The Keith Highlanders Pipe Band returns to KPC, celebrating their 12th year at the Kirkland Performance Center!

Enjoy the best of traditional Scottish piping, drumming and Highland dancing from the most successful pipe band in the Puget Sound area.  A complete sellout at last year's three concerts, the Keith Highlanders Pipe Band (www.khpb.org), returns to KPC, bringing the finest Celtic entertainment available in the Pacific Northwest to Kirkland!

Special guests this year will be:

• Hanz Araki and Friends: Irish flute player Hanz Araki (www.hanzaraki.com) is the quintessential world music musician. He has performed around the world with the Juno Award-winning Paperboys, The Bridies, Casey Neill and an all-star tribute to The Pogues called "K.M.R.I.A." He has played with the Seattle Symphony, the University of Washington Wind Ensemble and is featured on more than a dozen recordings and soundtracks, from feature films and documentaries to popular video games.  He is a favorite performer at festivals across the United States, from the Northwest Folklife Festival in Seattle to the Milwaukee Irish Festival to Celtic Connections in Glasgow, Scotland. He and a few friends join us this year to wow the audience with fast driving jigs and reels, beautiful melodies, and lively dances.
   
• Champion Solo Piper Jori Chisholm (www.bagpipelessons.com) of the six-time World Champion Simon Fraser University Pipe Band (SFU) (http://www.sfupipeband.com) joins the KHPB in concert to play some of the finest solo piping to be found anywhere in the world.  Jori is the first winner of the United States Gold Medal Piping Championship and recently returned to Seattle from Scotland, where he competed in a number of solo events and won top prizes, including winning the 2009 World Pipe Band Championships this August with SFU.
   
• Highland Dancers from The Bentzen School of Highland Dance (www.bentzenschool.com). Based in Bellevue, WA, The Bentzen School of Highland Dance is one of the finest studios in the Pacific Northwest, with students competing and performing at the local, regional, and national level. Led by instructors Kiki Bentzen and Inge Merry (nee Bentzen), both former champion dancers, the dancers from the Bentzen School of Highland Dance will perform traditional Scottish and choreographed dances, and will amaze the audience with their athleticism and grace.

Help celebrate our 12^th year of concerts at the KPC – tickets are going faster than ever before, so order early to guarantee your seat for the best Celtic entertainment in town!

For tickets and box office information, visit: www.kpcenter.org