Irish Arts & Entertainment, May 2016

Beltaine, 2016

VOLUME XXIII - ISSUE 5

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Southern California's Celtic Festival is Coming To Orange County United Scottish Society (USS) a non-profit organization Proudly Presents

New for 2016 If you haven’t been to the festival or are long time guests this year has exciting new features you don’t want to miss.

Alex Beaton Returns

Irish Whisky

In a non-performance appearance Alex returns to the festival that started his festival career.

Alex looks forward to seeing his fans and chatting with old friends.

The festival will offer an Irish Whisky as part of the premiere Whisky Tasting. The Irish Whisky will be part of the World Tasting that includes whiskies from Japan, England, USA, Scotland and Ireland

Heritage Stage The new stage will feature traditional music and entertainment such as harpers and fiddlers. Increasing the number of stages provides the opportunity to add more entertainment to the festival.

Beard & Moustache Contest

May 28th and 29th OC Fair & Event Center Daily 9am to 6pm The family friendly festival has the best of Scottish and Celtic entertainment and events from the sounds of bagpipes to crack’n Celtic music to men and women throwing heavy objects in the professional and amateur athletics to dancing to numerous children’s activities to sheep herding demos to the smells of authentic Celtic foods and the sights of the kilts.

Do you have a beard or mustache that you want to enter to be judged in the contest? Several categories to win: Mustache; Partial Beard; Full Beard (beards over and under 12 inches).

Irish Coffee Contest With the addition of Irish Whisky to the Whisky Tasting it makes sense to add Irish Coffee

Canadian Youth Pipe Bands The all youth world champion Robert Malcolm Memorial Pipe Bands from Canada are part of the World Class Pipe Band Contest .

Rock ‘N Piper Retired U.S. Marine Joel M. Daniel performs classic rock and modern pop songs transcribed to the GHB such as AC/DC, Lady Gaga, Journey, Fun, Joan Jet, and many others.

The 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing Band Returns to the F e s t i v a l

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Comedic Talent of Christopher You may know him as the Rusty Bawls Show, or as stilt character "McCloud", or his comical look at Contemporary Scottish Rock Musicians show, but no matter how you know him you always know you’ll be entertained.

A graduate of the Wellington Preforming Arts School in New Zealand, Christopher has performed on five different continents and no matter the age will win people’s hearts.

Christopher brings a comedic energy to his Edinburgh Festival like performances at the festival. Don’t miss him!

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Crack'n Celtic Music

al touring band since 1995.

Don't think this is dry, The 2016 music line-up at Scottish Fest is one of dusty music for museum the best in Southern California with all the favorshelves as the Wicked ites like Bad Haggis, Wicked Tinkers, Neil O'Neill, Tinkers merge the best of Sligo Rags, Highland Way, modern, almost rock-andand the Ploughboys. roll energy with the hypnotic, insistent grooves of The musical performances their Gaelic ancestors. span the spectrum of Celtic Rare is the bystander music from the troubadour who comes away without Neil O'Neill to the cutting-edge feeling a surprising, Celtic fusion with rock by Bad sometimes bewildering Haggis. connection to longThis will be the 17th year Bad forgotten primal emotions.

Haggis brings their hearing-is-believing sonic exThe whisky tavern stage is growing perience to festival. The band is led by “the most in popularity with the entertaining recorded piper of all time”, show, "Learn To Play the Bagpipes" Eric Riggler. A few of his

by John Allan. John masterfully credits are Outlander, blends comedy and music while Braveheart, Titanic, Men in providing insight to how one plays Black, and the Simpsons the bagpipe. Neil O’Neill is considplus he's in demand by ered one of the premiere Celtic singers and his studios from Hollywood to melodic voice contributes to the success of the Nashville to Abbey Road, whisky tavern stage. bringing the timeless, The new heritage haunting sonorities of stage features the the uilleann pipes, the melodic strings of Great Highland Bagthe Raggle Taggle pipe and whistle to auHarpers and the diences around the toe tapping driving world. force of fiddle muA festival favorite are the pioneers of the growing sic. Scottish Fest has some of the best fiddlers in Tribal Celtic movement. The Wicked Tinkers Southern California with performances by the have been playing haunting, heart-pounding bag- Scottish Fiddlers of Los Angeles. pipes and irresistible tribal drums as a profession- A strong entertainment line-up indeed!

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the Clans...

Shop, Shop and Shop

Vintage Cars

It would not be Scottish Fest without the heritage, vivid color, and pageantry the clans bring to the festival. With 70+ Scottish clans and organizations on hand, tracing your heritage can be a fulfilling experience of learning about the colorful and often bloody history.

If you love to shop then you'll love about 60 celtic vendors selling a wide variety of Celtic products at Scottish Fest . From a kilt, to sweets, to books and jewelry; from a sword to a sporran to a set of bagpipes it can all be purchased from the plethora of shops at Scottish Fest.

How many different makes of British Cars can you name?

