Our Program

 

AUGUST 20, 2011

TOUR DE CRACKERS NECK BICYCLE RACE -- Registration opens 8:00 am.  Race begins at 9:00 am.
FARMERS MARKET --  10:00 - 11:00 am.  Gary Crum and Carole Mask
                                                      11:00 - 11:45 am.   Joseph Sobol

LIBRARY -- Kid's walk-in activities all day.
                             11:00 am - 11:30 am   Coyote Run
                             1:00 pm - 1:45 pm.   Poet's Corner

PARADE -- begins at noon from Farmers Market (anyone who wants to join us is welcome!

MINERS PARK
 
12:15 (ish) (when parade arrives) Opening festivities and flags
12:30 - 1:30 pm Coyote Run
1:30 - 1:45 pm Union High School Breton Dancers
1:45 - 2:15 pm Volk and Friends Welsh Choir
2:15 - 2:30 pm Drum Circle
2:30 - 3:00 pm Sigean
3:00 - 3:30 pm Stardust Dancers
3:30 - 4:00 pm Crum and Mask
4:00 - 4:45 pm Coyote Run
4:45 - 5:00 pm Closing with all performers
   
WORKSHOPS AT CABIN  
12:45 - 1:30 pm British and Appalachian Ballads with Jack Beck
1:30 - 2:15 pm Basic Celtic Dance with Vanessa Carr
2:15 - 3:00 pm Introduction to Pipes with Randy Stanley
3:00 - 3:45 pm Drumming with Paulina Ley and friends
   
BULLITT PARK
Horses will be at park from after the parage until 3:00 (ish)
1:00 pm Drum Circle
2:00 pm and 3:00 pm Sheepdogs
   
JAM SESSIONS ON BOOKSTORE FRONT PORCH
1:00 - 1:30 pm Irish Need Apply
1:30 - 2:00 pm Slow Jam in D
2:00 - 2:30 pm Singers' Circle
2:30 - 3:00 pm Anything Goes
3:00 - 3:30 pm Celtic Humor
3:30 - 4:00 pm Scots That
4:00 - 4:30 pm Ballad Singers
4:30 - 5:00 pm Slow Jam in D
   
FOX HOUSE  
1:30 - 2:00 pm Joseph Sobol and Trae McMaken
2:00 - 2:30 pm Crum and Mask
2:30 - 3:00 pm Jack Beck
3:00 - 3:30 pm Coyote Run's Dave and Kathy
3:30 - 4:00 pm Ghost Stories (tbc)
   
SACRED STAGE AT
BAPTIST CHURCH
 
2:00 - 2:30 pm Rhody Jane
2:30 - 3:30 pm Evangelistic Choraliers
3:30 - 4:00 pm Volk and Friends Welsh Choir
   
CEILIDH DANCE  
5:30 - 5:00 pm With Kingsport Scottish Country Dance Society (Presbyterian Church)
   
Bouncy Castle is located by the Appalachian British Car Club, across from Ball's Video.  $1.00 for unlimited play.  Don't lose your wrist tag!  You have to pay again if you do!
 
Food is available intil 2:00 pm at the Celtic Kitchen (Presbyterian Church) for Celtic fare, the Mutual Pharmacy (home cooking) and Miners Park (snacks).  Fox House serves high tea for donations throughout the afternoon.
 
Festival Shuttle runs between all events from 12:30 - 3:30 (ish).  $1.00 per person (regardless of age) for unlimited transport all day.  Don't lose your wrist string or you have to buy another!  Parents with more than three children may purchase a family ticket for $5.00.
 
Lost and Found:  Lost a kid or an object?  Need to find one?  Go to the Festival Office at His Ministries.
 
COMING IN 2012 --- Flyting of the Bands
Are you in a band?  Ever thought of playing Celtic music?  We are looking for five local bands to play at the 2012 Festival, 2 songs each.  One song must be Celtic, but flavor it with your own originality.  Salsa Celtica?  Bluegrass Breton?  Welsh Swing?  Get creative.  Vocer a rock band in a Celtic style.  Write an original song; we don't care.  Just make it good.  If more than five bands apply (fee $25.00 per band) we will have a panel decide the five that battle onstage in 2012.  The most popular band by audience response will play in 2013.  For more information contach jbeck69087@aol.com or presbytony@gmail.com.
 
FESTIVAL PARTICIPATION AND YOU!
Want to participate in the 2012 Festival?  Have an idea?  Available to volunteer at a venue?  Know anyone who does Celtic sports?  We'd love to hear from you.  This festival is a community-driven effort to increase downtown visibility and showcase the Celtic roots of Southwest Virginia's resilient and lovely people.  If you want to help with any element of this you may contact us through our website at www.bigstoneceltic.com

 

Check out our photographs of the 2010 Festival here.

BIG STONE CELTIC