Potomac Celtic Festival - Images by Jay J. Pulli

Welsh Storyteller

Potomac Celtic Festival

Leesburg, Virginia - June 1998

Images & Text © 1998 by Jay J. Pulli

Part of my Scottish Highland Games series

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"Bagpipes & Beyond"

Mary Washington College
Pipe Band

Seamus Kennedy

Emily Laroc

Charlie Zahm

I first heard Charlie Zahm at the 1997 Oatlands Celtic Festival, which was the name of the Potomac Celtic Festival when it was held at the Oatlands Plantation (a much nicer location, by the way). I was impressed by his strong baritone voice and his dedication to his craft. Charlie usually ends his performances with a goofy but entertaining pitch for his CD's. Last year, he was trying to raise money for shoes for his newborn child. This year, the cause was ransom money for his mother who was being held in a Turkish prison. Well I guess it must have worked on me, I bought two of his CD's each time. You can find Charlie's performance schedule at his web site.

The Pyrates Royale

Damon Hersh, Lynn Cunningham, Darcy Nair, Jennifer Bell, Craig Williams, and Brad Howard are the Pyrates Royale. They would like to stress that they do not endorse drinkin', fightin', smokin', carousin', lambada dancin', keel haulin', ouija board usin', or anything else ending with "n".

The Poor Clares

From New Orleans, the Poor Clares are Betsy McGovern, Justin Murphy, Elmon Randolph, & Beth Patterson. You can read about them, learn about their recordings, and find their performance schedule at their web site.

Harpists

The Sheath Toss

My back hurts just lookin at these guys...

Gratuitous Pretty Girl Shots

My fans would complain if I didn't include these shots!

The MacPherson Tent

My wife would complain if I didn't include this shot!

Photo Notes: shot with a Nikon N90 camera and 80-200 mm f2.8 AFD Nikkor lens, some shots with a Nikon SB25 speedlight, all on Fuji Sensia II - 100 film. Scanned onto Kodak PhotoCD, opened in Adobe Photoshop 5, Levels and Unsharp Mask filter applied, saved as jpeg files. Web page produced with Visual Page on a Power Computing Power Tower Pro 200 Macintosh clone.