Most people when they think of British Cars think MG, Healey, Jaguar, Aston Martin, Rolls Royce, Bentley and Mini. Although most of them have disappeared over time, there have been over 940 different British car makes and more than 75 Scottish car manufacturers. Stop by the Vintage Car display to see a variety of fine British automotive designs and engineering. The owners are always willing to talk about the cars.

The Clan is a concept which dates back to the 12th Century. While the word 'clan' is derived from the Gaelic 'clann', meaning family or children, not everyone in the same clan is related to each other. It's a common error that every person who bears a clan's name is a lineal descendant of the chiefs.

Find out more about your lineage at Scottish Fest.

Children’s Activities The festival is a family friendly event with a wide array of activities for all ages.

There will be activities such as children's athletics, inflatable jumpers, sheep herding demonstrations, face painting and archery.

They'll be plenty of products with tartan which is the symbolic national dress of Scotland after the Dress Act of 1746 banning the tartan and other aspects of Gaelic culture was repealed in 1782. The kilt is the most iconic use of tartan, but there is also the solid color Irish kilt and the more recent and practical utility kilt.

Professional Athletics Scottish Fest is a festival of champions with one of the only festivals in Southern California that has a Professional Class Athletic Championship in events such as the Caber Toss, Throwing the Weight, Putting the Stone and Hammer Throw. These championships are extremely physical, mentally challenging and exciting to watch.

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Dear Friends & Readers,

It is always an exciting time, more or less, if you are a Celt. I think Celts in general look upon our life and time as a bit of an adventure!

This time of year though, as all of the Fairs and Festival start to take place, always strikes me as a more exciting period than usual.

We hope you enjoy this issue and that we see you at our IRISH OUTREACH Booth at these upcoming events!

We are introducing our new offer at Scottish Fest USA, it is called the “VIP OFFER” Very Irish Person; you will be enrolled in our VIP Clubwhich gives you a monthly newsletter with Special Offers and Group Rates on Irish/Celtic Concerts, Irish Theatre, Films, Fairs and Festivals; Two for One Offers on meals at participatingPubs & Restaurants and a host of other VIP Discounts.

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Highland Dancing Championship Scottish Fest is proud to host the Western Regional Highland Dancing Championship that is a qualifier for the U.S. National Championship at the end of July in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The Western Region has a pedigree of winners at the Nationals and last year was no different with Erin Blair and Kaylee Finnegan winning Championship titles at last year's competition. They represented the Western Region that is comprised of Arizona. California, Hawaii and Nevada. Only at Scottish Fest will you see the top dancers in each age group qualify to compete at this year's National Championships.

Competing at the festival will be Erin Blair who won her second World Juvenile Champion title at the Cowel Games in Scotland last year.

Two sought after titles at the festival are the City of Edinburgh Medal awarded to the best dancer at Scottish Fest each year and the Robert Lyall Lowe Memorial Scholarship Award presented to the winner of a special Highland Fling event for any California dancer under the age of 7 New this year, you can learn some of the basic steps at the Highland Dancing Learning Experience. It will provide an opportunity to try some of the basic steps.

Come visit the dancers at Scottish Fest and join us on to watch the 2016 Championship competition in the Nan Daley Highland Dancing Pavilion.

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Plethora of Pipe Bands Galore Scottish Fest hosts the largest Pipe Band Championship in Southern California. with about 23 pipe bands planned to compete from Canada to states like Arizona, Utah and of course California.

Two bands connected to the Irish tradition will compete, Bushmills Irish Pipe Band and the LA Police Emerald Society Pipes and Drums. The LA Scots Grade I pipe band will also be performing daily.

The Scottish or Irish pipe band in its most common form consists of pipers playing the Great Highland Bagpipe (In Ireland known as the Great Irish War pipes), snare drummers, tenor drummers and usually a bass drummer.

The drum section is known collectively as the drum corps. The entire band is led by a pipe major and the drum corps is led by a drum sergeant.

The pipe band began in the military, but its origins are obscure, and historical records exist mostly in hints gleaned from contemporary regimental records that had no direct interest in pipes. It is known that pipers served in regiments from the earliest times; the Royal Scots have records referring to pipers dating back to the early seventeenth century.

The tunes played consists of music from the Scottish, Irish and Breton traditions, either in the form of traditional folk tunes and dances, or music that has been adapted for the pipes. Examples are marches, slow airs, jigs, reels, and strathspeys.

Competition is a focus for many pipe bands throughout the world during the spring to autumn period. Pipe bands are judged in three areas: bagpiping, drumming and ensemble (pipes and drums playing together).

In addition to the band competitions Scottish Fest is home to the largest solo field in Southern California with over 150 piping and drumming competitors from the novice to professional class in a variety of music types such jigs, hornpipes, reels and marches.

