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47th Annual Monterey Scottish Games & Celtic Festival coming soon on August 2nd and 3rd, 2014
47th Annual Monterey Scottish Games & Celtic Festival coming soon on August 2nd and 3rd, 2014
Put on your kilt and bring your family and friends to the 47th Annual Monterey Scottish Games & Celtic Festival.
Monterey,
CA,
United States of America
(sardnews.org)
15/07/2014
Monterey, CA, July 15, 2014 - Put on your kilt and bring your family and friends to the 47th Annual Monterey Scottish Games & Celtic Festival.
Hundreds of kilted bagpipers and dancers will be back in Monterey, California entertaining Festival-goers who will enjoy experiencing many aspects of the fascinating Celtic culture. The award-winning Scottish Society of the Monterey Peninsula will hold its 47th Annual Monterey Scottish Games & Celtic Festival (www.montereyscotgames.com) on Saturday and Sunday, August 2nd and 3rd, 2014, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The festival will take place at the beautiful and spacious Monterey County Fair & Event Center located at 2004 Fairground Road, Monterey, CA, 93940. (831) 682-2022.
This very popular Celtic celebration brings the music, dance, food and athletic events of Scotland and Ireland to Monterey County. Featuring fun activities for the whole family, the Monterey Scottish Games & Celtic Festival offers a variety of live Celtic entertainment with thrilling massed pipe bands on parade, including eight award-winning California-based pipe bands, plus talented Highland and Irish dancers.
The outstanding array of special entertainment this year will feature many crowd-pleasing favorites, including Irish singer and humorist, Seamus Kennedy, (www.seamuskennedy.com), Celtic rock band Stand Easy with John Mclean Allan (www.standeasyband.com), singer/songwriter Peter Daldry Trio (www.peterdaldry.com) and more. Returning this year is Christopher Yates (http://www.rustyhappenings.com/roving.htm) as McCloud the Scotsman, aka Kilts on Stilts, the ten foot tall roving Scotsman, entertaining for all ages. On Sunday, the Festival will also feature “Salute to the Irish” that will include special Irish entertainment.
The Monterey Scottish Games & Celtic Festival also includes exciting Scottish heavy athletic competition events seen in award-winning films such as Braveheart, Rob Roy and Brave, including the famous caber toss, hammer and stone throw, weight for distance and height, and the sheaf toss.
Other crowd-pleasing activities include the powerful massed pipe bands, thrilling Drum Major competition, Solo and Pipe Band competitions, Highland Dancing, Irish Step dancing, and sheepdog herding. Step back in time with costumed historical re-enactment Groups depicting life in 16th Century Scotland with Clan Galbraith, St. Andrew’s Society including meet and greets and tea with Mary Queen of Scots, and the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism).
Festival attendees will also enjoy researching their own clans at the clan and Celtic association tents as they stroll through the Avenue of Clans.
There are lots of fun interactive children’s games activities planned for the wee ones at the Children's Glen, too. Little ones can participate in scaled down athletic events (mini-Caber toss, pillow over the bar, mini braemar stone putt), plus enjoy fun Celtic craft projects and the popular Celtic Quest.
Don’t miss the popular whisky tasting seminar that celebrates one of Scotland’s greatest exports—fine, single malt Scotch whisky and learn more about the history, distillation process and various tasting characteristics of fine whiskies. Guinness beer and other beverages are abundant as well.
Want to learn more about Scottish drumming and try it yourself? New this year, multi-award-winning Scottish drummer, Davey MacAdams, will provide a Drum Clinic on Sunday.
The fun continues on Saturday night at 6:00 p.m. at the Ceilidh (Scottish party) at The Mucky Duck, 479 Alvarado, in downtown Monterey featuring food, drink and more Celtic entertainment.
Advance discount presale tickets are now available at www.montereyscotgames.com and tickets will be available at the gate both days of the Festival:
Each year, the proceeds from the Monterey Scottish Games & Celtic Festival benefit several local non-profit organizations in Monterey County.
For more information, check out the website montereyscotgames.com or call (831) 682-2022.
For sponsorship opportunities, interviews and high resolution photos, please call Wendy Brickman, Brickman Marketing, at 831-633-4444 or email Brickman@BrickmanMarketing.com.
Contact:
Wendy Brickman
Brickman Marketing
395 Del Monte Center #250
Monterey, CA 93940
831-633-4444
Brickman@BrickmanMarketing.com
http://www.BrickmanMarketing.com
About Brickman Marketing
Wendy Brickman, President of Brickman Marketing, moved from Los Angeles to Monterey and established Brickman Marketing in October, 1990.
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