Outside the box, under the chin

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Try reaching out to the Las Vegas Emerald Society Pipes & Drums.

If there's a Burns Supper in Vegas they will probably know about it, possibly play at it.

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Good idea. I'll try there. May I ask, what's the significance of the word "emerald" in the band's name? Sadly, the link doesn't work for me. I get a facebook notice saying the link has a limited distribution list.

I've seen all sorts of things at our California Burns Suppers. Las Vegas would probably be on par.

In our Left Coast way, many men will be underdressed (by East Coast standards) and many men overdressed (by British standards).

In this milieu there's not much that could be considered a faux pas.

The overdressed men appear to go by the rule "wear everything you own".

Black Prince Charlies, black bow ties, white hose, high-laced ghillies, and strange sporrans are de rigueur but oh no it doesn't stop there, with sginean, dirks, plaids, Glengarries (with big feathers) and a dozen random pins distributed between the jacket lapels and the kilt.

Last spring when I used visiting my NYC residing son as the excuse to travel cross country for New York City's Tartan Day Parade, I worried about tucking an actual KNIFE in my kilt hose when riding the subway. That plastic distant relative of the Sgian Dubh in my avatar came in handy, but along the parade route I saw many with the real deal flashing at their knees.

If I can't find an event, I may indeed "roll my own," because the "over 55" community I've moved into here in LV has fabulous facilities for its residents, including places to host events for moderately large gatherings. And, if the HOA itself can schedule monthly "lubricated" Karaoke sessions (just IMAGINE several dozen inebriated octogenarians warbling "Hang on, Sloopy" at > 80 dB while my spouse and I are trying to have a nice quiet supper in the restaurant just across the walkway), I'm pretty certain a lone piper serenading the ersatz Haggis—made with real MEAT (lamb) so as not to trigger the health guardians at the FDA (assuming any of them who know what they're doing are still employed), would be a welcome treat for other residents (so long as the piper knows how to tune his or her drones).

IN Bozeman, we had an extrovert who'd studied YouTube videos of An Address to the Haggis long enough to at least convince the attendees that he knew what dialect and accent he was attempting to mimic. I doubt we'll be able to replicate THAT, however.

But, I know how to make rumbledethumps, and (at least in Bozeman), my contribution has been long gone while there's still plenty of home-made Haggis on offer…