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Irish Whisky Added to P r e m i e r e W h i s k y Ta s t i n g at Scottish Fest

ing barrel, instead of being created by blending together the contents of various barrels to provide uniformity of color and taste. Even whiskies that are not blends may be combined from Over the past several years Scottish Fest has built more than one batch, or even from differing its Whisky Tasting into one of the finest in Southern years to achieve their consistency.

California by combining a unique hard to find varie- Cask strength is a term used in whisky-making ty of premium whiskies along with a knowledgea- to describe the level of alcohol-by-volume and ble and entertaining whisky master, Chris Uhde. cask strength whiskies are usually not diluted Chris is also the founder of the Southern Califor- by water in production. nia Whisky Club.

In addition to the Around the World flight of whiskies, the Beauty of Cask Strength Whisky flight features the "Speyside Whisky of the Year"- Whisky Advocate Magazine - Tamdhu Batch Strength Edition 117.6 proof. Surrounding this fine whisky are five others including a 28yr Exclusive Malts Caledonian Single Cask.

New this year to the festival’s premium offering of tastings is a selection of whiskies from around the world. The new offering includes a 10yr Irish Single Malt, two Japanese whiskies, a triple smoke single malt from the United States, a cask strength whisky from England and rounding out the selection is the Exclusive Malts Glen Keith 19yr from Scotland Whisky tasting is the analysis of whisky through aroma, visual examination and taste.

Single cask is a premium class of whisky in which each bottle comes from an individual ag-

This year’s premium tasting is a Cask limited edition of Scotch Whiskies with a retail price for these bottles of over $1,000 combined. Leading the flight is the 42yr Exclusive Malts Invergordon Single Cask whisky. Three of the remaining five whiskies are 19yr old or better. Truly and exceptional flight of whiskies that can’t be missed.

To taste whisky at the festival visit the popular Whisky Tavern. Purchase a dram from a variety of select whiskies at the bar or join the premiere tasting sessions offered daily. The tastings sell out every year so reserve your space now on our website. * Because of the limited nature of these items, the malts are subject to change without notice.

Tasty Celtic Fare and Drink The Scottish are not known for their cuisine, but there's a variety of scrumptious Celtic food to try at the festival including haggis.

Haggis is considered the national dish of Scotland as a result of Robert Burns' poem, Address to a Haggis of 1787.

Ever wanted to try haggis or at least be able to say you did? Or maybe you're a lover of haggis. Whatever the case the festival offers traditional haggis either with or without a dram splash.

If haggis is not on your food "bucket list" the festival offers a variety of other scrumptious Celtic fare like corned beef sandwiches, Fish ‘N Chips, bangers and meat pies.

New this year is an assortment of tasty pies like Chicken Chili Verde, Lamb Curry, Macaroni and Cheese, and Cajun Spice.

There's also a variety of American fare.

The selection of beers is broad and ranges from Guinness to Belhaven.

Pageantry of the Drum Majors

Sword Training

by KRON

One of the highlights of the festival is the Drum Major Championship that features some of the best drum majors in the U.S. Also, the world Class Drum Majors lead the 500 plus pipers and drummers daily in the awe inspiring Mass Bands.

Go back in time and learn the technique of sword fighting.

All ages welcome to battle if you dare!

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Salute to Veterans

LA Police Emerald Society Pipes & Drums

The festival offers active, retired and veteran military personnel free admittance with a valid military ID. "It's the least we can do.

These courageous men and women do so much for us each and every day...to offer free entry is a small token of appreciation", proclaims the Chieftain.

One of the bands that will be competing and performing at Scottish Fest will be the Los Angeles Police Emerald Society Pipes and Drums (LAPES). The band was established in 1992 as a non -profit, multi-agency organization with the objective of fostering goodwill among the members of the numerous law enforcement communities. The band was founded by two Los Angeles Police Emerald Society members, Scott Walton, a detective with LAPD, and Steve Kirby, a retired LAPD detective. Scott is currently the Pipe Major of the band.

The 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing Band will perform both days at the festival including performances with the mass bands. "We are pleased to have the brilliant musicianship of the band be a part of the 2016 festival", Chieftain Tom Reoch Jr. stated in an exclusive interview.

On Sunday morning there's an opportunity to remember those that made the ultimate sacrifice at the Memorial Service officiated

by Navy Chaplain Lt. Ted Leenerts (Ret). In addition, we give thanks to veterans for their service at the daily Salute to Veterans and Scottish Clan March Program.

Again this year several members of the Marine band will showcase more of their talent when their rock band takes to the Beaton Stage. A festival moment to remember.

VIP Experience Ever wanted to be treated like a King or Queen? Now's your opportunity with two great value VIP packages; the Chairman and the Chieftain. You can sit and have a complimentary pint and Celtic food, amongst the action and sounds of the festival at the House of the VIP private area in the Whisky Tavern. Depending on the package selected there's complimentary t-shirts, polo shirts, parking, whisky, admittance to the festival and much more...

The band wears the All Ireland Green Tartan. In addition, many aspects of the bands uniform are more than decoration like the harp on the sporran, but none more meaningful than their bag custom made pipe covers .

