Moran Taing. Member Benefits!!!

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1 Moran Taing Many thanks to Michael Satterwhite for hosting the Gaelic Immersion weekend. NACHS presence was very important to make the weekend a success and Michael did a fantastic job Many thanks also to Nash Al-Zhanim for helping with Soar Into Spring. Soar Into Spring is a city of Flagstaff event and NACHS helps each year...great community relations Member Benefits Here is your chance to buy tickets for the festival at half price. Single members may purchase up to 5 tickets and family members may purchase up to 10 tickets The prices are as follows: Adult $7.50, Child $2.00, Adult 2 Day $11.00, and child 2 day $3.00. To get tickets call Jude BEFORE July 1 at Bagpipe Raffle McCallum Bagpipes has generously donated a very fine set of bagpipes for us to raffle. All the money will go to support the Jim Thomson School of Piping & Drumming. If you are interested in purchasing tickets please call Jude at th of July Parade The 4th of July parade is our last chance to strut our stuff and get the word out about our festival. We NEED your help We need flag bearers and flyer distributers. The parade will step off at 9 and afterward NACHS will host a BBQ for those who helped with the parade. If you are able to join in the fun please call Jude at VOLUNTEERS NEEDED It's that time again and we need all the volunteers we can get. If you have some time to give please call the volunteer hotline and sign up. We guarantee it's the most fun you can possibly have Volunteer hotline Posters, Flyers, and Magnetic Signs We are still looking for help spreading the word. If you are willing to put up some posters, give out flyers OR put a magnetic sign or even bicycle sign on your ride...call Jude at Jim Thomson School of Piping & Drumming and Grand Canyon Celtic Arts Academy We have 2 wonderful schools that we host and support. Check out the possibilities for classes AND don't forget there are nights of entertainment you can be a part of. Watch the website for info and schedules of events

2 June 4th Gaelic Class, Thorpe Park Adult Center, 6.30 June 5th Gaelic Class,Thorpe Park Adult Center, 6:30 June 11th NACHS meeting, Thorpe Park Adult Center, 6:00 June 18th Gaelic clas, Thorpe Park Adult Center, 6:30 June 25th Gaelic Class, Thorpe Park Adult Center,6:30 Learn Gaelic Richard Ferguson continues to teach a weekly conversational Scottish Gaelic class for beginning and intermediate speakers, using the Teach Yourself Gaelic materials. In the classes, students can also pick up Scottish cultural and historical information Best of all, the classes are FREE Join Richard Mondays, 6:30-8:00pm at the Flagstaff Adult Center, 245 Thorpe Rd. Sidras of Asturias By Bic Waterman, the Virtual Visitor [Update: Less than two months until this year s festival July 21 & 22, The following article was posted in the April 2005 Newsletter.] One of the most special offerings at the festival is the Spirits of the Celtic Regions, held in the two large entertainment tents on the field. Here is an opportunity, not only to learn about, but also to actually sample, whiskies, wines, ciders, and mead from Asturias, Brittany, Cornwall, Galicia, Ireland, Isle of Man, Scotland, and Wales. Cider is wildly popular throughout Asturias, and cider houses ~ called sidrerias ~ are always lively, and are the places to socialize, whether you are a native or visitor. The most fascinating thing about sidra drinking is the way it is poured. Cider pouring is an art, and the waiters take special pride in it. Accomplished waiters hold the bottle high over their head, with their arm at full extension. They then pour straight over their shoulder, into a glass held at the end of their other fully extended arm. This is done while the waiter is looking straight ahead, right through the cascading wine Learn more about the ciders of Asturias on the NACHS website: Click on the flag of Asturias, and then scroll to Spirits of the Region. Flagstaff Music Festival June 9-10 Heritage Square The Knockabouts will be perfroming at noon on June 10th and it's free so come support live music in Flagstaff Claire Mann & Aaron Jones June 10, :00pm Coconino Center for the Arts

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4 July 17-19, 2012 NAU Campus Instruction by Bua with Randy Gosa Instruction in: Fiddle Flute Whistle Bodhran Guitar Singing Dancing

