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LVCVA to spend $296,000 for inaugural Celtic festival
By Richard N. Velotta (contact)
The Celts are coming to Las Vegas.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of directors today authorized spending $296,000 over two years to develop a new event for the city that would bring bagpipers and drummers, Celtic dancing and athletic competitions, and a pub crawl and street party to the city next year.

The inaugural Las Vegas World Celtic Festival is planned April 7-10, 2011, at various locations throughout the city.
The festival is being developed by Las Vegas Events, the LVCVA’s privately operated events partner. The LVCVA board agreed to spend $131,000 this year and $165,000 in the next fiscal year to launch the festival.
Organizers are considering several different events and venues, including a military tattoo – a military drum performance – a bagpipe competition, a pub crawl and a ceilidh, a Celtic street party. A group already brings Celtic Highland Games to Las Vegas in April and those would be incorporated into the festival.
Las Vegas Events officials have investigated other Celtic festivals in other cities and are hoping to duplicate the flavor of those events in Las Vegas.
Organizers are hoping the initial event would draw 10,000 out-of-town visitors, which would produce a $6.6 million non-gaming economic impact on the city.
Special events developed by the LVCVA and Las Vegas Events have helped drive visitation to Las Vegas.

Pat Christenson, president of Las Vegas Events, told board members today that three special events last month produced one of the best Decembers on record for Las Vegas.
The city’s largest special event – and the oldest – is the National Finals Rodeo, which this year brought 173,700 people to Las Vegas and produced a non-gaming economic impact of $51.6 million. Since 1985, the rodeo has attracted 4 million people to Las Vegas and brought $800 million to local coffers.
Christenson said the 2009 rodeo was a landmark event because as many people came to the city to attend related events as attend the rodeo performances.
The Las Vegas Marathon and the NASCAR Champions Week banquet event also were hosted in December. Between the rodeo and the other two events, $85 million in non-gaming revenue was generated for the city, Christenson said.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/jan/12/lvcva-spend-296000-inaugural-celtic-festival/

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