The bagpipe covers were selected to pay tribute and honor the memory of Policeman Ian James Campbell. Ian was a life-long bagpipe player. On March 10, 1963, while on duty, Ian was murdered. The movie The Onion Field told his story. Scottish Fest is proud to be the home of the Ian Campbell trophy that is awarded in solo piping.

USS Chairman, Ron Cody, is a tenor drummer in the band.

Come see the band compete and perform both days.

Visit the Website to Purchase a VIP Package or Discount Tickets www.scottishfest.com At Gate Ticket Price

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$25 $22 $4 Free Free

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Happy Beltane and Hooray, Hooray the First of May!

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Legends and Lore by True Thomas the Storyteller There are few cultures that are inspired by nature as the Celts. Even in ancient times, the amount of nature poetry and the linkage of their spiritual beliefs and connection with nature is incredible.

Read any of their early poetry and look at the transformations to animals, the symbology of plants (in Ogham among others) and you can see their deep reverence. Later, this love of nature went on influence their art, music, and Christian beliefs as well.

Many early cultures, especially in Northern Europe were close observers of the seasons and the astronomical indicators. In those times, it was critical for survival to be able to judge when spring would come, animal migrations would happen, and know the times for planting. The long cold days would pass, spring would come, and then finally Summer, glorious summer. They recognized these points in their year as the following Holy days: Samhain on November 1 was New Year’s Eve, considered the beginning of the Dark time.

Imbolc arrived February 1, bringing in Spring, new grass, and lambs at the milking. Beltane on May 1 was the time for Summer celebrations. And Lughnasadh on August 1 launched the beginning of the Harvest season. Beltane is halfway between the spring equinox and the summer solstice, just as Lughnasadh is halfway between summer solstice and autumn equinox.

Beltane is mentioned in some of the earliest Celtic literature. This is the time when the cattle were driven out to the pastures and celebrations were scheduled. It was considered possibly the most important of the four. Bonfires were lit and the cattle would be driven between them, to protect them magically, and to drive away disease and evil spirits. People would leap over the bonfires, and then the ashes were used for rituals. In fact, to this day, Bonfires are lit on May Day still in many Celtic countries and various other lands as well (Nordic, Germanic, and even English). Beltane was a time when the white hawthorn plants bloomed, a feast was held, homes and buildings were decorated, and even cattle themselves were adorned. Yellow flowers that inspired the look of fire—such as primrose, rowan, gorse, and others— were gathered. And young couples would head to the woods to gather garlands and to celebrate (ahem) fertility. Offerings were made for the aos si/ daoine sith, the spirits of nature/ancestors/gods, also

considered the Fay. The Bonfire tradition still continues in Limerick and Claire in Ireland.

Beltane is also considered a good time for handfastings. Flowering bushes, called May Bushes, were brought into cities and decorated by the neighborhoods, and occasionally swiped by rival neighborhoods.

Some traditions like the burning of the wicker man have passed, but some odd things still hang about, like the making of a special oat cake, in Scotland. A bit of ash is placed in it and, then the cake is divided and distributed blindfolded. The person who gets the burnt bit is obligated to jump the bonfire three times.

This may have an ancient link to sacrifices to the fire, but those days are thankfully long gone.

In Scotland, the nights of these four ancient holy days might be when you see the Seelie or Unseelie, the Nobles of the Faerie courts, moving to their new Summer or Winter Homes. If you see the fairy host ride, it’s considered very bad luck to draw attention to yourself. Very. Bad. Luck.

Other countries still celebrate this key point in the cycle of the seasons, often called May Day. And in some places it is still tradition to secretly leave baskets of sweet smelling flowers to celebrate a May Queen, have local Morris Dancing, and to dance around a May Pole. The Maypole in many countries has folks dancing around it, and it is said to be a symbol to invoke fertility and prosperity.

Even our friend William Shakespeare knew that May Day was a powerful night when mischief and magic happened. In a “Midsummer’s Night Dream” Puck, that most clever of Fairies, has put the couples aright by the morning of May Day. Likewise, in the movie “Camelot” there is a lovely bit of Dialogue between King Arthur and Sir Lancelot, when Lancelot demands a quest. King Arthur has to tell him that the court has gone chasing flowers and amorous pursuits. Says Lancelot: Knights? Gathering FLOWERS? Replies Arthur: Well, SOMEONE has to do it!

If you would like to hear an Irish song that possibly has very ancient roots, I would like to recommend you go online and google the song “Samradh Samradh”, (Summer, Summer) or “Thugamar Féin

an Samhradh Linn” (We bring Summer with us) and you’ll find several versions of it. Look for the less ornate ones and the ones where they sing the words. It is one of the prettiest melodies in all of Irish folk music. Part of the lyrics (loosely translated to English) go like this.

“Mayday doll, maiden of Summer Up every hill and down every glen, Beautiful girls, radiant and shining, We have brought Summer in with us.”

