Celtic Fling in PA

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What: Celtic Fling & Highland Games
When: Saturday & Sunday, June 25 & 26th
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 7:30 pm
Where:

• The Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire (Mount Hope Estate & Winery)
  2684 Lebanon Road
  Manheim PA 17545
  Phone: (717) 665 - 7021
  Fax: (215) 418-4747

Tickets: Adults - $17.95 (online), $21.95 (at the gate)
Children (5-11) - $7.00 (online), $8.95 (at the gate)

• Virtual Box Office

General Information:

For one weekend in late June each year, Lancaster County’s Amish country becomes the Celtic capital of the United States as 100’s of musicians, dancers, craftsmen, Scottish clans, Irish societies and rugged athletes from across North America and Europe gather at Mount Hope Estate & Winery for the Celtic Fling & Highland Games.

Centuries before the X-Games took to the airwaves, the Scots were testing themselves in the most demanding athletic events in the world. The skills used on the farm became tests of the strength of Scottish warriors as clans pitted their champions against each other at Highland gatherings. The Fling continues that great tradition with its Highland Athletic Games sanctioned by the Mid-Atlantic Association of Scottish Athletics, whose judges operate under the original rules of the Scottish Stewards Association.

No Celtic festival is complete without food and drink, of course, and Scottish scones, briodies and pasties and Irish soda bread and meat pies top a long Celtic menu. All the while, the Faire’s microbrewery serves up its acclaimed varieties of ales. There’s a free sampling of Scotch whiskey, and “Fear Factor” has nothing on the Fling’s infamous haggis eating contest. Complimentary samples of Mt. Hope Estate wines are available as well.

Performance schedules:

• Saturday
  Sunday

For further information and a complete list activities, log into the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire's website