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FIRST EVER MONTEREY COUNTY CELTIC WEEK TO BE HELD JULY 1-8, 2007

A very special event-filled first ever "Monterey County Celtic Week" will be held the week of July 1-8, 2007 in Monterey, California. This exciting week will kick off with a Caber Parade featuring Scottish dancers, bagpipers and drummers on Sunday, July 1st in Carmel along Ocean Avenue. Later that afternoon, the 3rd Annual Monterey Bay School of Piping and Drumming, will begin, to be held from Sunday, July 1st to Friday, July 6th at Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California featuring world renowned piping and drumming instructors from Scotland and the United States. The Monterey Bay Pipe Band will perform at the 4th of July Parade in Downtown Monterey. During the piping and drumming school on Thursday, July 5th, a Pub Night will be held in downtown Monterey with informal performances by the piping and drumming instructors. On Friday night, July 6th, there will be a very special Celtic Concert at the Stevenson School Auditorium in Pebble Beach, featuring the world class bagpipe instructors from Scotland and the U.S., Irish dancers, and other Celtic performers. Monterey County Celtic Week will culminate in the not-to-be-missed 40th Annual Monterey Scottish Games and Celtic Festival at Monterey County Toro Park, located between Monterey and Salinas on Highway 68, on Saturday and Sunday, July 7 & 8, 2007. TheMonterey Scottish Festival will feature a wide array of Scottish and Irish musicians, Scottish and Highland dancers, British food and crafts, thrilling athletic events and much, much more. The Monterey Scottish Festival’s very special array of entertainment this year will include the award-winning White Spot Youth Pipe Band from Vancouver, Canada with many pipers and Highland Dancers, Stand Easy with John Mclean Allan, a very popular Celtic Rock Band, Dublin-born Ken O'Malley and The Twilight Lords, an Irish band, and John Taylor and Hamewith. For more information, check out www.montereyscotgames.com or contact the Monterey Scottish Games & Celtic Festival Hotline at 831-647-6311.

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DON’T MISS AN OUTSTANDING

PIPING & DRUMMING SUMMER SCHOOL

IN BEAUTIFUL PEBBLE BEACH, CALIFORNIA!



The National Piping Centre of Scotlandin association with the Monterey Celtic Arts Academy presents the 3rd Annual Monterey Bay School of Piping & Drumming at the Stevenson School Pebble Beach, CA

July 1 – 6 - Followed by the 40th Annual Monterey Scottish Games & Celtic Festival

July 7 -8, -  Friday night Celtic Concert on July 6, 2007

At this prestigious Piping & Drumming School, come and learn from the World’s Finest Pipers and Drummers

Piping Instructors will include:

• Roddy MacLeod MBE - Principal of the National Piping Centre of Scotland
• Willie McCallum - 8 times Glenfiddich World Solo Piping Champion
• Jori Chisholm - United States Gold Medal Piping Champion
• Lorne Cousin - Piper to Madonna’s Worldwide Re-Invention Tour
  

Drumming Instructors:

• John Quigg - City of Washington Pipe Band
• Steve Kilbride -World Champion Tenor Drummer
  

For online registration and more details, visit www.thepipingcentre.co.uk or
call Michel d’Avenas at (831) 372-2020 or email bagpipe11@comcast.net