So, next Mayday, light the fires, fill cups, and celebrate the beginning of summer, and don’t forget a wee bit of an offering for the good folk. Celebrating traditions that link us to the natural world, is a fine Celtic Tradition. – True True Thomas the Storyteller is a traditional spoken word storyteller, who specializes in Celtic and other traditional myths, legends, and folktales. He is also a ULC Minister and is available for classes on Celtic Lore, Fairy Lore, and Storytelling. www. truethomas.com or on Facebook as True Thomas the Storyteller.

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IRISH ECHO Honors John Richards With “Irish Community Champions Award” for 2016

Irish American Business Network (IABN) founder and Orange County resident John Richards has been selected by the largest Irish American newspaper in the US, New York’s IRISH ECHO as the recipient of one of its Irish Community Awards for his outstanding efforts in first founding the IABN and then fostering the dynamic growth of the organization and membership.

KUDOS and congratulations to Richards for this well deserved award from all of his friends and associates in the Southern California Chapter of IABN; we are all very fortunate to know and associate with him our local Irish Champion Networker!

An Awards Dinner at Rosie O’Grady’s, at The Manhattan Club in NY will be held on Friday, May 20.

Local members are invited to attend the next SoCal IABN Meet Up at Muldoon’s Irish Pub in Newport Beach on Saturday, June 4 starting at 3PM, Our esteemed national founder John Richards will be in attendance.

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Film Review: My Name is Emily Leaves Poetry in Its Wake

By Caitlyn Johnston, MBA Brought to us by the Newport Beach Film Festival, this stunning Irish film is truly a must-see. True-to-form as a contemporary salon, this festival greeted attendees with lilting harp and dapper fellow Celts. And as the house lights went down, it became evident… Evanna Lynch does it again!

While the name of this movie is as unassuming and unpretentious as its powerful superstar, My Name is Emily is rich with classical literary themes. The plot is, as with most classics, simple and profound: A teenage girl’s life is up-ended by her father’s mental illness and she fights to reconnect with him and regain the closeness they’d shared when she was growing up.

Enlisting the help of a not-so-secret admirer (George Webster) to reknit the loose ends in her life, Emily embarks upon a road trip through the Irish countryside. Together they befuddle the cops, out-muscle violent thugs, and charm their way into a mental health facility. While the overall tone of the movie is dark, it’s been billed as horror, which is incorrect.

It has intense moments, but in true Celtic spirit, it also finds the humor in tough situations, and the movie ends on a positive and fulfilling note. My Name is Emily is a must-see.

Beautifully written, a leit motif of water and rebirth brings poetry rd to the plot as Emily fights to come 43 Annual up for air - the perfect and apt San Diego Scottish Highland Games metaphor for her struggle to find with her foster parents and new & Gathering of the Clans school. Those who decry this as a June 25 & 26, 2016 “chick flick” do a great disservice to the emotional intelligence and 9:00 AM ∙ 5:00 PM ∙Both Days intellectual maturity of men. This Entertainment Opening Ceremonies masterpiece by Simon Fitzmaurice Featuring: at noon each day is of the same caliber as anything Highland Way Hemingway has written.

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From Foods to Arts & Crafts Massed Bagpipe Bands Scottish Athletics Highland Dance Competition Drum Major Bag Piping & Drumming Competitions Sheepdog Trials Scottish Country Dancing Kids’ Area Child ID Program Educational Classes

Closing Ceremonies

with Massed Pipe Bands at 4:45 pm each day Tickets on sale at the gate Adults $15 Seniors(62+)/Military $10 Children over 6 $5 www.sdhighlandgames.org 760-726-3691 or 619-884-3157 Cell: 760-505-5254 SDSHGChief@sbcglobal.net Brengle Terrace Park 1200 Vale Terrace Drive Vista, CA 92084

Brought to us by the Newport Beach Film Festival, a marvelous time was had by all after the film.

The lively gathering made its way to Muldoon’s Irish Pub, next door to the theater. Emily is almost the antithesis of Luna.

If My Name is Emily is indicative of things to come, Simon Fitzmaurice is a director and writer to watch for, Evanna Lynch will continue to inspire and challenge us, and George Webster and Michael Smiley will continue making big waves on the big screen. This winning team leaves our minds dripping in poetry.

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Welcome Back Alex Beaton Scottish Fest USA will have a very special guest later this month when Alex Beaton will be in attendance and scheduled to make personal appearances to meet fans.

Beaton is one of the all time best and favorite Scottish Balladeers and headliner at Scots Fest in Costa Mesa (and all around the US and Scotland) for many years. Beaton’s masterful voice and repoitior of Irish and Scottish tunes delighted fans and friends until illness sidetracked his vigorous performance and tour schedule a few years ago. Beaton’s determination to come back and to battle for his health is a testament to the strength and character of this brilliant artist. Beaton is an inspiration to everyone and this appearance thanks to Scottish Fest USA will offer a rare and wonderful opportunity to see him. Please drop by and say hello!

