SATURDAY SCOOPS
Kick up yer kilt
Advertiser Staff
Men in kilts. Comic Frank De Lima. Jig This, Doolin Rakes, Whiskey Starship and other groups with oh-so-lively names.
What do they have in common? All, and more, will be at the 25th annual Hawaiian Scottish Festival and Highland Games at Kapi'olani Park. The event originally was scheduled for the first weekend of April, but the rains nixed it until this sunnier weekend.
Among the attractions: Highland events such as tossing the caber (that long, heavy wooden pole), cultural demonstrations, vendors and food — all a la the land of the bagpipes.
Festival hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and tomorrow. Admission is free. www.scotshawaii.org.
ENTERTAINMENT SCHEDULE
Today
10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Jig This, Irish dancers
11 a.m. Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, Hawai'i branch
11:30 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. The Musketeer Fencers
12:30 p.m. Celtic Pipes and Drums of Hawaii
1 and 4:30 p.m. Society for Creative Anachronism, medieval battles
1:30 p.m. Celtic Waves band
2:45 p.m. Kaimana Ceili band
5 p.m. Doolin Rakes band
Tomorrow
10 a.m. and 4:45 p.m. The Musketeer Fencers
10:30 a.m. James McCarthy, storyteller
11 a.m. Royal Scottish Country Dance Society
11:30 a.m. and 3:45 p.m. Society for Creative Anachronism
12:30 p.m. Celtic Pipes and Drums of Hawaii
1 p.m. Squirrel Hunters band
1:30 p.m. Frank De Lima
2 p.m. Royal Hawaiian Band
2:45 p.m. Jig This
4 p.m. Whiskey Starship band
5 p.m. CeltOphelia band