Scottish Dance and Music Ohio Scottish Games and Celtic Festival Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds June 24, 2023
One of the highlights of the Ohio Scottish Games and Celtic Festival were the bands and dancers.
Here's a quick video of young girls from the Brady-Campbell School of Irish Dance.
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The Scottish Highland Dance competition was impressive.
Members of the Royal Scottish Country Dance, Cleveland Heights Group performed this jig named for Antarctica.
The leader of the group explained how to tell the difference between a reel and a jig. Then members of the Royal Scottish Country Dance, Cleveland Heights Group performed this swashbuckling dance.
The Kilroys have been playing traditional Irish music in the city of Cleveland and throughout the Midwest for the past 30 years. Their music blends rock, acoustic melodies, and electronic to create a unique sound with accordion, fiddle, banjo, guitar, bouzuki, bagpipes, and ulliean pipes. They sing about the excitement of traveling alone, young love, and getting older. Enjoy this classic song.
The Kilroys
The Prodigals are one of the iconic Celtic rock bands. They have released ten albums, the most recent in 2022, and have headlined major venues across the United States and Ireland. The Prodigals' sound retains authentic Irish traditional melodic roots, while embracing eclectic world rhythms infused with NYC energy. Here the one musician puts down his flute and comes down from the stage and does some very fast Irish dancing.
The Prodigals
Custy and Macnamara
There was a Scottish Harp Competition.
Sue Borowski of Steeltown Acoustic Instruments Experience (SAIE) brought in part of her collection of Celtic acoustic instruments for people to see, touch and try out. SAIE is an interactive, educational and a "play music on the spot" experience for people to show their musical talent and to learn about a variety of instruments and how they connect to Celtic music. For the past ten years Jim and Sue Borowski have exhibited and shared their personal collection of instruments with the outside public.
She showed us violins, viola, bowl backed mandolin, bouzouki, hammered dulcimer, rose harp, lap dulcimer, small pipes, Highland bagpipes, Uilleann pipes, authoharp, bodhran, concertina and flute. Many people have commented that the SAIE inspired them or someone in their family to learn to play an instrument.
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