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2016 43rd Annual San Diego Scottish Highland Games & Gathering of the Clans

June 25 & 26, 2016

9:00 AM ∙ 5:00 PM ∙Both Days

Entertainment Featuring: Highland Way The Angry Brians Molly’s Revenge Blackwaterside

Vendors of Everything Scottish:

From Foods to Arts & Crafts Massed Bagpipe Bands Scottish Athletics Highland Dance Competition Drum Major Bag Piping & Drumming Competitions Sheepdog Trials Scottish Country Dancing Kids’ Athletics Kids’ Area Child ID Program Opening Ceremonies at noon each day Closing Ceremonies with Massed Pipe Bands At 4:45 PM each day Get your tickets early!

Pre-sale prices: Adults: $13 per day Seniors & Military: $8 per day Youth 6 -16: $5 per day

www.sdhighandgames.org Phone: 760-726-3691 or 619-884-3157 Cell 760-505-5254 SDSHGChief@sbcglobal.net Brengle Terrace Park 1200 Vale Terrace Drive Vista, CA 92084

Make checks payable to SDSHG, Inc. Ticket orders must be postmarked

by June 10, 2016. Tickets will be mailed the second week in June.

Pre-sale tickets available on line at www.sdhighlandgames.org.

Please help the all-volunteer, non-profit SDSHG by enclosing a self-addressed stamped envelope enclosed with your ticket order. Mail ticket orders to San Diego Scottish Highland Games, PO Box 3682, Vista, CA 92085

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The Irish Contingent Sweeney Family Soda Bread: New This Year at Scottish Fest USA

Last June, at the Big Irish Fair in Long Beach, we had the good fortune to meet a new vendor there and found some of the most delicious Irish soda Bread that we have ever seen. The Sweeney family bakers use the tradtional ingredients and the family recipe that’s been handed down through five generation’s.

Kathleen Sweeney told us how the recipe was handed down to her, “Our granny was from a little town on the West Coast of Ireland in County Donegal. She was taught by her mother, and her mother was taught by her mother, and so on. Granny used a wood burning cast iron stove, later a cast iron oven and the ashes had to be swept out of her kitchen every day. She always had flour in her hair and on her face when we would come to visit. Our Mother Kathleen was the oldest of ten children which meant a lot of Irish bread everyday as a staple.

When our Mother came to America in the 1950’s to marry Johnny Sweeney who was also from Donegal, she brought the families Irish traditions with her.

Kathleen had six children, and she taught them the art of Irish cooking.

I can remember waking up to the smell of Irish soda bread cooking in the oven, and black pudding cooking on the stove most every day. Our family and friends came from all over to sit with her and talk about the old county, and have a cup of tea, Irish bread, and scones with butter and jam.

them close in our hearts and now we want to share them with you!”

CELTIC NETWORKING AT ITS FINEST So by more good fortune, Ron Cody mentioned that Scottish Fest USA was interested in bringing aboard a bit of an Irish Contingent this year to Costa Mesa so we were delighted to suggest the Sweeney Family to them.

Another IRISH CONTINGENT this year at the OC Fairgrounds and Event Center will be an Irish Celtic Arts Show with Adrien Rain Burke and Brian Boylan confirmed at press time.

More on this on our Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/Irish-ArtsEntertainment-208682315

We are proud of our traditions and want to keep

ART and PUB AFICIONADOS Are Invited Saturday, June 11 Starts @ 3:00pm

Pictured here is acclaimed Irish Artist Brian Boylan and Publican Willy O’Sullivan with the painting inspired by a photograph that has been hanging at O’Brien’s Pub for over 20 years! Boylan’s rendition is whimsically titled “First Communion” Join in the fun for an unveiling and celebration with complimentary appetizers and a NO HOST Bar. Bring along your story of your FIRST PINT to share with those in attendance. Meet the artist and join in for a grand afternoon of good craic!, food & libations! Signed prints will be available as well as a door prize drawing for a Boylan print!

O’Brien’s Irish Pub & Restaurant 2226 Wilshire Blvd.

Santa Monica (at 23rd. & Wilshire)

310/829-5303 www.obriensla.com

Open 7 Days a Week: Mon.—Fri. 11:45am-2am Sat.—Sun. 11am-2am

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The View from Ireland

Galway’s Rising Star

By Maurice Fitzpatrick

Someone who undoubtedly had mixed a pint of stout with a shot of Crème de menthe once suggested that Galway is the Paris of Ireland. Well, as the song has it: “I love Paris in the springtime. I love Paris in the Fall. I love Paris in the sunshine. I love Paris in the rain”. And Galway too is loveable in all weathers.

Galway City has long represented an alternative for people to the rackety, pressured life of Dublin. The reputation that the city has of having a laid-back atmosphere is accurate: musicians and writers have traditionally found in Galway a place well attuned to their spirits.

