Kansas City Scottish Highland Games Festival
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The Kansas City Star today highlights this coming weekend’s Scottish Highland Games.
In what is the area’s biggest Scottish heritage festival, the 29th annual Kansas City Scottish Highland Games moves to the Northland this year after several at the Wyandotte County Fairgrounds.
We’re trying to get the Scottish community built up, kind of like the Irish said one of the organizers. You’re thinking of steroids, aren’t you?
Liberty resident Paul Peterman and others will re-enact medieval combat. It’s something that’s in my blood and has been my entire life, he said, which would appear to rule out blood doping.
The first time I watched a tractor pull, I couldn’t stop. The Scottish Highland Games are like that, only with multiple events, and kilts.
And then there’s rather an impressive festival of Celtic music, including Weel Gaun Wheelie, Tullamore, Hazel Whyte, Rowan, Ellis Island, and of course the ubiquitous Elders.
See also:
• The Hairdressers Guide to Information Technology #6
• Scottish Party in England
• CeltFest Moves Islands
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