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Profile
| Billy Forsyth - A Profile | | | Twice winner of the World Highland Dancing Championship, Billy has extensive experience as performer, manager and director of stage, arena, television and cabaret shows in Scotland and around the world. He has adjudicated at Dance Championships on every continent, toured and performed throughout Canada and the United States, demonstrated and lectured in such diverse locations as Tokyo, Japan, Quito in Ecuador and Karachi, Pakistan, and performed regularly in cabaret at venues such as Gleneagles Hotel and Dunblane Hydro Hotel, both near his base in Bridge of Allan, Scotland. For a number of years he has been Highland Dance Director for the world famous Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo and has presented his Edinburgh Tattoo Highland Ceilidh Dancers team to 60,000 spectators in the Amsterdam Arena, at the most famous theatre in the world the London Palladium, and at the Nova Scotia International Tattoo in Canada as well as at major events in the UK, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, Australia and New Zealand. |  | In 1996 after almost 25 years as Chairman of the Scottish Official Board of Highland Dancing, the World Governing Body, Billy was elected Honorary President of SOBHD, which co-ordinates a network of over 60 independent associations and organisations around the world, representing over 50,000 Scottish Highland dancers. He is a founder member and a director of the Scottish Traditions of Dance Trust, the only organisation charged with the remit to research, collect, conserve, foster and promote all of Scotland’s Heritage of Music and Dance. Billy markets his own design of Highland and Scottish Country dance shoes, selling to retailers, instructors and dancers all over the world. He retired after twenty six years service, the last six years as Chief Executive, with Scottish Youth Hostels, an organisation which registers over 500,000 overnights per annum, and is the largest network of holiday accommodation in Scotland specially provided for young people. SYHA is part of the Hostelling International network. |
Anne Forsyth
Anne looks after the day to day operations of Billy Forsyth Scottish Dancing shoes. Anne primarily deals with orders, invoicing and shipping out products to our customers.
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