Drop into Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, located on one of Galway’s quiet, medieval, streets on a Saturday morning. Trip over the history professors browsing the new deluxe editions and, deeper into the shop, in the second hand section, meet the hungry students vigorously thumbing books, the budget for which they have regrettably drunk. The whole shop rises to rafters with accumulated knowledge, recondite books, great classics retold in Irish for children and a repository of Connemara poetry and song now thankfully collected and available to the public.

Walk along the narrow streets of Nun’s Island— where James Joyce’s future wife, Nora, was reared— that leads to Galway’s imposing Catholic Cathedral.

Cripplingly expensive and ostentatious, and partly built with funds from the Diocese of Massachusetts, the cathedral was out of step with the people when it was erected in the mid 1960s.

The President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, is an honorary Galway man. Though his roots are in County Clare, it was in Galway where he lectured on politics and sociology, where he was returned as a TD in General Elections and where he appreciated the need for an Irish language television channel which he helped to steer through the Dail. Galwegians do not forget his contribution to their city and county. One of his more noteworthy

PAGE 19 students at NUI Galway, the lyricist of The Saw Doctors, wrote a song about it: “We got Michael D. rocking in the Dail for us/ Michael D rocking in the Dail”—which can be rewritten, now that Michael D is rocking in the Aras.

The secret of Galway’s success is its university.

Galway has an ever expanding, fully functional, twelve months a year (with facilities for summer events to fill the university summer hiatus), selfrespecting university that is the de facto destination for students all over Connaught and beyond. It has become the dynamo of the city whose population is 75,000, more than a quarter of whom are students.

Cork is sustained by enormous pharmaceutical plants and Dublin today has 40% of Ireland’s Gross Domestic Product. But an exposed, wind-swept city like Galway needs a solid stay against economic instability, and that is what the National University of Ireland in Galway has become. NUI Galway also brings students from as far away as Donegal and Derry in droves. As Donegal historian, Breandán Mac Suibhne, put it: “The burghers of Galway cannot believe their luck. They now have a public holiday, Donegal Day, to celebrate money being spent on the Corrib that might be spent on the Foyle.”

The citizenry, businesses and organisational committees of Galway are working hard to secure the city’s bid for the City of Culture award in 2020.

A perfect vision. Galway is certainly a contender: its music, film and theatre and scenes are growing and deserve to be bolstered by the investment and attention that such an accolade brings. Galway can and should look to Derry’s City of Culture 2013 successes and learn from its organisational mishaps.

Unlike Derry, when it started in its bid, the facilities are already built in Galway to nurture music and theatre talent as Garry Hynes’ theatre legacy in the Druid particular and the consistently good gigs at The Roisin Dubh attest. In film, however, Galway needs more support. While the Galway Film Festival is very notable and the Irish Film Board is

co-headquartered in Galway, in practice most of the film board’s business happens in Dublin. A new studio is under construction in County Galway which is promising; the success of films such as Poitin

Tigh Chóilí Traditional Irish Pub Location is along a lane between Lombard Street & Shop Street and Calvary, show that the west of Ireland deserves to become a de facto definition for film production.

That requires money. Galwegians could put film at the centre of its agenda for artistic growth.

Over the past decades the Galway pub that has not renamed itself, translating from English to Irish, is the exception. “Fox’s Pub” became “Tigh Fox” and so forth. The propensity to name one’s business in the Irish language was not attended by a growth in the routine use of Irish. It was, instead, a very successful tourist lure: traditional Galway, last bastion of Ireland’s ancestral culture, lore and language etc. Galway became more intensely associated with the trappings of the Irish language even while it became less the home of the language itself. That is unfortunate for the town. Similarly, the handsome statue of Pádraic Ó Conaire, once the centrepiece of Eyre Square, has been transported to Galway City Museum, substantially less in the public’s view. Ó Conaire’s brilliant short stories in Irish are now read less and less; his disappearance from Galway City’s main park is sadly symbolic.

Watch the way in which the buskers enliven Shop Street with their amazing array of instruments, blending Irish trad with African beats and Guns n’ Roses. Their guitar cases fill up coins, their CDs do not sell. They get the passing public’s attention but short shrift from the elements as they need to pack up again—rain. While some parts of Ireland have four seasons in one day, Galway is capable of four seasons is a quarter of an hour. The gentle drizzle besets the city yet again. It rains in this city almost 300 days of the year. But I love Galway in the rain.

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Eugene O’Neill’s

‘Hairy Ape’ at Odyssey Theatre Eugene O’Neill’s 1922 expressionist play The Hairy Ape, is now being staged at West L.A.’s Odyssey Theatre.(See Calendar this issue)

“This play is a hymn for the working man that shows O’Neill at his most powerful, both as a wordsmith and as a creator of extraordinary plots,” says Director Steven Berkoff (also a British actor). “It’s a very humanistic piece and exciting. I don’t think there has been another play like it.”

