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Friday, August 26, 2011
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Saturday, August 27, 2011
9:00 AM - 11:00 PM

 
   

The 6th Annual

Jamestown Regional Celtic Festival

&
Gathering of the Clans


Will be held on Saturday
9 AM till 11 PM


on the grounds of the

Mayville Lakeside Park
Mayville, New York

The Festival was a huge success last year and we looking forward to a bigger festival this year in Mayville, New York.

New Open to the Public!!

OPENING
"KICK OFF PARTY!!"

FRIDAY EVENING AUGUST 26, 2011
FROM 7:00 PM till 11:00 PM

Everyone is Welcome No Cover Fee

Celtic Music Group "Step-IN-Time"
Monte & Marcia Jones from Youngstown, New York
There will be food and beverages for sale.

Don't miss out, this is our first kick off party!!


SO PLEASE KEEP OPEN

FRIDAY AUGUST 26
&
SATURDAY AUGUST 27, 2011


MARKED ON YOUR CALENDARS.

No Admission for
Friday's Events in
Beer & Wine Garden

Saturday

Festival Admission: $8 donation
Children 12 and under: free
Tickets available at the Gates

Remember !!!
If you get a post card in the mail for from a friend it is worth $1.00 off each admission donation for up to 4 people but only if you bring it to the festival grounds...

The post cards will be mailed to people who are currently on our mailing list, and passed out at all the parades & festivals that the 96th Highlanders will be performing in.

If you wish to get on our mailing list Email: Doug Clark.

Please watch the road signs along Route 394 around the festival area for the following:

*Free Parking w/Shuttle Bus Service
*Handicap Parking Available
*Wheelchair Accessible
*Free Festival Program
*Bring your favorite lawn chair

Handicap Parking & Wheelchair entrance will be at the Tennis Court Parking lot at Mayville Lakeside Park.



   
     

 

  2011 Major Sponsors  
 


We would like to thank all our 2010 Sponsors:

 

Cummins logo Cummins Engine Plant Jamestown

 

 

Media Group One Radio Stations

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a Downtown Jamestown Development Corporation


 

Chautauqua Region Community Foundation

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a Webb's' Captain Table Restaurant
                                 Mayville, New York

 

 

a United Refining Company
                                           Warren, Pennsylvania



a Franz & Russell
                                                 Jamestown, New York

 
     



  Schedule  
  PIPE BANDS  
 

Pipe Band Schedule 2011

               9:30 AM – 10:00 AM  & 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM –  96th Highlanders Pipes & Drums
             10:00 AM – 10:20 AM  & 2:00 PM – 2:20 PM –  Trinity Episcopal Pipes & Drums
             10:20 AM – 10:40 AM  & 2:30 PM – 2:50 PM –  City of Thorold Pipe Band
             10:40 AM – 11:00 AM  & 3:00 PM – 3:20 PM –  MacKenzie Highlanders Pipes & Drums
             11:00 AM – 11:20 AM  & 3:30 PM – 3:50 PM –  Lochaber Pipe Bands
             11:20 AM – 11:40 AM  & 4:00 PM – 4:20 PM –  Caledonian Pipes & Drums
             11:40 AM – 12:00 AM  & 4:30 PM – 4:50 PM –  87th Cleveland Pipe Band

                                               Massed Bands Will Be:
 
                          12:30 PM – Opening Ceremony & 5:00 PM – Closing Ceremony

The list of the 7 Pipe Bands attending this years festival is listed below. It is a great list of pipe bands so you will not want to miss their performances. Each Pipe Band will be playing two 20 minute concerts, one in the morning and one in the afternoon plus two Massed Bands .

If you have been unfortunate enough to have missed the last five festivals you will not want to miss this years festival. We will be having a CEILIDH starting at 7:00 PM . A Ceilidh (Kay-Lee) is a party after the festival featuring Lochside Celtic Band and will take place in the Beer & Wine Garden. Another special feature will be the circling of the Pipe Bands, who are still around, to play a few of your favorite Scottish Pipe Tunes. This will be a very exciting event you will not want to miss. Rain or Shine the Ceilidh will take place under the big tent.

