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Tartan Day Ceilidh
This event is Free for all ages!
When: Sunday, April 1, 2012 - 1pm to 5pm
Winfrey Point Drive
White Rock Lake Dallas
East side of the lake, near the Dallas Arboretum.
Bring your lunch and a blanket and enjoy a picnic overlooking White Rock Lake!
The hillside around Winfrey Point House is frequently "dotted"
with families enjoying a Sunday afternoon picnic. Treat your family to Scottish music,
sailboats on the lake, a relaxing picnic on the hillside and
join us as we celebrate
National Tartan Day,
with a festive gathering known in Scotland and Ireland as a ceilidh (like: kay-lay
or kay-lee). The afternoon event will be filled
with the sounds of bagpipes, drums and Celtic music
courtesy of: the
The North Texas Caledonian Pipes & Drums;
Seamus Stout;
Double Portion and the K3 Sisters (A welcome
addition to our ceilidh line-up, back in 2009!); demonstrations of
Highland dancing, courtesy of the
Dallas Highland Dancers;
traditional Scottish country dancing and more. Representatives of a couple of
Scottish clans are generally on on hand to share with you
something of their clan customs and heritage.
Did you know that by some estimates
40% of U.S. Presidents have had ancestral ties to Scotland?
Clans Munro, Buchanan, and Grant are all "still alive and well" today!
(James Monroe [5th president], James Buchanan
[15th] and Ulysses S. Grant [18th].)
Did you know that Austin, Dallas and Houston are
all Scottish names? There's even small town in northern Scotland today, called
Dallas!
Andrew Carnegie and
Andrew Mellon (49th, U.S. Treasury Secretary),
for whom
Carnegie Mellon
University is named, were both of Scottish descent.
The first man to walk on the moon,
Neil Armstrong, is descended from the southern border
clan of the same name. At least two letters from him, on NASA letterhead, can be
seen at the Clan Armstrong Centre and Museum, in
Gilnockie Tower, near Canonbie, Scotland.
Educational displays at the ceilidh will address: "Why we
celebrate National Tartan Day."
The information presented describes the contributions that
Scots have made to Texas, the U.S. and the world at large. From
inventors, scientists and medical pioneers; to engineers, industrialists,
poets and authors; to political theorists and theologians, people from
this tiny (and often very poor) island nation have made significant
contributions in almost every field of human endeavor since the early 18th
century! (For more see:
"Why Tartan Day?")
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