Katy Davis, a native Dubliner, Katy is a graduate of The Gaiety School of Acting, Ireland. Her onscreen credits there include the role of “Jean” opposite Andrew Scott in IFTA nominated thriller Dead Bodies and both seasons of the TV comedy sketch show “STEW”. On stage Katy has performed all across Ireland with some of her favourite credits including the World Premiere of Homeland and the Irish and US Tour of The Playboy of the Western World (The Abbey, National Theatre of Ireland), The European Premiere of Lars Von Trier’s The Idiots (Dublin Theatre Festival) and Lady Windermere’s Fan (Gate Theatre). An established voiceover artist Katy works both on radio and TV, most recently narrating an episode of E’s The Soup with Joel McHale. Katy created the role of Mildred Douglas in the Irish premiere of The Hairy Ape as part of The Cork Midsummer Festival and is delighted to reprise the role here at the Odyssey Theatre with Steven Berkoff. www.katy-davis.com

O’Neill’s harrowing critique of class stratification is the story of Robert “Yank” Smith, a brutish ship laborer who searches for a sense of belonging in a world controlled by the wealthy elite. As head coal stoker on an ocean liner, Yank is in his element: he rules his dark, smoky world. But when the pale, spoiled daughter of the ship’s owner visits the engine room for a thrill, she is at once repulsed and terrified

by Yank and what she sees there. Half in love with the unattainable and half blinded by rage, the bewildered Yank blunders violently through Manhattan seeking revenge and trying to understand his place on “de oith.”

“This play is a hymn for the working man that shows O’Neill at his most powerful, both as a wordsmith and as a creator of extraordinary plots,” says Berkoff. “It’s a very humanistic piece and exciting. I don’t think there has been another play like it.”

“The Hairy Ape has haunted me since my college days – especially the unexpected and beautifully surreal ending,” agrees Odyssey artistic director Ron Sossi.

“What a fortunate pairing is this O’Neill minimasterpiece with the wildly inventive theatrical mind of renowned British actor/writer/director Steven Berkoff.

The Hairy Ape was first produced in 1922 by the Provincetown Players, a theatrical group co-founded

by O’Neill. By this time, he was already an established playwright, having won two Pulitzer Prizes, but the expressionist style of The Hairy Ape represented a departure for him. The New York Times called it “a bitter, brutal, wildly fantastic play of nightmare hue and nightmare distortion… so vital and interesting and teeming with life that those playgoers who let it escape them will be missing one of the real events of the year.” The Hairy Ape’s strong condemnation of the dehumanizing effects of industrialization made it appealing to many labor groups and unions, which seized upon its concepts to further their cause for better working conditions. In the years since its debut, the play has become recognized as a distinctive exploration of a pivotal period in American society.

The Odyssey production stars Hailé D’Alan (upcoming feature film Frozen Peas) as Yank and Irish actress Katy Davis as Mildred, a part she played in the Irish premiere at the Midsummer Festival in Cork. The ensemble features Laurence Olivier Award-winning actor Benjamin Davies as well as Joseph Gilbert, Jeremiah O’Brian, Andres Ramacho, Anthony Rutowicz, Paul Stanko and Jennifer Taub.

Set design is by Christopher Scott Murillo; lighting design is by Katelan Braymer; sound design is by Christopher Moscatiello and features percussionist Will Mahood; costume design is by Halei Parker; and prop design is by Chad Lieske. The stage manager is Savannah Harrow, and Beth Hogan produces for Odyssey Theatre Ensemble.

ART and PUB AFICIONADOS Are Invited Saturday, June 11 Starts @ 3:00pm

Pictured here is acclaimed Irish Artist Brian Boylan and Publican Willy O’Sullivan with the painting inspired by a photograph that has been hanging at O’Brien’s Pub for over 20 years! Boylan’s rendition is whimsically titled “First Communion” Join in the fun for an unveiling and celebration with complimentary appetizers and a NO HOST Bar. Bring along your story of your FIRST PINT to share with those in attendance. Meet the artist and join in for a grand afternoon of good craic!, food & libations! Signed prints will be available as well as a door prize drawing for a Boylan print!

O’Brien’s Irish Pub & Restaurant 2226 Wilshire Blvd.

Santa Monica (at 23rd. & Wilshire)

310/829-5303 www.obriensla.com

Open 7 Days a Week: Mon.—Fri. 11:45am-2am Sat.—Sun. 11am-2am

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www.muldoonspub.com Saturday, June 11 Starts @ 3:00pm Reception and Unveiling Celebration with Irish Artist Brian Boylan hosted by Publican Willy O’Sullivan and O’Brien’s Irish Pub and Restaurant on Wilshire (at 23rd.) in Santa Monica See advert this issue www.obriensla.com Monday, June 16 Starts @ 7:30pm Bloomsday Celebration at The Hammer Museum Seventh annual Bloomsday celebration features dramatic readings of episodes in James Joyce’s Ulysses and live songs—including the debut of a commissioned work by Patrick Gutman based on a quotation from W. B. Yeats in Ulysses that

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