Colorado Tartan Day

[Nighthawk]

From the website of Nine News:

"You don't have to wear a kilt or play a bagpipe, but it may help get you in mood for the 1st Annual Colorado Tartan Day. The celebration in honor of Scottish heritage and culture will be on April 5th at the Highland Hills Golf and Entertainment Complex in Westminster.

Colorado's Tartan Day is a great way to learn about Scots. There will be dozens of events including performances by traditional Scottish Highland dancers, bagpipe and drummers, Highland Tea, a Ceildh party, a "Kilted Golf Tournament" (again, kilts not required), and even a Scotch tasting for Scots 21 and older.

Historians will even be on site to share their knowledge of Scottish heritage."

The "historians on site" included my group, the Renaissance Scots. It was a great Tartan Day festival, with a lot of interesting and interested people. I set in with the weavers today, and I watched Mark weaving a length of the Colorado state tartan. I've never done that... I also bugged him with questions that the audience might never have thought of, like the difference between ancient, modern and weathered tartan. And to top it all off- I met up with several of our board members, including Mudd and Livingston! That made the whole day just that much better.

Everyone else having a lovely Tartan Day celebration? Time for a wee dram o' scotch...

[Nighthawk]

Oh, and if anyone is interested, here's the website to our wee but growing living history group: http://www.renscots.org/

Check us out! The website is a touch primitive, but I'm slowly fixing that little problem.

[Erisianmonkey]

It sounds like it was a great time. Sorry I missed it. Then again, I'm down with a chest cold that is one of the worst I've had in years. I'm hoping to make kilt night next month, we'll see what happens.

[Nighthawk]

It sounds like it was a great time. Sorry I missed it. Then again, I'm down with a chest cold that is one of the worst I've had in years. I'm hoping to make kilt night next month, we'll see what happens.

Yeah, it was a good time. I didn't make Kilt Night because of my commitment to the Ren Scots, but it was great meeting the other X Markers who were there.

[Livingston]

It was a great day. There were 6 members there and several of the organizers came up and thanked me/us for coming and promoting it here. They got a lot larger turnout then they expected and are in the process of looking for a new location for next year.

I'll have a photo post up after I get everything converted to jpegs.