www.moabhappenings.com Moab Happenings • September 2021 • 11A Moab Celtic Festival Please Join Us For Our Eighth Year! Celebrate the heritage and culture of Scotland, Ireland followed by the Opening Ceremony. The Pipes & Drum bands and Wales, just as it’s been done for centuries... with lots will join together on the fi eld followed by the Clan March. of great music, dancing, athletics and good fun, good food, Please stay and enjoy the traditional Scottish activities such good drink, and great friends. Enjoy musical performances as heavy athletics, featuring the Stone Put Championship, all day long, massed bagpipe bands, unique Celtic merchants Highland dancing, Bagpipe band and solo competitions, clan and eateries, Scottish clans, heritage and cultural booths, booths, Whiskey tasting, door prizes, silent auction, vendors highland athletics and much more. (both food and wares), and much more. 2021 brings lots of changes for The Moab Celtic Saturday evening at 6 pm we will hold a Ceilidh, a Festival! The Festival is being held at the Moab City Ball traditional Scottish social gathering with another opportunity Fields, 250 E Center Street, and will run from Friday, to enjoy the entertainment. September 17 through Sunday, September 19. The competitions will The gates will open at 4 pm on Friday, September continue on Sunday at 8 17th. Please bring your chair and join us for The Tattoo, am. Please join us on the 11 am PARADE* FOLLOWED BY THE OPENING which is a sample MVI Stage at 11 am for the CEREMONIES AT NOON of the awesome Kirkin of the Tartan (a non- 2 pm-3:30 pm Pipes and Drum Band Competition at entertainment denominational religious the MVI Stage you will get to service). At 2 pm we will hold Entertainment on the Main Stage experience on the the Closing Ceremony when Food & Wares Vendor Booths weekend. Massed the Awards will be presented. Family History Clan Booths Bands will start Please join the “Scots on Silent Auction & Door Prizes off the evening The Rocks” for this fun-fi lled Bonnie Knees Contest followed by special festival and also see what Beer** and Bar** music by Tom Moab has to off er! Whisky Tasting ** 1 pm, 3 pm and 5 pm Lambie, Comedy by Patrick Regan, music by The Lougheed Please visit our website for TICKETS and more and more surprises! Band, Traditional Irish Dance performed by The Rinceoiri information at www.scotsontherocksmoab.org Sunday, September 19th, gates open 8 am-4 pm Don Spraci Irish Dancers and ending the evening with wild If you purchase tickets through the website, they will 9 am-4pm Athletic competition on the SE fi eld tribal Celtic music by The Wicked Tinkers! be available at “Will Call”. Noon-1:30 pm Pipes and Drum band competition at The Utah Heavy Athletics will sponsor a Strongman Or you can pay at the Gate. Admission $20 for 3 day the MVI Stage competition Friday 4-7:30 pm. This is a fi rst for Moab and pass or $10 for single day pass. Entertainment throughout the day we are so excited for this event! Schedule: Food & Wares Vendor Booths The Festivities will continue on Saturday, September Friday, September 17th Family History Clan Booths 18th at 8 am. NEW THIS YEAR, if all goes as planned, 4 pm Gates open, some Vendors and Clans will be ready Silent Auction & Door Prizes we will have a parade at 11am. We will start at Main to greet you! Bonnie Knees Contest Street and proceed east on Center Street to the Ball Fields, 4 pm Strongman Competition on the SE Field. Beer** and Bar** 6 pm The Tattoo, a sample of the awesome entertainment Whisky Tasting** 1 pm and 3 pm scheduled for the weekend featuring Tom Lambie, and more surprises! Patrick Regan, Lougheed Band, The Rinceoiri Don Don’t miss the CLOSING CEREMONIES at 2 pm! Spraci Irish Dancers and The Wicked Tinkers following VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION! the Massed Bands. TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE IN OUR STORE! Saturday, September 18th Gates open at 8 am-9 pm www.scotsontherocksmoab.org (times are approximate and subject to change) • * Pending fi nal approval – Parade 8 am-noon Pipes and Drum Solo Competition • **Pending DABC approval – Beer & Bar 9 am-4 pm Athletic Competition on the SE fi eld, Stone Put Championship 9 am-TBD Highland Dance Competition MOAB CELTIC FESTIVAL SEPTEMBER 17-19, 2021 Do you know where your Celtic Roots Lie? Do you belong to one of these clans? Clan Bell Clan Maxwell Clan Cameron Clan McKleavage Clan Campbell Clan Menzies Clan Crawford Clan Moncrieffe Clan Gregor Clan Moffat Clan Gunn Clan Scott Clan Johnston e / Clan O'Rourke Clan Keith Clan Stewart Clan Lamont Clan Wallace Clan MacFarland Clan Young Clan MacIntyre House of Gordon Clan MacKenzie Scottish District Families Clan Maclachlan Utah Gaelic Club Come visit and find out more about your Celtic family! SCOTSONTHEROCKSMOAB.ORG.