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The San Antonio Highland Games and Celtic Music Festival is very proud to bring Celtic dance groups from all over the region for your entertainment. This year's Celtic Dance Performers will include:
The Inishfree School of Irish Dancing
Inishfree offers classes for ages 4 through adult and is a certified Irish Dance School Inishfree School has performed at various locations throughout the city and with notable entertainers. (The Alamo, The Living Show, The Chieftains and Frank Patterson concerts)
Neill Reagan is a certified teacher of Irish Dancing, as well as an adjudicator, making students eligible to compete at Irish Dance competitions. Neill is the son of Irish born Irene O'Conner and Irish-American, Jerry Reagan. He began dancing at the age of five when his parents wanted their five children to carry on their Irish heritage. After dancing for only one year, Neill won the title of Eastern Regional Champion and accomplished that same title for the next fifteen consecutive years. Neill's dancers consistently bring home awards (medals and trophies) from competitions throughout the country and soon throughout the world.
Inishfree's classes are designed to teach the traditional and Irish step dancing while maintaining the rich cultural heritage. Students will learn to identify different Irish dancing steps in solo and figure/ceili dances as well as the correct Irish music to accompany each dance.
Inishfree students can train for competition or simply dance for recreation.
For more information call Stacy Alderink 210-481-1144 or email
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See the Inishfree Dancers of San Antonio appear on Great Day San Antonio to promote the 10th Annual Highland Games and Celtic Music Festival.
Celtic Menagerie
 The Celtic Menagerie (CM), based in Corpus Christi, is Texas' best known and most exciting Scottish dance troupe. They have been entertaining audiences at festivals, highland games and private functions across the state for more than twelve years.
CM's performances feature a unique combination of traditional Scottish Country and Ceilidh dances. Many of the dances performed were developed in the early 1700s however other dances created by our members feature original choreography. CM's creative flair and showmanship along with compelling Celtic musical selections keeps them in demand to "swing their kilts" across the state as they entertain and educate audiences of all ages.
Highlights of CM's current performance year include: the "Austin Celtic Festival", the "San Antonio Highland Games", "Houston Ifest", "National Tartan Day" at Texas A & M University, "Festival of the Arts", "Bayfest-Corpus Christi", "South Texas Celtic Music Festival", the "Ingleside Ren Faire", and the "Sam Houston Folk Life Festival" in Huntsville.
 The Bluebonnet Scottish Country Dancers
The Bluebonnet Scottish Country Dancers meet every Sunday at the International Folk Culture Center at Our Lady of the Lake University from 3 to 6 p.m. Newcomers are always welcome and no partner is required. Cost per class is $2.00. For more information contact Patty Heard at
HEARD@uthscsa.edu
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Scottish Country Dance is a centuries-old social dance form that's very much alive and kicking today. It combines culture, music, heritage, a physical workout, and a friendly social setting all in one. The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society boasts 170 branches and 366 affiliated groups scattered on nearly every continent throughout the world. Dances draw from a vast repertoire of figures and formations danced in sets of three or four couples. The music ranges from fast-tempo jigs and reels to gentle-paced strathspeys-- a style unique to Scotland. Dancers of all ages and abilities can participate.
This Spring, the Bluebonnet Scottish Country Dancers will participate in Burns Night with the Scots of the Texas Hill Country at the Inn of the Hills Resort and Conference Center in Kerrville, Texas. They will be part of Medieval Days at Air Force Village, Lackland AFB. The Bluebonnets will be performing at a Multicultural Festival at the Barshop Jewish Community Center in San Antonio, and of course at Texas Folk Life Festival at the Institute of Texan Cultures in June. They will perform at the 10th Annual San Antonio Highland Games, at the Helotes Fairgrounds. The Bluebonnet Scottish Country Dancers will welcome Scottish Dancers from all over Texas and the Southwest to San Antonio for the 12th Annual Bluebonnet Ball featuring live music by "Clandestine".
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The McTeggert Irish Dancers of San Antonio
The original McTeggart School of Irish Dance was established in 1939 in Cork, I reland. The first director was Peg McTeggart, the eldest of four sisters, all of them champion dancers. The school soon spread throughout the whole of County Cork due to the efforts of younger sister Maureen McTeggart Hall.
In 1958 Maureen and her family immigrated to the United States, bringing with them the art of Irish Dancing and introducing it to the Western Region of the United States by setting up a schools in Fresno, California and the San Francisco Bay area. She has since set up more than a dozen schools in Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Alaska.
The McTeggart School of Irish Dance is one of the most respected schools in the nation, with its dancers consistently qualifying for the World Championships in Ireland. Maureen McTeggart Hall is a vice-president of the Irish Dancing Commission and often adjudicates at the North American and World Championships.
The San Antonio Branch of McTeggert Irish Dance meets on Sundays at
Performing Arts School of Classical Ballet
2147 NW Military Highway
San Antonio, Texas 78213
They also meet on Tuesdays at:
North Broadway Performing Arts Center
9315 Broadway
San Antonio, Texas 78217
To schedule a performance with the San Antonio Irish Dancers or for information about classes, please call Tom Macken at (210) 273-8100 or Nikki Macken at (210) 363-2432
Email:
info@sanantonioirishdancers.com
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 San Antonio Scottish Society Highland Dancers
The San Antonio Scottish Society Highland dancers started in 1998 with two performers. Since then the group has grown to 10. The Scottish Society of San Antonio, so any member, sponsors us or member's child or grandchild can attend class at no charge. Classes meet on the second Tuesday of the month at Covenant Presbyterian Church in San Antonio.
Our group's primary purpose is to preserve the traditional dance of Scotland. Performing is the way we share this heritage and cultural form of dance.
Annette Venegas is the director and primary teacher of the group. Her daughter, Christine, is the assistant teacher.
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