Tucson Celtic Festival

The Tucson Celtic Festival and Scottish Highland Games bring the music, dance and athletic traditions of Scotland and Ireland to the Rillito Park Race Track. Highland Games athletes and Highland dancers compete, Celtic performers including Jeffrey Buggy and Nancy McCallion play, and dozens of clans and societies set up tents, from Clan Armstrong and Clan Donald to the Desert Irish Wolfhounds. Clan MacBean is the honored clan, led by its hereditary chief, Richard McBain of McBain, who was born and raised in Tucson. Merchants, a Jim Click raffle and the festival's scholarship and charity programs round it out.