 

 
 

OPENING CEREMONIES & CLOSING CEREMONIES

 
 


Opening Ceremonies: 12:30 PM

Featuring all Seven Pipe Bands and the Gathering of the Clans and Scottish Heavy Athletes. Presentation of Colors by the United States Marine Corps for the playing of the national anthems.

Closing Ceremonies: 5:00 PM

Featuring all Seven Pipe Bands and the Gathering of the Clans and presentation of the Scottish Heavy Athletic Competition.

CEILIDH: 7:00 PM till 11:00PM

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  CELTIC MUSIC GROUPS  
 

Celtic Music Groups Beer & Wine Garden Stage

                      10:00 AM  –    1:30 PM – Celtic Creek   (Warren Pa.)

                              1:30 PM  –    3:00 PM – Step – IN – Time   (Youngstown, NY)

                              3:00 PM   –   5:00 PM – MacPherson Rant  (Ontario, Canada)

                              5:00 PM   –   7:00 PM – Ischabaha  (Erie, Pennsylvania)

                              7:00 PM   – 11:00 PM – Lochside Celtic Band  (Niagara Falls, NY)

                                  Ceilidh (Kay-Lee) Featuring Lochside Celtic Band

     Plan on staying for more Celtic Music and food following the closing ceremonies!

Celtic Music & Celtic Dancers
in the Festival Grounds

Charlie Zahm

Will be performing all day in the Festival Grounds

 

Olean Area Irish Dancers

Will perform in the Festival Grounds

Look for the 20 X 40 Tent with the Stage in it!

 

 

 
  If You would like to Volunteer !!
 
 

Jobs include:

Ticket sellers - Security - Band Ushers - Beer Tent

Shirt Tent - Scottish Auction Tent

FRIDAY, AUGUST 26

People to help set up tents, get the tables & Chairs from various places around the county. Basically set up various aspects of the festival. Lunch will be provided.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 27

We will need volunteers to work various areas of the festival, ticket tents, beer tent,
kids' area, parking cars in parking lot just to name a few jobs available.
Keeping the area free of trash during the festival.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 28

We will need volunteers to take down tents, collect all tables and chairs and help return them to their rightful owners. Police area for trash.

Lunch on all Three days is provided by the festival.

Our special thanks to all who volunteered in 2010.

If you would like to be a festival volunteer contact:

Doug Clark at:
814-323-7360 Cell
Email Address: drummer_ dc@hotmail.com



 
 

CEILIDH

7:00 PM till 11:00PM

 
  


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Lochside Celtic Band will be our featured Ceilidh Band again this year! they really rocked last year and everyone there loved their music. Band will be performing 6PM till 11:00PM

So stay after the Festival Closing Ceremonies and come to the Beer & Wine Garden for our CEILIDH!!

 
     

  Celtic Vendors  
   

The Celtic Cottage
www.celticcottageny.com
Featuring Celtic Jewelry

Roberta Peterson's Wood Roses

Classic Irish Imports

www.classicirishimports.com

Enchanted Shire
Featuring Celtic Jewelry, gift ware

Lords of the Seas
Irish & Scottish: Items, Note Cards, embroidered towels,
whisker glasses and water crystal jugs
Email Lord of the Seas

96th Highlanders - Shirt Tent

The Rams Horn
www.ramshornstudio.com
Featuring Pewter Celtic Jewelry, and live Black Faced Sheep

 

Beaded Forest
hand-turned wood with in laid beadwork
Contact Anne Jackson


Many more vendor this year come see what there is to buy!!!

Scottish Auction!!

New This year a Scottish Auction in the Information tent. Come see what there is to bid on and help support the festival All proceeds go to the running of the festival. Costs have risen this year and every little bit helps. Thanks for your support in making this a great festival.



