Sunday,April 5th

2 PM - 5PM

Charly's Pub

It's time to show off

your Scottish Pride

and wear your

tartan! Music,

Haggis,Kilts &

more!Thanks a zillion!

It seems there is always something to be hugely thankful for! This time I want to thank EVERYONE who helped to make the Tea with Diana Gabaldon and Shenanigans great successes. We did very well financially at both events because of GREAT silent auction items (a special thanks to Kris Satterwhite who made oh so lovely baskets and goodies and the Barb Ripple for her beautiful jewelry). The new addition at the tea (a no host bar) was a great success and Michael Satterwhite was the whisky guy of the day. John McGregor did a super job organizing Shenanigans and the Knockabouts, McTeggart dancers, Kari's fiddle kids and Megan McPherson really entertained the crowd. Good times were had by all and that is to the credit of those who put so much into each event! THANKS!

Special Tartan Day Whisky Tasting!

Join us for a SPIRITED way to celebrate Tartan Day! After our regular program for Tartan Day

join us for an exclusive Glenfiddich single malt whisky tasting. The tasting will be at the

Weatherford Hotel on the mezzanine from 5pm to 6pm. Space is limited so be sure to reserve your

seat! Tickets will cost $10.00 per person and all proceeds will benefit the Northern Arizona Celtic

Heritage Society. Call Jude to reserve your seat…928.556.3161

NationalTartan Day

C E L E B R A T I O N

Sunday, April 5 at 2:00 PMCharly’s in the Weatherford Hotel

23 North Leroux Street

FREE ~ Bring the Whole Family!Wear your Tartan ~ Haggis ~ BagpipesBonny Knees Contest ~ Silent Auction Whisky Tasting ~ the KNOCKABOUTS!

SPONSORED BY THE NORTHERN ARIZONA CELTIC HERITAGE SOCIETYdedicated to presenting, promoting, and preserving Celtic culture

For more Info: please call Jude ! ! ! ! ! 556.3161

Thank you to Flagsta! Cultural Partners, the National Endowment for the Arts,

and the Arizona Commission on the Arts for their continued support!

April 1 Party at Jude's House - FREE BOTTLES OF SCOTCH

April 1 Gaelic Class , Thorp Park Adult Center, 6:30

April 4 Knockabouts, Charly's Pub 9PM

April 5 Tartan Day, Charly's Pub 2PM

April 6 Gaelic Class, Thorpe Park Adult Center, 6:30

April 6 Opening Day of Baseball

April 13 Gaelic Class, Thorpe Park Adult Center, 6:30

April 20 Gaelic Class, Thorpe Park Adult Center, 6:30

April 27 Gaelic Class, Thorpe Park Adult Center, 6:30

Bottles and cutlery needed! Don’t throw away those empty plastic water and soda bottles!

Save them for NACHS! We are gathering clean, empty, small water and soda type bottles

for a plant project for SOAR INTO SPRING. Help NACHS teach kids about growing

things by donating bottles we can use. We also need old metal spoons and forks to make

wind chimes for SOAR INTO SPRING. This is recycling at it’s best. We will use loads of

neat old stuff to make cool wind chimes! If you have items to donate call Jude at 928-556-

3161.

Bicycle Signs

Time is drawing near for the Arizona Highland Celtic Festival! Last year we tried a fun project by having a neat small sign made to hang from the back of a bicycle seat advertising the festival. Our own Todd Barnell rode that sign all over town and had many great conversations with folks who were interested. If you ride a bike and would be willing to put on a sign please call Jude and she will get one done up for you! 928.556.3161.

Volunteers Needed for Soar Into Spring!

The City of Flagstaff is once again readying themselves for Soar Into Spring....a wind/spring

festival at Foxglenn Park. In order to give back to the community and to positively impact

kids, NACHS will again host a crafty booth. We will offer the kids the opportunity to make a

wind chime and to plant something (herbs, etc.) and take it home with them. So, we need

HELP! The event will take place from 11 to 4 on April 25th and we need folks willing to

spend all or part of that time helping the kids. If you are interested please call Jude at

928.556.3161

The Grand Canyon Celtic Arts Academy is really excited for its inaugural year

bringing some fantastic musicians from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to teach a two day

workshop in July and perform at the Northern Arizona Celtic Highland Festival. The

workshops will take place July 15 and 16 and will offer instruction in Irish fiddle,

flute, penny whistle, DADGAD guitar, Irish tenor banjo, and bodhran.

