frequent good fund might now not assist and run a public Hogmanay occasion.

Inverness provost Glynis Sinclair mentioned: “Sadly, we have come to the end of an era of the Red Hot Highland Fling Hogmanay Event.

“It is with remorse that we verify that this main occasion within the Inverness Events and Festivals programme will now not characteristic on the winter competition calendar of occasions.”

She said the working group had worked with hospitality businesses to try and come up with a new event.

The provost added: “Unfortunately, no proposals had been forthcoming and due to this fact there is no such thing as a longer the justification to take a position funds from the Inverness Common Good Fund right into a Hogmanay occasion.”

The Red Hot Highland Fling was held within the Northern Meeting Park on the town’s Riverside.