Uncertainty around future COVID-19 restrictions impacting on major community events has forced organisers of Bendigo’s Scots Day Out to cancel the 2021 event. SDO 2020 last February was the last major Scottish celebration in Australia before COVID-19 pandemic restrictions were announced. We had again welcomes more than 5000 people to the annual free event in Rosalind Park in February - pipers, drummers, folk musicians, clans and Scots fans from around Australia. We have been