Estes Park, Colorado

Who doesn’t love a parade?  Friend invited [me] to tag along Saturday.

Scottish Highland Festival?  ABSOLUTELY.

Neighbor Larry arrived in native Scot regalia.  You think you know a guy.  Man skirt?

Estes Park Fairgrounds, festival gates open at 11.  PARADE MARCH down Elkhorn an hour-half earlier.  Closest I personally come to being Scottish: wearing PLAID the next THREE seasons.  Probably more BRAWNY MAN than BRAVEHEART.  LOL>

Bring on the BAGPIPES!  Show me some KILTS!  LOVE LOVE a parade.

Each clan sported their own unique FAMILY plaid.

SCOTLAND the BRAVE played — over & over & over  ♪ ♫ ♬

GREAT weather, GREAT energy, GREAT time!

Thanks neighbor 🌞

Every man dies, but not every man really lives – Braveheart 🏹

Scottish Highland Parade (Part I)

Scottish Highland Parade (same song/one song mix)

Longs Peak Scottish Irish Highland Festival

SEPTEMBER 6-9, 2018

 

For more than three decades, Estes Park has been the backdrop for one of the nation’s largest celebrations of the heritage, the sounds, the tastes, and the arts of the Scottish and Irish cultures.

 

Held annually the weekend after Labor Day, Estes Park’s Longs Peak Scottish-Irish Highland Festival is the largest gathering of its kind between the Mississippi River and California, and traditionally hosts bands – from the marching kind to the rocking kind and everything in-between – hailing from Great Britain, Scotland, Ireland, Canada and, of course, the United States.

 

With jousting knights, dancing girls, hoisting athletes and calling bagpipes, groups and families of all ages will catch the Celtic spirit at this festival – surrounded by the scenic peaks of Estes Park!

 

One of the weekend highlights is the free hour-long parade on Elkhorn Avenue, Estes Park’s main street. Bagpipes, drummers, dancers, clans in tartan, Dogs of the British Isles, brass military bands and precision drill teams give a preview of what can be seen on the festival grounds.