Shinty (Scottish Gaelic: camanachd, iomain) is a team game played with sticks and a ball. Shinty is now played mainly in the Scottish Highlands, and amongst Highland migrants to the big cities of Scotland, but it was formerly more widespread, being once competitively played on a widespread basis in England and other areas in the world where Scottish Highlanders migrated.

While comparisons are often made with field hockey, the two games have several important differences. In shinty, a player is allowed to play the ball in the air and is allowed to use both sides of the stick, called a caman which is wooden and slanted on both sides. The stick may also be used to block and to tackle, although a player may not come down on an opponent's stick, a practice called hacking. Players may also tackle using the body as long as it is shoulder-to-shoulder.

The game was derived from the same root as the Irish game of hurling but has developed different rules and features. These rules are governed by the Camanachd Association.

Gary Innes (born 1980) is a Scottish musician, star shinty player and broadcaster from Spean Bridge, Lochaber, Scotland. He is an accordion player and established Scottish shinty Internationalist. He has been a part time fire-fighter in the Highlands and Islands Fire Service since 1999.

Gary Innes is a product of the Feis movement and has had a professional career playing the accordion since 2002.

In 2005 he recorded his debut solo album How's the Craic? on Skipinnish Records.

Outside of his regular session band, Innes is currently involved in two bands, Mànran and also Box Club, alongside ex-Croft No. Five accordionist John Somerville.

Innes plays a mixture of festivals, concerts, and corporate functions all over the World from Royalty, Grand Theatres to small local sessions. He has traveled and played all over Europe, Jordan, USA, China and Kazakhstan. He joined Runrig on stage at their concert Beat the Drum in Drumnadrochit on 18 August 2007 where he played to an audience of 17500, and has continued to join the band at many of there open air shows with'clash of the ash

Fergie MacDonald (born c. 1940s, Glasgow) is a Scottish accordionist who specializes in ceilidh music and plays the button key accordion. A trained physiotherapist and an international clay pigeon shooter, MacDonald is considered[1] to be the man who popularised the West Highland style of traditional Scottish dance music. He was brought up in Moidart.

MacDonald topped the Scottish pop charts in 1966 with his tune "Loch Maree Islands". He was initially banned from appearing on the BBC due to the traditional audition process but is now regularly featured on BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio nan Gaidheal.

He still tours today throughout the world and has released 23 albums to date. He is well known through the tales told by fellow Scottish accordionist Phil Cunningham as part of his stage act.

He released his autobiography in 2003, Fergie: Memories of a Musical Legend.