When it comes to celebrating Celtic culture around Chicago, people of Scottish descent always seem to be overshadowed by the Irish. There's no national holiday like St. Patrick's Day when "everyone is ...
Irish dancing, kilts and pints of Guinness are coming to a park near you. The first-ever Holland Waterfront Celtic Festival and Highland Games is June 24-25, promising a weekend of entertainment, ...
The Saltire billows in the wind and bagpipes clamour for attention. An enormous, muscular man in a kilt is carrying what looks like (and could well be) a tree trunk high in the air. With a grunt and a ...
You don't have to be Scottish to be familiar with bagpipes, harps, kilts the caber toss or the hammer throw. But there is one ancient Scottish tradition which is only just recently gaining some notice ...
Cindy Kimove says she doesn't remember life before Highland dancing. Her mother was from Scotland and Kimove has been dancing since she was three years old. Today she runs CK Dance Company in ...
With a loud grunt, David Marble slung a 56-pound hunk of steel more than 23 feet. Although not a winning throw, it was a demonstration of how to maintain one’s manliness while dressed in a skirt. Like ...
Wearing his favourite kilt, Charles III looked suave in a pair of sunglasses as he enjoyed the traditional spectacle in John o' Groats. The kilt - in Prince Charles Edward Stewart tartan - is the same ...
SPOKANE, Wash. - Time to dust of your kilt and dig out your bagpipes —the annual Spokane Scottish Highland Games returns! This Saturday, head to the Spokane County Fair & Expo Center between 9 ...
The DeNogla School of Dance in Hamilton performs at prior Irish festival in this file photo. HAMILTON -- What was formerly known as the Irish Festival at Mercer County Park - held for the past five ...
A talented Highland dancer is back in her kilt just six months after she endured seven hours of surgery – which left her with 15 bolts in her spine. Isla Robertson, 15, feared she would never be able ...