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Tickets are available at Records on Wheels in Downtown Sudbury, and Rock Topic on Lasalle Blvd. Leahy "A New Generation" tickets can be purchased during the festival for $35 and include free weekend admission to the festival.
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read more Days Inn Sudbury is the official Hotel sponsor of the 2011 Greater Sudbury Celtic Festival and Highland Games.
Guests receive a special rate of $89.99. Check them out!
A Little History
The tradition of the Highland Games goes back centuries to Northern Scotland. The games allowed Clan Warriors to test their physical prowess. The first highland games took place in Canada in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, in 1863. Today, athletes around the world take part in this time-honoured tradition, which can be best described as Scotland’s Strongman Competition.
After a hiatus in the late 1970s the Highland Games returned to Sudbury in 2008 during Greater Sudbury's 125 Anniversary Celebrations and quickly captured the community’s imagination. As the festival has progressed it has become Greater Sudbury’s Heritage Festival encompassing the rich cross-cultural heritage roots of the Anishnabek, French Canadian, Irish, Scottish, and Celtic Nations who helped define a modern-day Greater Sudbury.
With so much to offer, we have simply called the event “Friends, Food, Fun & Folklore.” At the festival you will experience traditional food and retail vendors, pipe bands, dancers, storytellers, interactive children’s activities, test of brute strength and a couple pints in our festival pub catered by Sixth Avenue Golf & Country Club. New this year we have added after hours festival pubs at Peddler’s Pub in Downtown Sudbury.
Event Schedule
Hours
Saturday, May 21, 2011
9 am to 10 pm
Sunday, May 22, 2011
10 am to 6 pm
The City celebrates its Heritage Roots with a variety of events at Parc Sacré Coeur and at Peddler’s Pub in Downtown Sudbury.
We are pleased to welcome our new Chieftain of the Games, Grant Frazer, direct from Scotland along with Davy Holt, who will charm the audience with their Scotland Sings program.
CLICK HERE to download the full schedule of events in PDF format.
Who's going to be there?
While you're here, please take a moment to visit this year's vendors online:
• Ben Bhraggie House Ltd (highland ware, gifts, accessories, bagpipes, drums)
• Ruach Crafts (Celtic needlework kits, patterns, jewelry)
• Paula Naomi Designs (pendants, stone jewelry)
• Fric & Frac (beading, custom jewelry, chains, watches, rings)
• R Kilts (manufacturing of contemporary kilts, hemp, leather, wool, sporrans, belts)
• Cape Breton Club of Sudbury
• Sixth Avenue Golf & Country Club
• Dawg Bones
• Route 86 Ice Cream
• Northern Kettle Corn
• Simply British Foods
• Lellyrella by Lesley Comyn
• Branch Flutes
•
Clan Cameron
• Grandma's Lemonade
•
Cathy's Jewels
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