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SPECIAL PREVIEW ISSUE!!

Southern California's Largest Scottish Highland Games and Celtic Festival

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Scottish Fest Special Issue

Irish Arts and Entertainment

Each year the Celts and Clans of Southern California gather to celebrate Scottish Pride and Hospitality at

the County Orange Fairgrounds and Event Center in Cos-ta Mesa. For many years, the Irish Arts & Entertainment has been invited to participate in this grand gathering. We are delighted to participate with our fellow Celts and to welcome all of Southern California to join us in attend-ing this great event. Please be sure to drop by our IRISH ARTS OUTREACH BOOTH! We will be doing our an-nual Opt In and Win contest for everyone that signs up for our E-Newsletters and our Digital or Print issue of the Irish Arts & Entertainment.

ON THE COVER On our cover, we offer our readers a glimpse of

the excitement in store for visitors to Scottish Fest USA! Pictured are The Scottish Fiddlers of LA, Ex-citing Bands, The Marine Corps Band, Marching Pi-pebands, Caber Tossing and much more!!

Welcome to the Scottish Fest USA Preview Issue!


Alex Beaton Returns In a non-performance appearance Alex returns to the festival that started his festival career. Alex looks forward to seeing his fans and chatting with old friends.

Heritage Stage The new stage will feature tradition-al music and entertainment such as harpers and fiddlers. Increasing the number of stages provides the opportunity to add more entertain-ment to the festival.

Beard & Moustache Contest Do you have a beard or mustache that you want to enter to be judged in the contest? Several categories to win: Mustache; Partial Beard; Full Beard (beards over and under 12 inches).

The 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing Band Returns to the Fest iva l The 3rd Marine Aircraft Wingg BBBanannddd ReR turns to the Fest iva l

Southern California's Celtic Festival is Coming To Orange County United Scottish Society (USS)

a non-profit organization Proudly Presents

May 28th and 29th OC Fair & Event Center

Daily 9am to 6pm The family friendly festival has the best of Scottish and Celtic enter-tainment and events from the sounds of bagpipes to crack’n Celtic music to men and women throwing heavy objects in the pro-fessional and amateur athletics to dancing to numerous children’s activities to sheep herding demos to the smells of authentic Celtic foods and the sights of the kilts.

N e w f o r 2 0 1 6 If you haven’t been to the festival or are long time guests this year has

exciting new features you don’t want to miss.

Irish Whisky The festival will offer an Irish Whis-ky as part of the premiere Whisky Tasting. The Irish Whisky will be part of the World Tasting that in-cludes whiskies from Japan, Eng-land, USA, Scotland and IrelandIrish Coffee Contest With the addition of Irish Whisky to the Whisky Tasting it makes sense to add Irish Coffee

Canadian Youth Pipe Bands The all youth world champion Rob-ert Malcolm Memorial Pipe Bands from Canada are part of the World Class Pipe Band Contest .

Rock ‘N Piper Retired U.S. Marine Joel M. Daniel performs classic rock and modern pop songs transcribed to the GHB such as AC/DC, Lady Gaga, Jour-ney, Fun, Joan Jet, and many oth-ers.


Comedic Talent of Christopher

You may know him as the Rusty Bawls Show, or as stilt character "McCloud", or his comi-cal look at Contempo-rary Scot-

tish Rock Musicians show, but no matter how you know him you always know you’ll be entertained. A graduate of the Wellington Preform-ing Arts School in New Zealand, Chris-topher has performed on five different conti-nents and no matter the age will win peo-ple’s hearts. Christopher brings a comedic energy to his Edin-burgh Festival like perfor-mances at the festi-val. Don’t miss him!

C r ac k ' n Ce l t i c Mus ic

The 2016 music line-up at Scottish Fest is one of the best in Southern California with all the favor-ites like Bad Haggis, Wicked Tinkers, Neil O'Neill,

Sligo Rags, Highland Way, and the Ploughboys.

The musical performances span the spectrum of Celtic music from the troubadour Neil O'Neill to the cutting-edge Celtic fusion with rock by Bad Haggis.

This will be the 17th year Bad Haggis brings their hearing-is-believing sonic ex-perience to festival. The band is led by “the most recorded piper of all time”, Eric Riggler. A few of his credits are Outlander, Braveheart, Titanic, Men in Black, and the Simpsons plus he's in demand by studios from Hollywood to Nashville to Abbey Road, bringing the timeless, haunting sonorities of the uilleann pipes, the Great Highland Bag-pipe and whistle to au-diences around the world.

