Highland Island was founded June 1, 2003 by the parents of a young Highland Dancer. Our daughter's involvement in Highland Dance has been a completely positive experience for our family. We travel together, we share triumphs and disappointments, joy and pain, we become closer to each other and make new friends every time we go to competition. Our goal in launching the site is to bring the Highland Dance community together to share experiences, knowledge and support for the growth of Highland Dance. We can only do this with the help of the visitors to the site. We urge you to provide feedback on our content and products, supply us with competition information and help us create a valuable resource to Highland Dancers in North America and around the world. Since its inception, Highland Island's product line has more than tripled and our customer base has grown incredibly. We now have customers from Alaska and Hawaii to Scotland and Italy. We have had a wonderful time getting to know our customers!

The Web Site has been completely designed by Tom, the Dancer Dad. He asks that you remember that all dancers started with the 'Pas de Basques' as their simple first step, which is the dance equivalent of his knowledge of web design when he delved into this project. Watching his daughter master the Pas de Basques and move on to the Fling, Sword, Lilt, and so on was inspirational to her father. If she could learn all these complicated steps, he could learn to build a web site. His daughter is now a Premier dancer and working hard on polishing her skill. Tom has not quite kept up with her pace and considers the launch of this site to be his equivalent of learning the Fling, but his vision for the future is certainly more on the scope of the Hornpipe. Stay tuned.....

Christine has found her calling as the official Highland Island product line developer, or more simply - shopper (a dream come true!). She was originally frustrated with the difficulty she had in locating all the products our daughter needed as she progressed in her dancing, but before long embraced it as a challenge. In dance terms, Christine was already a Premier shopper, but her efforts in putting together the Highland Island product line have been truly Championship caliber. The speed with which she is able to add new items to our unique and useful product line far surpasses her husband's ability to put those products on the web site; so over time, she has learned the ins and outs of website deisgn. Her talent at recognizing a need and locating a specific product need will give dancers and dance parents the opportunity to fill all their product needs, and needs they never even knew they had, in one convenient location. She finds it hard to sleep at night if she hasn't found at least one new item to track down and add to our product line, so keep checking back to see what's new at Highland Island.

We invite you to call or eMail with ideas, suggestions, questions, etc. any time. We're always glad to hear from you! Cheers!