tartan week

Subject: tartan week
From: GUEST,Merci
Date: 30 Mar 04 - 06:08 PM

I am surprised to see there isn't a thread on tartan week !

I am going to be out there enjoying it in New York.

I have got tickets for the Matt McGinn Tribute COncert ( www.symphonyspace.org )

Any other mudcatters going to be enjoying & particpating in Tartan Day / Week ? How do ypu celebrate it where you are ?

Subject: RE: tartan week
From: GUEST,julia
Date: 30 Mar 04 - 11:02 PM

Here in Maine we are having a celebration centered around the tartan and Scottish fiber arts.The impact and significance of the the sheep & wool industry and the tartan on Scottish history and culture is huge. We are having historic highlanders, weaving and waulking demos, folklore lectures,music and dances all fiber arts/sheep/clearances related.

Sat April 3 in Damariscotta on business route 1 at the Great Salt Bay school from 12-5
Call 207-529-5438 0r 207-688-4515 or e-mail [e-mail] or [e-mail]

See you there!

Subject: RE: tartan week
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 30 Mar 04 - 11:20 PM

The concept was started by Jean Watson of Nova Scotia.
A bit of it's history from another website:


The idea of setting aside one day each year to honour the role of Scots in the early history of Canada was put forward in the late 1980s by Mrs. Jean Watson of Nova Scotia. Mrs. Watson worked tirelessly to solicit support from politicians and Scottish groups in Nova Scotia to establish Tartan Day, eventually gaining enough support for the idea to have it accepted. She did not stop there, and continued to write letters to federal and provincial politicians and Scottish groups across Canada, urging them to adopt Tartan Day. Her persistence paid off, when the Clans & Scottish Societies of Canada endorsed her idea and convinced Ontario MPP Bill Murray to put forward a Private Member's Bill in the Ontario Legislature, to adopt Tartan Day in Ontario, which was passed on December 19, 1991, with unanimous support of all three parties. Other provinces and the Yukon Territories followed with similar resolutions, and by 2000 all, except Quebec and Newfoundland, recognized April 6th as Tartan Day.
Efforts have been made to recognize the contribution of Scots by establishing similar events to Tartan Day in other countries, but these events have usually been held on July 1st. Since July 1st is celebrated as Canada Day, the date of April 6th was chosen to celebrate Tartan Day in Canada.
On 6th April 1320, at Arbroath Abbey on the east coast of Scotland, the nobles, barons and freeholders, together with the "whole community of the realm of Scotland," subscribed a letter to Pope John XXII, asking him to recognise the country's political independence under the kingship of Robert Bruce, declaring the independence of Scotland from English domination following the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. Sir Alexander Fraser, who in 1316 married Robert the Bruce's widowed sister, Lady Mary, was appointed Chamberlain of Scotland in 1319, and his seal app"But if our King were to abandon the cause by being ready to make us, or our kingdom, subject to the King of England or to the English, we should at once do our utmost to expel him as our enemy and the betrayer of his own rights and ours, and should choose some other man to be our king, who would be ready to defend us. For so long as a hundred of us shall remain alive, we are resolved not to submit to the domination of the English. It is not for glory, wealth or honour that we are fighting, but for freedom and freedom only, which no true man ever surrenders except with his life."
Since that time, Scotland has been a sovereign nation, now part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
W. Neil Fraser, represented CASSOC at a conference of the principal organizations in the United States, convened by the Caledonian Foundation, USA Inc., in Sarasota, Florida in March 1996. During that conference he explained why it would have been inappropriate for us to choose July 1st (Canada Day), in the same way that it would be inappropriate for them to choose July 4th (Independence Day). He also reported on the efforts of CASSOC to establish Tartan Day as a national day to celebrate our Scottish heritage in Canada and explained the concept of the event celebrated in Canada since 1987. The idea was met with great interest by the participants and was subsequently adopted by the Coalition of U.S. Scottish Organizations established as a result of the Sarasota conference.
The first observance of Tartan Day on a national basis in the United States was on April 6th 1997, and a resolution proclaiming April 6th as Tartan Day was entered into the U.S. Congressional Record on the following day.

Subject: RE: tartan week
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 07:42 PM

Here's a Victoria and Albert Museum site, where you can design your own tartan online - Create a Tartan

Is there a need for a Mudcat Tartan?

Subject: RE: tartan week
From: LadyJean
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 10:48 PM

We've got a lot of Scots in Pittsburgh, so there are always a few men in kilts walking around on Tartan day. I do love men in kilts, so I DO love tartan day!!!!!
I have, so far, restrained from leering, or making comments. But I do enjoy the scenery.

Subject: RE: tartan week
From: Felipa
Date: 03 Apr 06 - 10:15 AM

Tartan Week is being celebrated in NYC this week, and probably in other places

Runrig concert in NYC 4 April: see
http://www.runrig.co.uk/n_hot.htm

I've received an e-mail about NY Tartan Week events, many take place at Grand Central Station and they include music - Peatbog Faeries and Finlay McDonald Band. see: http://www.tartanweekny.com

if I were in NY at present, I would probably go to see "Geordie - A New Scottish Musical"
VENUE:
Rose Nagelburg Theatre - Baruch College , City University of New York, 55 Lexington Avenue @ 25th Street (Between Lexington and 3rd)

DATES & TIMES:
Wednesday, April 5th, 7.00
Thursday, April 6th, 7.00
Friday, April 7th, 7.00
Saturday, April 8th, 7.00

Ticket Prices: Donation (suggested minimum of $10)
Tickets available through: Ticketcentral.com – [phone]
BPAC info line: [phone]

For tickets: http://www.ticketcentral.com

For more information, please visit the Scottish Youth Theatre page

Subject: RE: tartan week
From: GUEST,England
Date: 03 Apr 06 - 10:52 AM

Scotch cross dressing poofs

Subject: RE: tartan week
From: Megan L
Date: 03 Apr 06 - 02:05 PM

jealousy jealousy my dear

Subject: RE: tartan week
From: fiddler
Date: 03 Apr 06 - 02:38 PM

I've never seen cross dressing whisky - it should be scots at least insult my ancestors correctly!

Subject: RE: tartan week
From: GUEST,Tammy
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 12:11 PM

Oh fiddler, fiddler, don't spoil things with your silly argument. 'Scotch' is an adjective and can be applied to anything Scottish, including drink, and if you do a wee bit of research you find that the spelling of 'whiskey' was also applied to Scottish drink not that very long ago.