A festival favorite are the pioneers of the growing Tribal Celtic movement. The Wicked Tinkers have been playing haunting, heart-pounding bag-pipes and irresistible tribal drums as a profession-

al touring band since 1995. Don't think this is dry, dusty music for museum shelves as the Wicked Tinkers merge the best of modern, almost rock-and-roll energy with the hypnotic, insistent grooves of

their Gaelic ancestors. Rare is the bystander who comes away without feeling a surprising, sometimes bewildering connection to long-

forgotten primal emotions.

The whisky tavern stage is growing in popularity with the entertaining show, "Learn To Play the Bagpipes" by John Allan. John masterfully blends comedy and music while providing insight to how one plays the bagpipe. Neil O’Neill is consid-

ered one of the premiere Celtic singers and his melodic voice contributes to the success of the whisky tavern stage.

The new heritage stage features the melodic strings of the Raggle Taggle Harpers and the toe tapping driving force of fiddle mu-

sic. Scottish Fest has some of the best fiddlers in Southern California with performances by the Scottish Fiddlers of Los Angeles. A strong entertainment line-up indeed!


t he C la ns . . . It would not be Scottish Fest without the herit-age, vivid color, and pageantry the clans bring to the festival. With 70+ Scottish clans and organ-izations on hand, tracing your heritage can be a fulfilling experience of learning about the col-orful and often bloody history. The Clan is a concept which dates back to the 12th Century. While the word 'clan' is derived from the Gaelic 'clann', meaning family or children, not everyone in the same clan is related to each other. It's a common error that every person who bears a clan's name is a lineal descendant of the chiefs. Find out more about your lineage at Scottish Fest.

S ho p , Sho p and Sho p If you love to shop then you'll love about 60 celtic vendors sell-ing a wide variety of Celtic prod-ucts at Scottish Fest . From a kilt, to sweets, to books and jew-elry; from a sword to a spor-

ran to a set of bagpipes it can all be purchased from the plethora of shops at Scottish Fest.

They'll be plenty of products with tartan which is the symbol-ic national dress of Scotland after the Dress Act of 1746 ban-ning the tartan and other as-pects of Gaelic culture was re-pealed in 1782. The kilt is the most iconic use of tartan, but there is also the solid color Irish kilt and the more recent and practical utility kilt.

The festival is a family friendly event with a wide array of activities for all ages. There will

be activities such as children's athletics, inflatable jumpers, sheep herding demonstrations, face painting and archery.

Vin ta ge C ar s How many different makes of British Cars can you name? Most people when they think of British Cars think MG, Healey, Jaguar, As-ton Martin, Rolls Royce, Bentley and Mini. Although most of them have disappeared over time, there have been over 940 different British car makes and more than 75 Scottish car manufacturers. Stop by the Vin-tage Car display to see a variety of fine British automotive designs and engineering. The owners are al-ways willing to talk about the cars.

P r o fes s io na l At h le t i cs Scottish Fest is a festival of champions with one of the only festivals in Southern Cal-ifornia that has a Professional Class Athletic Championship in events such as the Caber Toss, Throwing the Weight, Putting the Stone and Ham-mer Throw. These champion-ships are extremely physical, mentally challenging and ex-citing to watch.

C h i l d r en ’s Ac t i v i t i e s


Highland Dancing ChampionshipScottish Fest is proud to host the Western Regional Highland Dancing Champion-ship that is a qualifier for the U.S. National Championship at the end of July in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Western Region has a pedigree of winners at the Na-tionals and last year was no different with Erin Blair and Kaylee Finnegan winning Championship titles at last year's competition. They represented the Western Region that is comprised of Arizona. California, Hawaii and Nevada. Only

at Scottish Fest will you see the top dancers in each age group qualify to compete at this year's National Championships.

Competing at the festival will be Erin Blair who won her second World Juvenile Cham-pion title at the Cowel Games in Scotland last year.

Two sought after titles at the festival are the City of Edinburgh Medal awarded to the best dancer at Scottish Fest each year and the Robert Lyall Lowe Memorial Scholar-

ship Award presented to the winner of a special Highland Fling event for any California dancer under the age of 7

New this year, you can learn some of the basic steps at the Highland Dancing Learning Experience. It will provide an opportunity to try some of the basic steps. Come visit the dancers at Scottish Fest and join us on to watch the 2016 Championship competition in the Nan Da-ley Highland Dancing Pavilion.

