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Scotfest Oklahoma in Broken Arrow
Scotfest Oklahoma is an annual Scottish and Celtic heritage festival held each September at the Broken Arrow Events Park near Tulsa. Running since the early 1980s, the three-day gathering brings together Highland athletics, bagpipe and drum competitions, clan tents, whisky tastings, and live music. Organizers announced that the 2026 festival, its forty-sixth year, will be the last, closing out nearly five decades of Highland games and Celtic tradition in Oklahoma.
Scotfest Oklahoma grew out of a smaller gathering organized by the Scottish Club of Tulsa, part of a wave of Highland games that spread across the United States in the twentieth century as Scottish-American communities sought ways to keep clan identity, bagpipe music, and Highland athletics alive far from Scotland itself.