5 Arizona Highland Celtic Festival July 21 & 22, 2012 Foxglenn Park 4200 East Butler Avenue / Flagstaff, AZ ~ Flagstaff ~ July 21 & 22, 2012 Saturday: 9:00 AM 6:00 PM Sunday: 10:00 AM 4:00 PM Come to the cool Arizona Highlands, Entertainment ~ The Wicked Tinkers ~ The Knockabouts ~ Bua ~ Scatter the Dust Displays & Education ~ Plants of Celtic Regions ~ Spirits of Celtic Regions ~ Scottish Clans ~ Celtic Societies ~ Celtic Education Tent ~ Celtic Geology Exhibit ~ NEW Genealogy Research Tent Celtic Kids Corner ~ Oatmeal Toss oopy goopy fun ~ Explore the world of Celtic wee folk fun Workshops ~ On Celtic music, whisky tasting, and, something special Celtic Labyrinths A magical journey Competitions & Demos ~ Highland Dance ~ Scottish Athletics ~ Bagpipe Solo & Band ~ Tug o War Historical Reenactments ~ The Highland Rogues Special Feature ~ On SUNDAY ONLY join us for the CELTIC MILE a fun run or walk exploring the urban trail. For details check our website or call our information number. Please visit Or call THANK YOU to the City of Flagstaff, Flagstaff Cultural Partners, Arizona Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts for your support Adults: 1-day: $15; 2-days: $22 Children 3-12 years: 1-day: $4; 2-days: $6 Presale Tickets available after 4/1 until July 1 at: Arizona Music Pro - Flagstaff Animas Trading Co. - Flagstaff Friday Night - FREE Concert, Heritage Square at 6pm - Single Malt Whisky Tasting 7:30ish (fee charged; must be over 21) Uptown Billiards, 114 North Leroux Saturday Night - Single Malt Whisky Tasting at 7pm (must be over 21) - Celtic Ceilidh at 8pm cover charge $5 Both events will happen at the Weatherford Hotel, 23 N. Leroux St., Flagstaff HOST HOTELS Be sure to ask for SPECIAL CELTIC FESTIVAL rates Rate/ Night Property Details Newly redecorated Sleeps up to four people Pets OK at additional charge, Reserve before July 1 Sleeps up to four Fairfield Inn by Marriott people 2005 S. Milton Rd. Continental $99.00 Flagstaff, AZ breakfast Telephone: Reserve before July 1 Sleeps up to four Holiday Inn Express people 2320 East Lucky Lane Continental $ Flagstaff, AZ breakfast Telephone Reserve before July 1 Days Hotel formerly Travelodge 2200 East Butler Avenue $83.00 Flagstaff, AZ Telephone: Little America Hotel 2515 E. Butler Ave. $ Flagstaff, AZ Telephone Sleeps up to 4 people Reserve before June 21 NO PETS are allowed at Foxglenn Park during the festival. Assistance dogs, of course, are welcome.

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7 For those of you who don't know, the newsletter editor is a huge baseball fan so here is some fun history about the Irish and baseball Throughout Florida and Arizona, baseball goes green today, and it has nothing to do with recycling or carbon footprints. Green caps, green bases, maybe an occasional green bat donut -- and sure and begorrah to all. But long before St. Patrick's Day became sort of the unofficial holiday of Spring Training, even long before the Majors had their own snakes to cope with -- the Diamondbacks, of course -- there was only a former Ice Capades honcho with an eye for hoopla. Maybe Cincinnati Reds general manager Dick Wagner was bored after tooling the Big Red Machine into back-to-back World Series winners in 1975 and Maybe he grew nostalgic for the days when his gimmicks popularized the Ice Capades. Or maybe he just liked pulling a fast one. Whatever it was, months before the Reds departed for their Spring Training camp in Tampa, Wagner had this brilliant thought. Most people struck by ingenuity would be eager to call others and share their idea, but Wagner went the other way: He kept it to himself. The sole exception was Koch's Sporting Goods, the Reds' longtime outfitter. Wagner had the team's equipment manager, Bernie Stowe, order a roster's worth of green uniforms, with specific instructions of where and when to deliver them, under a veil of airtight secrecy. "This was not a situation where there was a lot of discussion in our offices during the winter," recalled Jim Ferguson, at the time the Reds' public relations director and one of the first recipients of MLB's Bob Fishel Award for PR excellence. "It was a tightly held secret, perhaps with Wagner alone, plus Stowe, who had to make all the arrangements. It was not out of character for Wagner to have made this a one-man production." Spring Training progressed routinely for weeks, manager Sparky Anderson optimistically steering the Big Red Machine through drills and the first half of the Grapefruit League schedule. On March 17, Al Lopez Field crackled with electricity: The Reds were hosting the team that the previous season had inherited their World Series laurels, the Yankees. The Reds went through the typical pregame rituals -- batting practice, infield -- in their regular uniforms. Show business as usual. But while the players were on the field, gremlins -- or were they leprechauns? -- were busy in the clubhouse. After workouts, the Reds dragged their perspiring bodies off the field and retreated to the clubhouse -- closed, uncharacteristically, to the media -- took a look and then did a double-take at their lockers... green uniforms hanging in front of each. "Did we get traded to Oakland?" catcher Johnny Bench asked."everywhere that was usually red had been changed to green -- the team name, the logo, the player's name on the back, socks, all the trimmings," Tuttle said. "The hats were solid green with a white 'C.' "Everyone stayed out of sight until game time..."... When, lined up single file with Anderson in the lead, the Reds -- er, Greens -- marched out of the clubhouse and onto the field. "It was a total surprise," recalled Hal McCoy, the Hall of Fame-recognized baseball writer who, in retirement from the Dayton Daily News, still covers the Reds through his blog on the newspaper's Web site. "And it created quite a shock." Bob Hertzel, the Cincinnati Enquirer's cheeky baseball writer, got in the spirit in his coverage of the Reds' 9-2 victory over the Yankees by Irish-izing all the players' names in his game story. Pete O'Rose, Johnny O'Bench, George O'Foster and Joe O'Morgan were all Cincinnati Reds for a day.for all the attention paid to Wagner's prank, the rest of baseball did not immediately follow suit. The Dodgers began wearing green caps and running green bases in Vero Beach in the early '80s, and the Phillies, Mets and Astros had also gone green before the end of that decade.from that point on, the tradition quickly spread. Today, three years after Wagner's death, his impulsive idea will be celebrated by players, on diamonds and at concessions stands from Hi Corbett Field to Space Coast Stadium.

8 Directory of Celtic Arts For Lessons: Bodhran Ron Barton: Fiddle & Irish Dance Kari Barton: Irish Whistle John McGregor Flute Jacquie McGregor For Performance: Bagpipers Jude McKenzie The Knockabouts John McGregor