Entertainers performing at the Dandridge Scots-Irish Festival Include:

  See these entertainers at the Dandridge Scots-Irish Festival, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009 Dandridge, Tennessee

Our Scheduled entertainers for the Dandridge Scots-Irish Festival are:  Colin Grant-Adams, The Martin Family Band, Cutthroat Shamrock, Thistledown Tinkers, Highland Dancer Claire Macmillan, Celtic Band Mickle-A-Do, Irish Step Dancer Ashley Hertling, The Knoxville Pipes & Drums and The Kelly School of Irish Dance (Oak Ridge, TN (865) 494-6438).  See below for more information.  

Photo at the right:  Claire Macmillan, Champion Highland Dancer  - Scroll down for info on Claire.

  The Ceilidh by the Loch will be at 6:30pm, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009, at the Main Highland Stage behind Town Hall on Main Street in Historic Downtown Dandridge, Tennessee.  Each of the entertainers shown below will be performing during the day on various stages, however, Colin Grant-Adams, Claire McMillan, Ashley Hertling,  Martin Family Band, Thistledown Tinkers & Mickle-A-Do, will be featured at the Ceilidh Saturday evening.

There is no charge for the street festival, nor for the Ceilidh.  Free seating is available under the spectators tent and on the grass either side of the tent or on the dike for those who bring their own chairs or want to sit on the grass.  Reserved seating will be maintained at the front of the tent for Thistle Club Patron Contributors.

Colin Grant-Adams is brought to you by McSpadden Inc. in Dandridge
 

Mickle-A-Do (MAD)

Our music is a mixture of hard hitting jigs and songs  moving ballads and instrumentals.

      To date, we have recorded and released three albums: They are Live on St. Patrick’s Day at Fado’s Irish Pub, Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts and 1061! 

       Some of our past engagements have been at Festivals including the Blairsville GA Scottish Festival and Highland Games, The Gatlinburg TN Scottish Highland Games, The Dandridge (TN) Scots-Irish Festival, The Georgia Independence Day Festival, Atlanta’s Official St. Patrick’s Day Festival at Underground Atlanta, The Georgia Renaissance Festival and at Atlanta venues including Turner Field, the High Museum of Art, Fado’s Irish Pub, M’Vorneen’s Irish Pub, Meehan’s Public House, Scruffy McGee's in Columbus Georgia, and Corbett McGee's in Anderson, South Carolina.. 

        Our band has opened in concert for international touring bands such as Seven Nations, Enter the Haggis and Neil Anderson and Rathkeltair.   

                                                 We play hard and have fun!

Mickle-A-Do is proudly sponsored by Dr. Dale & Lisa Bryant

                   

    The Knoxville Pipes & Drums
       

The Knoxville Pipes & Drums were proudly sponsored in 2008 by Ben Catlett of Edward Jones, Dandridge, Tennessee

The Knoxville Pipes & Drums are sponsored by Ben Catlett & Edward Jones Investments in Dandridge


 
Cutthroat Shamrock of Sevier Co., Tennessee

      In the spring of 2003 we played our first show on saint patrick's day in a little bar in gatlinburg.  Taking the sounds we grew up with and putting an Appalachian twist to them, we have developed our own sound; a mix of punk rock,folk, and traditional irish pub songs.
        Don't be confused by our style (or lack there of) we are some of the nicest fellas you will ever meet. we should have probably written our songs with electric instruments but the raw power of acoustic means we can play anywhere. we have played many events such as the knoxville brewers jam at the worlds fair park, the WDVX blue plate special, hottfest, the blue plum festival and a multitude of others. we plan to take this sound to the ends of the earth.

    "If punk rock and bluegrass walked into an irish pub and got kidnapped by pirates."  

   

Johnny Hyena: congas, Guido: vocals, stand up bass Suavo: drum kit Derek McRotten: vocals, guitar, mandolin Benjamin: vocals, guitar, mandolin

     www.myspace.com/cutthroatshamrock

 
                                     

Guido

Suavo

Cutthroat Shamrock is proudly sponsored by H.B. Jarnagin & Co., Insurance Agency in Dandridge

 

Thistledown Tinkers is a Celtic guitar and fiddle duo presenting traditional Scottish and Irish music. 

These seasoned music veterans create energetic arrangements from ancient melodies and stir Celtic flavors into newer songs.

You will find them at festivals, pubs and home concerts – wherever kinsmen are gathered and the craic is lively!

 

     

                    

The Thistledown Tinkers are proudly sponsored by Twin Lakes Realty

 

My name is Claire Macmillan.  I am 13 years old and I live in Knoxville, Tennessee.  My teacher is Mrs. Judy Hackett.  My mother and I commute every Tuesday for lessons at her home in Brentwood, Tennessee.  It is a three-hour trip one way.  I usually do my homework on the trips and sleep on the way back.  I have been her student for five years now and with her help I have been able to accomplish a lot of the goals I had set for myself.

Here are a few of my accomplishments for the past three years

2006 Accomplishments:  The Atlantic International Championship at the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games.  The winner of the Sadie Simpson North American British Association of Teachers Highland Dancing award.  The Marguerite Reid Junior Scholarship Award at the Delco Workshop as well as choreography competition.

2007 Accomplishments:  Repeat winner of the Junior Scholarship at the Delco workshop in Philadelphia.  I won the premier 14 and under trophy both Saturday and Sunday at the Stone Mountain Highland Games in Atlanta, Georgia

2008 Accomplishmentsz:  I began the year placing as the 4th runner up at the Queen Mary Championship In Los Angelos, CA.  I won the 14 and under trophy at the Cary NC Highland Dancing Completion and tied for dancer of the day. I won the Carolinas Open Championship at the Loch Norman Highland Games in Charlotte, North Carolina.  I won 13 and under Southeast Regional Championship at the Savannah Highland games.  5th runner up at the United States Interregional Championships in Denver Colorado

 

Most of all I love to dance!

 

 

Claire is proudly sponsored by Dixie & Mollie, the Patterson Border Collies

 

The Martin Family Band

 from Newmanstown, PA, is an exciting, energetic group that features traditional Celtic music as well as Irish step dancing.  Five of the six Martin siblings along with Mom and Dad and fried of the famil, Earl Pyles, have been performing Celtic music since early 204.  The band consists of the fiddling Martin sisters, Emily, Melissa, and Christy, brother Brian, and dad, Nelson, on guitars; mom, Elaine, on base; and drummer Earl Pyles.  Their younger brother, Zach  on fiddle, joins in this lively band winning the hears of any audience.

 

 

They have performed at various fairs, festivals, theaters, and other venues such as Bethlehem Musikfest, Berks Jazz Fest, McLain Celtic Festival, Sycamore Shoals Celtic Festival, Kutztown PA German Festival, the Kirkland Arts Center, and the Miller Performing Arts Center.

The Martin Family Band is brought to you by The Gass Bldg.
 

 

 Scots-Irish Festival

The Ceilidh (concert) Saturday evening is free to the public.  There is some seating provided but you may want to bring your own chairs. 

 Dandridge Community Trust, P.O. Box 1382, Dandridge, TN 37725

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Benjamin

Derek

Johnny

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thistledown Tinkers color photos by Dave Watson Photography