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WEEKEND FESTIVALS KEEPING TRADITION AFLOAT.


Byline: Fred Shuster Staff Writer

It's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a  to don your kilt kilt

Knee-length, skirtlike garment worn by men as part of the traditional national garb, or Highland dress, of Scotland. It is made of permanently pleated wool and wrapped around the wearer's waist so that the pleats are in the back and the flat ends overlap in front.
 and cruise over to the Queen Mary Queen Mary, Queen Marie, or Queen Maria may refer to: Queens
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England

  • Mary I of England (1516–1558), queen regnant of England, was the daughter of Henry VIII of England (by his first wife Catherine of Aragon), and the
, where Scottish heritage will be celebrated aboard the Long Beach-based luxury liner this weekend. Bagpipes bagpipes
Noun, pl

a musical wind instrument in which sounds are produced in reed pipes by air from an inflated bag

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bagpipes 
 optional.

The annual Scottish Festival includes parades, live music, Highland dancing, darts and, improbably, a sheep herding competition.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places This article is about the U.S. Register. For the National Register of Historic Places in Canada see Canadian Register of Historic Places.

The National Register of Historic Places
, the Queen Mary was built on Scotland's River Clyde in the 1930s. It made 1,000 trans-Atlantic crossings before it was purchased by the City of Long Beach in 1967 and turned into a museum.

QUEEN MARY SCOTTISH FESTIVAL: Queen Mary, 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. $11 to $17, two-day tickets $15 to $23. Admission includes a self-guided tour of the ship and a seat at the Ghosts and Legends show. Call (562) 435-3511 or visit www.queenmary.com.

Also happening this weekend:

PURIM FESTIVAL: The Jewish holiday commemorates victory over oppression. Six Flags Magic Mountain's Xtreme Park, 26101 Magic Mountain Parkway, Valencia. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. $29.99 to $46.99. Kosher-food vendors. Face painting. Children's arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. . Musical performances by Cindy Paley, and local temple and youth choirs. Call (661) 255-4111 or see www.sixflags.com.

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The San Clemente Scots Pipe Band performs at this weekend's Scottish Festival in Long Beach.
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