Yellowstone Higland Games photos

[Nighthawk]

Hey there, folks! I'm home from the Yellowstone Higland Games in Billings, Montana. Heck of a weekend! Any Montana residents who didn't go missed out!

So, here's the rundown:

I am in a Denver-based living history society called the Renaissance Scots Living History Association. We attended the Yellowstone Highland Games and Scottish Festival for the first time, and we were a huge hit. The organizers liked us so much that they took us out for drinks and dinner after the festival closed down, just so they could invite us back next year.

Friday evening saw the opening ceremonies and what was billed as a ceilidh, which more accurately could have been described as a tattoo. All kinds of local performers came out, including an Irish dance troop. Billings Ceilidh Fiddlers played on heck of a performance. I didn't get as many pictures as I would have liked because I smashed my camera screen during camp setup earlier in the day, so you'll have to forgive my lack of pictures for a lot the described events. So, here is the local pipe band:



The local Irish dance troupe:



And the highlight of the evening was a Denver based Celtic folk band called Gobs 'o Phun. They're a band who perform traditional Scottish and Irish folk music in a very traditional way. They also write a lot of their own music, songs such as Tootin' The Tartan. They're a band who make the performance fun with lively and humerus banter and funny songs peppered in with the traditional tunes. They make normal situations funny, and as we found out on Friday, they make humerous situations obscene! So here are pictures of the funny situation:







Yes, those are peacocks all over the scaffolding! By the time the show was over, there were 9 birds prancing around! They joined in with the band. If you've never heard a peacock cry, they sound a lot like a mix between a dying cat and bagpipes being tunes. And there were NINE of the things making this horrendous noise all at the same time! The Gobs had a ball with it... I bet there will be a song on the next album about peacocks...