The weekend is packed with interesting things to do, so let's get started: Saturday and Sunday, it’s the the Kerr County Celtic Festival and Scottish Highland Games. The Kerr County Celtic Association's Mary Ellen Cook describes it.
“It’s going to be two days of Highlands Games competitions, workshops on Bagpipes, Scottish heavy athletics, Scottish country dancing, history, [and] Geneology. We’re going to have performances by the San Antonio Highland Dancers and the San Antonio Scottish Bluebonnet Dancers and also the Celtic band Ravenmoor that’s from San Antonio.”
[to hear Ravenmoor hit "Listen" above]
It all happens on the grounds at the Hill Country Arts Foundation’s Point Theater in Ingram, which has this added bonus.
“That’s the location of Texas’s own 7/8ths [scale] Stonehenge.”
Yes, in case you didn’t know, Texas has replica Stonehenge, although it's not quite the size of the original.
Then, are you one of those San Antonians who never goes downtown? Maybe downtown confuses you. Centro San Antonio's Tony Piazzi thinks so.
"You have the River Walk at one level and then you have the street level and sometimes when you’re going between the two you find yourself turned around a little.”
But there’s a fix for that confusion. It comes in the form of the gold-shirted Ambassador Amigos who offer free tours so you can get to know downtown.
"We do offer tours daily; meet at 10 AM out in front of the Alamo. And we’ll do a tour of the Alamo area, then we’ll go over to La Villita, and then continue from there along the River Walk. It’s about an hour-long tour and it gives people a taste of what our downtown has to offer."
After you do that you’re going to need some air conditioning and they’ve got it at the Woodlawn Theater! The Woodlawn's Christopher Rodriguez assures that.
“Even though it is sweltering in Texas right now, it is cool inside the theater.”
Rodriguez devised the choreography for and directs their current production, one of both Broadway and Hollywood's biggest hits.
“We have West Side Story opening at the Theater. It opens tonight.”
The re-telling of Romeo and Juliet set in gang-ridden New York City in the late 50s has become a classic, Rodriguez says especially for its music.
“Some of the most iconic songs from West Side Story are probably America, Tonight, Something’s Coming. A lot of Broadway favorites in this show.”
For more on the Kerr County Celtic Festival and Scottish Highland Games go here.
For more on the Ambassador Amigos program g0 here.
For more on the Woodlawn Theater production of West Side Story go here.