Arts and Crafts Vendors

   
     

  Food Vendors  
 

Be sure you come Hungry you won't want to miss the great food!!

Sandee's Bakery & Deli
meat pies, shepard's pie, corned beef & cabbage dinner,
famous italian sausage, hamburgers, Pop
Contact Robi Foti

InFamous Welsh Cookie Company
you will not want to miss this vendor
Contact Pete Browne

SONS of AMVETS Post 726 Famous
Chicken & Ribs Barbeque


Franklin's Kettle Corn & Kettle French Fries
www.franklinshandcream.com

Snack Shack - Camp Street UMC
Hot Dogs, Water - Pop - Gatorade - Small Snacks
Contact Karen LaMar

Beer & Wine Garden
on Tap
Guinness - Smethwicks - Bud Light
Merritt Estate Wine
Pop & Water



   
     

  Dancers
Olean Area Irish Dancers
Olean, N. Y.
Scottish Highland Heavy Athletic Competition Scottish Highland
Dancers
 




Celtic Music
Celtic Creek
Jim & Beth McQustin

www.celticcreek.com
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Step In Time
Marcia & Monte Jones

www.stepintimemusic.com
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Ischabaha
Erie, Pennsylvania
Contact Jim Tometsko or Sue Tillotson

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Ischabaha is a roots oriented Celtic folk band. Their music includes
acoustic arrangements of traditional and contemporary Celtic music,
as well as folk and original compositions.
The group known for its rich harmonies and instrumental arrangements,
was formed in 1999 and brings together 20 years of musical experience.


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Charlie Zahm
www.charliezahm.com

Charlie Zahm is one of the most popular soloists at Celtic music festivals, Maritime and Early American music events anywhere east of the Mississippi. With a baritone voice some have described as "coming along once in a generation," Charlie has become one of the most successful performers on the Celtic festival circuit, weaving magical moments of Scottish and Irish history for the listener and viewer, with passion for the performance and a chosen repertoire pleasing to all members of the family. A master of the guitar as well, Charlie brings an authentic love and respect for the music he sings—and with dashes of humor and a light in his eyes, he will draw you into the stories of his songs!

McPherson's Rant
Contact Gene Oleskiw

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Winners of the Niagara Music Award World Group of the Year 2010, McPhereson's Rant has been playing together since 2001. Celtic Twist and the odd blues number.
The Group's harmonies are accompanied by a wide varity of intruments inclueding acoustic guitar, bass, keyboard, tenor banjo, fiddle, mandolin, whistles, bodhran drum, eletronic pipes, and Highland bagpipes.

McPherson's Rant appeared onCanadian national television in the North Bay Telethon and was honored with the judge's choice award for the
"Most Entertaining Performance".

The Rant is held togeether by the common thread of love for music and
enjoyment of a good time.

Further information is available at:
www.mcphersonsrant.ca

 

8 Pipe Bands
 

The sound of the Great Highland Pipes will be heard throughout the day

with the appearance of the following 8 Pipe Bands:

96th Highlanders
Jamestown, N. Y.

Mackenzie Highlanders
Niagara Falls, N. Y.


87th Cleveland Pipe Band
Cleveland, Oh.

Caledonian Pipes & Drums
Buffalo, N. Y.

Trinity Episcopal Pipes & Drums
Hamburg, N. Y.

City of Thorold Pipe Band
Ontario, Canada

Lochaber Pipe Band
Lorain, Ohio

One more Pipe Band T. B. A. later in May!

We look forward to having them all at this years festival!

Saturday August 27, 2011

MAYVILLE LAKESIDE PARK ON ROUTE 394

MAYVILLE, NEW YORK

 

 
 

  The Gathering of the Clans 2011  
 


Clan Barclay - Clan Blair - Clan Claus - Clan Donald - Clan Graham - Clan Grant

Clan Gunn - Clan Henderson - Clan Logan -Clan MacFarlane - Clan MacKenzie

Clan Mac Neil - Clan Montgomery - Clan Stewart - Clan Taggart - Clan Turnbull

New Clans are sending in there registration forms every day. Don't miss out send yours in today!