Plethora of Pipe Bands Galore Scottish Fest hosts the largest Pipe Band Championship in Southern Cali-fornia. with about 23 pipe bands planned to compete from Canada to states like Arizona, Utah and of course California. Two bands connected to the Irish tradition will compete, Bushmills Irish Pipe Band and the LA Police Emerald Society Pipes and Drums. The LA Scots Grade I pipe band will also be performing daily. The Scottish or Irish pipe band in its most common form consists of pipers playing the Great Highland Bagpipe (In Ireland known as the Great Irish War pipes), snare drummers, tenor drummers and usually a bass drummer. The drum section is known collectively as the drum corps. The entire band

is led by a pipe major and the drum corps is led by a drum sergeant. The pipe band began in the military, but its origins are ob-scure, and historical records exist mostly in hints gleaned from contemporary regimental records that had no direct in-terest in pipes. It is known that pipers served in regiments from the earliest times; the Royal Scots have records refer-ring to pipers dating back to the early seven-teenth century. The tunes played consists of music from the

Scottish, Irish and Breton traditions, either in the form of tradi-tional folk tunes and dances, or music that has been adapted for the pipes. Examples are marches, slow airs, jigs, reels, and strathspeys. Competition is a focus for many pipe bands throughout the world during the spring to autumn period. Pipe bands are judged in three areas: bagpiping, drumming and ensemble (pipes and drums playing together). In addition to the band competitions Scottish Fest is home to the largest solo field in Southern California with over 150 piping and drumming competitors from the novice to professional class in a variety of music types such jigs, hornpipes, reels and marches.

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Tasty Celtic Fare and Drink The Scottish are not known for their cui-sine, but there's a variety of scrumptious Celtic food to try at the festival including haggis. Haggis is considered the national dish of Scotland as a result of Robert Burns' po-em, Address to a Haggis of 1787. Ever wanted to try haggis or at least be able to say you did? Or maybe you're a lover of haggis. Whatever the case the festival offers traditional haggis either with or without a dram splash. If haggis is not on your food "bucket list" the festival offers a variety of other scrumptious Celtic fare like corned beef sandwiches, Fish ‘N Chips, bangers and meat pies. New this year is an assortment of tasty pies like Chicken Chili Verde, Lamb Cur-ry, Macaroni and Cheese, and Cajun Spice. There's also a variety of American fare. The selection of beers is broad and ranges from Guinness to Belhaven.

Over the past several years Scottish Fest has built its Whisky Tasting into one of the finest in Southern California by combining a unique hard to find varie-ty of premium whiskies along with a knowledgea-ble and entertaining whisky master, Chris Uhde. Chris is also the founder of the Southern Califor-nia Whisky Club.

New this year to the festival’s premium offering of tastings is a selection of whiskies from around the world. The new offering includes a 10yr Irish Single Malt, two Japanese whiskies, a triple smoke single malt from the United States, a cask strength whisky from England and rounding out the selection is the Exclusive Malts Glen Keith 19yr from Scotland Whisky tasting is the analysis of whisky through aroma, visual examination and taste. Single cask is a premium class of whisky in which each bottle comes from an individual ag-

ing barrel, instead of being created by blending together the contents of various barrels to pro-vide uniformity of color and taste. Even whis-kies that are not blends may be combined from more than one batch, or even from differing years to achieve their consistency. Cask strength is a term used in whisky-making to describe the level of alcohol-by-volume and cask strength whiskies are usually not diluted by water in production. In addition to the Around the World flight of whiskies, the Beauty of Cask Strength Whisky flight features the "Speyside Whisky of the Year"- Whisky Advocate Magazine - Tamdhu Batch Strength Edition 117.6 proof. Surround-ing this fine whisky are five others including a 28yr Exclusive Malts Caledonian Single Cask. This year’s premium tasting is a Cask limited edi-tion of Scotch Whiskies with a retail price for these bottles of over $1,000 combined. Leading the flight is the 42yr Exclusive Malts Invergordon Sin-gle Cask whisky. Three of the remaining five whiskies are 19yr old or better. Truly and excep-tional flight of whiskies that can’t be missed. To taste whisky at the festival visit the popular Whisky Tavern. Purchase a dram from a varie-ty of select whiskies at the bar or join the premi-ere tasting sessions offered daily. The tastings sell out every year so reserve your space now on our website. * Because of the limited nature of these items, the malts are subject to change without notice.

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Pageantry of the Drum Majors One of the highlights of the festival is the Drum Major Championship that features some of the best drum majors in the U.S. Also, the world Class Drum Majors lead the 500 plus pipers and drummers daily in the awe inspiring Mass Bands.

Sword Training by KRON

Go back in time and learn the technique of sword fighting. All ages welcome to battle if you dare!


