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2021 Radford Highlanders Festival
Venue: Moffett Field (Radford University), Radford
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: City of Radford, Kinnfolk, PanJammers, Syr
Date: Saturday, October 9, 2021
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Food, Drink Specials, Sports, Miscellaneous, Family Friendly
Cost: Free

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Description:
Radford University and the City of Radford present the 24th Radford Highlanders Festival on Saturday, October 9, 2021 at Radford University's Moffett Lawn.

Schedule of Events: (All events at Moffett Lawn unless noted otherwise)
• 9:00 AM: Scottish Heavyweight Games begin
• 10:30 AM: Massed Band Performance and Clan March
• 11:00 AM: Syr performs
• 11:30 AM: PanJammers performs at Clocks Plaza
• 12:00 PM: Kinnfolk performs
• 1:00 PM: Syr performs
• 2:00 PM: Kinnfolk performs
• 3:00 PM: Syr performs

The Radford Highlanders Festival returns to the Radford University campus and brings together Scottish Highland Heavyweight Games, Celtic music, massed pipe and drum band performance, Scottish clan march, sheepherding demonstrations, children's games, craft and food vendors, beer garden and family friendly entertainment for festival lovers of all ages.

Music will be headlined by this year by Syr and Kinnfolk along with local performers PanJammers.

SYR (sire) is a Celtic Folk-Rock band from Columbia, South Carolina. What started as a small traditional cover band has evolved into a serious endeavor with a unique blend of genres. Taking inspiration from Celtic history, stories and myth, SYR blends their own rock background to create powerful songs with themes like battle, love, loss, heritage and victory.

SYR also plays Irish & Scottish drinking songs, pirate sea shanties and ballads in Gaelic even taking modern songs and adding a Celtic twist to create an interesting blend of old and new.

Links:

• http://syrmusic.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/thebandsyr
• https://www.instagram.com/syr_music/

Josh and Julie Kinn weave bouzouki, bodhran, and smooth vocal harmonies in their Celtic folk music from the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains to form Kinnfolk.

The duo’s musical style is heavily influenced by the sounds of the Roanoke, Virginia traditional Irish session, where they met in 2017. Since forming Kinnfolk in late 2018, the pair have played at festivals, breweries, and listening rooms all over the Southwest Virginia region.

Links:

• https://www.kinnfolkmusic.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/kinnfolk.music
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE3iCa3te-Z26XM-_YBy3Xg
• https://www.instagram.com/kinnfolk.music/

PanJammers is an award-winning steel drum orchestra based in Blacksburg, Virginia. The group is comprised of a variety of players, ranging from teens to adults.

Links:

• http://blacksburgsteelpans.blogspot.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/panjammers
• https://www.twitter.com/panjammers

Several unique craft and food vendors will be on hand, offering authentic Scottish fare, classic festival food and American classics, such as barbecue and funnel cakes.

The popular Tom Raisbeck Memorial Games again will feature the traditional “heavy games,” events and competitions associated with rural and military life, including weights for distance and height; the stones, similar to modern-day shotput; the sheaf toss; and the crowd-pleasing caber toss.

Whether a family’s background is of Scots-Irish origin or of other descent, the day always brings with it an air of excitement and anticipation. There is no place more beautiful than Southwest Virginia in the fall and the Blue Ridge Mountains provide a beautiful back-drop for the fall festival.

Admission is free and and all are welcome.

The festival began in the mid-1990s with an approximate crowd of 3,000. Over the past 20+ years, the festival has more than tripled in size, and now attracts an estimated crowd of 10,000 people. Whether a family’s background is of Scots-Irish origin or of other descent, the day always brings with it an air of excitement and anticipation. There is no place more beautiful than Southwest Virginia in autumn and the Blue Ridge Mountains provide a beautiful back-drop for the fall festival.

The festival is a joint partnership with the City of Radford and Radford University.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://imgur.com/sxcToMI.

For more information, visit: https://www.radford.edu/content/festival/home.html or https://www.radford.edu/content/radfordcore/home/news/releases/2021/september/highlanders-festival-2021.html or https://www.facebook.com/RadfordHighlandersFestival/ or call 540-831-6255.