 
 
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2010 Clan Row along Chautauqua Lake


 
 

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Clans & Athletes at Opening Ceremonies 2010


 
 



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Opening Ceremonies 2010

 

 
 
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2010 We had Seven Pipe Bands - 13 Clans - Heavy Athletes


 
 
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Clans Marching off Opening Ceremonies


 
 

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Be sure to stop in and talk with the Clans,
who knows maybe you will find out how you could be a part of one of these great Clans.

 
     

  Scottish Heavy Athletics Competition  
 


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25 pound Stone Toss for Distance


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Caber Toss


 
 


56lb Weight Toss for Height

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Everyone Enjoys the Scottish Heavy Athlete's

 
 

 

Competition is Serious!

Competitors compete in Six Events:

  • Open Stone Throw According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the modern sport of shot put "derives from the ancient sport of putting the stone." The smooth river stones used weigh 16 pounds.

  • Weight Throw for distance Weights, attached to a ring and chain, are thrown three times-the longest counts.

             56 pound weight throws for distance
             28 pound weight throws for distance

  • Scottish Hammer Throw The Scottish hammer derives from the village blacksmith's hammer. The metal ball (16-22 pounds) is attached to a wooden handle. The competitor is not allowed to move his feet while throwing

  • Caber Toss (the log) This signature Highland event may have begun as a military exercise. There is no standard size for these tapered pine trunks, but they are generally 16-20 feet long and weigh up to 120 pounds. The object is to lift then toss the caber end-over-end so that it lands in the 12 o'clock position.

  • Sheaf Toss (pitchfork event) – A pitchfork is used to toss the16 pound bag of hay over a cross bar, which is raised 6 inches at a time. The winning toss is the highest one over the bar without knocking it

  • Weight Toss (for height) - The 56-pound weight is swung between the knees and tossed over the bar using only one hand. 

Each competitor has three attempts to achieve his personal best. There will be a winner of each event and an overall winner.

As for athlete line up: we will have a field of 10-15 athletes (that’s a full line up) 2 of which are females. A combination of amateurs and masters will be competing. As for the lineup, 2 of the athletes are highly ranked,   We also picked up local athletes from Jamestown who will be throwing in this year's competition. 

 

 

 
     
     

 


  DIRECTIONS TO FESTIVAL  
  FROM ERIE / PITTSBURGH / CLEVELAND    
 

Take I-90 East to Exit 60 Westfield Exit. Turn left onto Route 394 into Mayville, New York. Continue to follow Route 394 for 7 miles through Mayville towards Chautauqua Lake. Once you get to the bottom of the hill you will see the lake, follow the curve and the park will be on the left side of the road. Parking will be on the right side of the road.

Alternate Route from Erie and points east of Erie. Take I-90 East to I-86 East towards Jamestown. Get off at the Sherman Exit. Turn left and follow into Sherman to Stop sign. Turn right onto Route 430 and follow into Mayville. Where you will come to the traffic light in Mayville, turn right onto Route 394 and follow Route 394 till you see the lake, continue around bend and the festival will be on the left. Festival Parking will be on the right.

  From Buffalo  
  Take I-90 to Exit 60 Westfield Exit. Follow Route 394 as directed in the directions above.  
  From Olean  
  Follow I-86 West to the Sherman Exit. Turn right and go to stop sign. Turn right onto Rt-430 and follow this into Mayville. In Mayville you will come to a traffic light at the fire hall. Turn right onto Rt-394 and follow it through Mayville down the hill towards the lake. The park will be on the right side of the lake.  
  FROM WARREN PA  
  Take Rt-62 to Jamestown to I-86 West. Follow it to the Mayville/Lakewood exit. turn right onto Route 394 and follow Route 394 to Mayville. The festival will be on the right just before the bend leading to Mayville. Festival parking will be on the left side of the road.