Great Scot!
The fifth annual Allegheny RiverStone Center for the Arts Scottish Festival will fill the air with traditional Scottish and Celtic music.
The tunes begin Friday with the sound of bagpipes, fiddles and traditional song at 7 p.m. on the Foxburg Green in Foxburg.
The traditional Ceilidh will feature singer entertainer Carl Peterson, tenor Robert Murdoch, bagpiper Patrick Regan and the group Maidens IV.
Admission Friday is by donation.
New for this year’s festival will be the Celtic/Scottish band, The Celtic Martins, playing at RiverStone Farm during the day and in concert at 7 p.m. Saturday in Foxburg at Lincoln Hall, 92 Palmer St.
The Celtic Martins, a family band from south-eastern Pennsylvania, feature traditional Celtic music as well as highland step dancing by the six Martin children, ranging in age from 6 to 21, accompanied by their parents on guitar and bass, and drummer, Elijah Roeder.
Instruments include Irish whistles, mandolin, bagpipes, and percussion along with the fiddle.
Saturday night concert tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students and free for children under 12.
The MacDonald Pipe Band of Pittsburgh will open the games and festival and will be heard throughout the day Saturday at RiverStone Farm.
Peterson will headline the music entertainment along with Murdoch the Scottish tenor in the Music Grove. There will be a solo piper competition.
The Crazy Piper and the Plaid Chameleons will also be on the grounds along with the Scottish Tartan juggler.
Scottish dogs will perform sheep herding demonstrations, and there will be an obedience and agility ring.
If it rains, many activities will move indoors.
There will also be athletic competitions including the tabor toss, a soccer clinic and shoot out and a golf hole-in-one game, as well as face painting, story telling, Scottish food, vendors and carriage rides.
Gate fee is $10 for adults, $5 for children ages 6 to 12, and free for children younger than 6.
For information, call 412-867-1816 or visit www.alleghenyriverstone.org.
