Annual Celtic Festival returns Saturday to Five Rocks

David Ginnow smiles as he takes advantage of his handmade inkle to weave alongside one another string. Ginnow manufactured a Scotts Bluff tartan all through the 2019 Celtic Festival, which is registered in Scotland and is on display in the county commissioners’ home. The tan represents sandstone, environmentally friendly signifies prairie grasses, mustard colour is for corn, purple represent the Ulster-Scot clan for Hiram Scott and red signifies the Huskers.




Scottish heritage will be on screen for the duration of the fourth annual Celtic Collecting in Gering Saturday, June 26. This year’s party will be condensed into a single working day, which starts at 10 a.m. at Five Rocks Amphitheater.

The Scotts Bluff Celtic Collecting Committee, comprised of a team of volunteers from the space and Fort Collins, Colorado, arrange the yearly function as nicely as at the very least 1 other party just about every year, like the Robert Burns Dinner or St. Patty’s Working day Pub Crawl. Following not remaining in a position to keep previous year’s celebration due to the pandemic, committee chief Zach MacDonald expressed excitement about this year’s party.

“We’re undertaking a bit of a condensed function this year,” MacDonald explained. “We’re seriously only one working day for the general community when we’re ordinarily virtually two and 50 percent days. For the most aspect, we’re carrying out everything we can, just packing it all in on a single day.”

There will be no sheep puppy demonstration and this year’s gatherings will operate simultaneously, in its place of concurrently.

A important ingredient of the pageant is the RenScots, who depict Scottish daily life in the 17th Century, MacDonald said.

“There is no group that is as correct as the RenScots,” he claimed.

Ordinarily, a Celtic Pageant highlights the record of Scottish, Irish and Welsh, with Scotts Bluffs link to the Scottish lineage simply because of Hiram Scott, an American trapper and pelt trader who went on expeditions close to the region in the 1820s. Even though legend and folklore indicate that Scott died in the region, there are several variations about exactly where it occurred. Jerry Lucas, who has researched the lifetime and legend of Scott, will be presenting at the festival.