Instructing the fiddles will be Devin McCabe. Devin has been playing music since

the age of five and has been involved in traditional Irish music for approximately 10

years. He began fiddle instruction under Milwaukee native Ed Paloucek and Chicago

fiddler Liz Carroll and has taught himself the concertina and whistle in recent years.

Teaching Irish flute and penny whistle is Brett Lipshutz. Based in Milwaukee, Brett

has been playing various flutes for over 25 years. He has played Irish and

Baroque music for 15 years. Brett has twice played at the All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil

and toured with the Trinity Irish Dance Company. In addition to involvement in

theater projects, school outreach programs and many recordings and radio

broadcasts, he is an active teacher. Brett most recently returned from Paris,

France, where he taught flute and whistle at the Association irlandaise.

Teaching Irish DADGAD guitar, Irish tenor banjo, and bodhran is Randy Gosa.

Randy has studied music with several musicians such as Liz Carroll, Silé Shigley,

Andy Irvine, Tony Nother, and has studied at the University of Limerick, Ireland

with Niall Keegan and Sandra Joyce. In addition to being a string musician since

the age of 12, Randy is a graduate of Visual Art and Celtic Studies from the UW-

Milwaukee. He is also an active céilí and set dance musician in Milwaukee and

teaches at the Irish Fest School of Music.

The Grand Canyon Celtic Arts Academy is directed by Kari Barton (Living

Traditions Presentations) and is part of the Northern Arizona Celtic Heritage

Society. For more information, please contact Kari Barton at

Kari@LivingTraditionsPresentations.com or call 928-600-1365.

The Knockabouts are one of the featured bands at the 15th

Annual Durango Bluegrass Meltdown.The festival runs from

April 17 - 19 and the Knockabouts will be performing on the

18th in the "Celtdown" part of the festival. For more info

please visit www.durangomeltdown.com or

www.knockabouts.org

From Normandy in France, the name probably comes from "Brix" near Cherbourg. Like

many of the early Scots nobility, the first Robert de Brus came over with William the

Conqueror in 1066. A later Robert de Brus accompanied King David I when he returned

to Scotland in 1124 from his sojourn in England. The family became established in

Annandale in what is now Dumfries and Galloway. The family also owned extensive

lands in England. As a result of marriage to the daughter of King David, Robert de Brus

became Earl of Huntingdon.

At one point, when King David invaded England, Robert de Brus gave up his holdings

in Annandale to his son and joined the English forces. He later captured his son at the

Battle of the Standard in 1138. Generations after that, Robert the Bruce, Earl of

Annandale, became ruler of an independent Scotland and achieved the great victory at

Bannockburn over Edward II in 1314.

The royal line died out 50 years later when the first Stewart monarch ascended the

throne as a result of his descent from Bruce's daughter, Marjory. But the Bruces were

granted land in Fife and continued as a noble family. In 1633 Thomas Bruce was created

the first Earl of Elgin. It was the 7th Earl of Elgin who rescued the marbles of the

Parthenon in Greece, now in the British Museum and known as the Elgin Marbles. His

son was an eminent diplomat and became Governor General of Canada.

BruceGaelic Name: Brus

Motto: Fuimus (We have been)

Badge: Rosemary

Lands: Annandale, Clackmannan and Elgin

Learn Gaelic!

Richard Ferguson continues to teach a weekly conversational Scottish Gaelic class for

beginning and intermediate speakers, using the Teach Yourself Gaelic materials. In the

classes, students can also pick up Scottish cultural and historical information! Best of all,

the classes are FREE! Join Richard Mondays, 6:30-8:00pm at the Flagstaff Adult Center,

245 Thorpe Rd.

Directory of Celtic Arts

For Lessons:

Bagpipe , Flagstaff

Jim Thomson: 928.522.8797

Bodhran

Ron Barton: 928.774.7261

Fiddle & Irish Dance

Kari Barton: 928.600.1365

For Performance and Music:

Bagpipers

Jim Thomson: 928.522.8797

The Knockabouts

John McGregor: 928.814.2480

www.knockabouts.org

Cans for Bands Project: Don't forget to save those aluminum cans for our "Cans for Bands" project! Call Jim Thomson at 522-8797 to arrange a drop-off at his shop (Thomson and Son Bagpipes, 555 Blackbird Roost

#7).

The Celtic Corner comes on

Sat. at 6 PM and the NEW

TIME for the replay is 8 AM on

Sun. on KJZA, (89.5 & 90.1

FM). The host is our own David

McNabb

(mcnabbprescott@aol.com).