Salute to Veterans The festival offers active, retired and veteran military personnel free admittance with a valid mili-tary ID. "It's the least we can do. These courageous men and women do so much for us each and every day...to offer free en-try is a small token of apprecia-tion", proclaims the Chieftain. The 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing Band will perform both days at

the festival including performances with the mass bands. "We are pleased to have the brilliant musicianship of the band be a part of the 2016 festival", Chieftain Tom Reoch Jr. stated

in an exclusive interview. On Sunday morning there's an opportunity to remember those that made the ultimate sacrifice at the Memorial Service officiated by Navy Chaplain Lt. Ted Leenerts (Ret). In addition, we give thanks to veterans for their service at the daily Salute to Veterans and Scottish Clan March Program. Again this year several members of the Ma-rine band will showcase more of their talent when their rock band takes to the Beaton Stage. A festival moment to remember.

LA Police Emerald Society Pipes & Drums

Visit the Website to Purchase a VIP Package or Discount Tickets

www.scottishfest.com At Gate Ticket Price One Day Two Day Adult $18 $25 Senior/Student $16 $22 Children (5-12) $3 $4 Under 5 Free Free Military * Free Free (*Active, Retired or Veteran with valid ID)

One of the bands that will be competing and performing at Scot-tish Fest will be the Los Angeles Police Emerald Society Pipes and Drums (LAPES). The band was established in 1992 as a non-profit, multi-agency organization with the objective of fostering goodwill among the members of the numerous law enforcement communities. The band was founded by two Los Angeles Police Emerald Society members, Scott Walton, a detective with LAPD, and Steve Kirby, a retired LAPD detective. Scott is currently the Pipe Major of the band. The band wears the All Ire-land Green Tartan. In addi-tion, many aspects of the bands uniform are more than decoration like the harp on the sporran, but none more meaningful than their bag custom made pipe covers . The bagpipe covers were selected to pay tribute and honor the memory of Policeman Ian James Campbell. Ian was a life-long bagpipe player. On March 10, 1963, while on duty, Ian was mur-dered. The movie The Onion Field told his story. Scottish Fest is proud to be the home of the Ian Campbell trophy that is awarded in solo piping. USS Chairman, Ron Cody, is a tenor drummer in the band. Come see the band compete and perform both days.

VIP Experience Ever wanted to be treated like a King or Queen? Now's your opportunity with two great value VIP packages; the Chairman and the Chieftain. You can sit and have a complimentary pint and Celtic food, amongst the action and sounds of the festival at the House of the VIP pri-vate area in the Whisky Tavern. Depending on the package selected there's complimentary t-shirts, polo shirts, parking, whisky, admittance to the festival and much more...


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June 25 & 269am–5pm • Brengle Terrace Park

1200 Vale Terrace Dr. • Vista, CA 92084

201643rd Annual

& Gathering of the Clans

San Diego

Scottish

Highland

Games

For more information:

760-726-3691619-884-3157

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Vendors of Everything Scottish: From Foods to Arts & Crafts

Massed Bagpipe BandsScottish Athletics

Educational ClassesHighland Dancing

CompetitionDrum Major

Bag Piping andDrumming Competitions

Sheepdog TrialsScottish Country Dancing

Kids’ AthleticsKid’s Area

Child ID ProgramOpening Ceremonies

at Noon each day.Closing Ceremonies

with Massed Pipe Bandsat 4:45 PM each day.

Get Your Tickets EarlyPre sale Ticket Prices until June 10:

Adults: $13 per daySenior & Military: $8 per day

Youth 6-16: $5 per day

Entertainment Featuring:

Highland Way

Molly’s RevengeThe Angry BriansBlackwaterside


2016

Buy your tickets online! Friday $20 • Saturday $30 • Two Day Pass $40

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GAELIC STORM YOUNG DUBLINERS

THE FIGHTING JAMESONSTHE ANGRY BRIANS HOIST THE COLORS

THE MCKINTREE BOYS WHISKEY SUNDAY

MIDNIGHT SATELLITES THE AMERICAN WAKE

THE MAHONES

FLATFOOT 56 THE TOSSERS

BLACK IRISH TEXASBRICK TOP BLAGGERS

QUEL BORDEL

CELTIC PUNK CELTIC ROCK

2 DAYS OF PURE CELTIC MAGIC! #GetShamrocked

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Friday September 23rd Saturday September 24th

This is a 21+ event All patrons will be required to show photo ID before entering the festival.

EARLY BIRD SPECIAL! 2 Day pass for $30expires on 3/25/16

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