North Texas Scottish Festival

**Ronusan** · 8th June 08, 09:20 PM

Had a great time there this weekend! Made sure to see The Rogues and Clandestine, who didn't disapoint. Caught as many performances of the NTCP&D as I could, you guys were amazing as always! But I think by far the highlight of the weekend for me was Saturday night in the tent right by the entrance. I don't think it was any specific band, just lots of musicians (including a few from Clandestine) jamming together, having a blast AND sounding absolutely incredible. At one time there were 6 fiddlers on stage, all virtuoso in their own right. Was just a fantastic show and really brought out all I love about Celtic music. Attended the Scottish Country Dance workshop (girlfriend's idea) and the Bodhran workshop. The dancing workshop was fun, the Bodhran one, well . . . it could have been a little more focused and as a former music theory nerd I had some frustrations with how he explained some things to the class. I still learned some very helpful techniques from it though (I'm a total beginner) so I definitely would consider it time well spent and I appreciate the teacher's effort.

Only downside to the weekend was a mildly unpleasant run in with The Kilt Police that I'm fairly sure I was actually in the right on.

I'll post about that separately as I want to find out from more people what the truth of it is.

And I bought a can of the canned haggis there to cook for my parents one night.

Saw Rowdy Red, Cynthia and Christopher there and saw Lambda playing up in the bleachers I think. Was a lot of fun!

**McMathTX** · 9th June 08, 04:46 AM

I was there Saturday from 10-1pm and then again from 5-10pm. Had a great time. If I saw anybody, I didn't know it. Ron, I was in the bodhran workshop on Saturday, were you in that one?
Dean

**Cynthia** · 9th June 08, 06:46 AM

Ron, if you're ever in Grapevine go to the British Emporium. They sell Caledonian Kitchen stuff

(In fact, I just posted in our social group how we should have a kilted outing to Grapevine in the near future).

Darnit! I missed Rowdy... we probably left too soon. Ah well

**Morris at Heathfield** · 9th June 08, 11:14 AM

I was there on Saturday from about 11am to a quarter to 10pm. The weather was warm to hot and quite windy. It was partly cloudy but still sunny most of the time. I wore sunscreen, but I still got a little burnt.

I didn't see or meet anyone from the forum here, so far as I know. I took a lot of pictures, though. I saw a little bit of everything. The only thing I missed that I really wanted to see was the harp competition, as I had tarried a little too long at the Highland dancing tent. (Also, it took me a while to discover the location of the hidden workshop rooms.

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**Snoozeman** · 10th June 08, 06:04 AM

What a great thread.

I've been attending this event for years.

I'm looking forward to photos. Did anyone enter the photo contest?

**Morris at Heathfield** · 10th June 08, 04:50 PM

I took about 170 photos of widely variable quality. A few of them were probably worth entering in the photo contest, but that wasn't really at the top of my mind at the time. I will start a thread on the "Show us your pics" forum shortly.

**Ancienne Alliance** · 10th June 08, 05:10 PM

Originally Posted by Morris of Heathfield

I took about 170 photos of widely variable quality. A few of them were probably worth entering in the photo contest, but that wasn't really at the top of my mind at the time. I will start a thread on the "Show us your pics" forum shortly.

That's so cool, MoF. Thank you.