Tartan Day Toronto: April 2013

Tartan Day Raises $500.00 For The Sick Kids Foundation

Tartan Day Raises $500.00 for the Sick Kids Foundation.

Unfortunately Tartan Day only raised $500.00 for Sick Kids, which was a huge drop in last years figure of $4000.00. This years Tartan Day Dance made a loss due to having to pay for a venue and for a significant drop in numbers compared to 2012. Many Scottish organizations decided that they would hold their own Tartan Day events and I believe this is why the numbers fell by over a 100. The $500.00 raised was donated by the Sons of Scotland who were one of our sponsors. Tartan Events Limited picked up all the losses on the night and provided free sound and lighting and event promotion.

I hope that we can find more sponsors for next year and that the Scottish communities and organizations can all pull together to make Tartan Day a big event in Toronto. If you know of any companies interested in providing a venue or sponsorship please send an email to dale@tartanevents.ca

The Tartan Day Dance at Currie Hall

Tartan Day Dance at Currie Hall

This years event was held at Currie Hall, which had a great dance floor although was a smaller venue from last year. Everyone had a great time with performances from the RSCDS Children and Adult demo team and Highland dancing from the Nancy Richards School of Highland Dancers.

Photographs were kindly taken by Ray Vella - Website at www.rayvellaphoto.com or contact Ray at
rayv.vella@rogers.com

Caller: John Bark

RSCDS Demonstration Team - From left to right:

Christine McIntyre, Deirdre Bark, Dennis Ridley, Valerie Fisher, Douglas Worling, Heather Fawkes, Ken Adamson, Glenna McDonald, John Clarke, Teresa Malek.

Dancers from the Nancy Richards School of Highland Dancers

Many thanks going out to Moira Korus, Keith Bark, Teresa Lockhart and Deirdre Bark from the RSCDS (Royal Scottish Country Dance Society - Toronto Branch and Nancy Richards from the Nancy Richards School of Highland Dancers,

For more pictures of the event please click on the link below

Flickr Link

Tartan Day at the CP24 Studio's

CP24 Breakfast Show 2013

I was once again invited to come down to the CP24 Studio's on Queen Street to promote Tartan Day 2013. It was a great morning and met with the same team from last years Breakfast Show; CP24 Producer, Milan Zelovic and Presenters, Pooja Handa, Gurdeep Ahluwalia and Jamie Gutfreund.

Moira Korus from the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society kindly organized children to perform a demonstration dance on the show. They all did a fabulous job and coped with dancing in the cold temperatures.

The 48th Highlander Pipes and Drums also kindly agreed to performed on the show - luckily the the cold temperatures didn't affect the bagpipes, although I would imagine the players were very cold.

You can watch the entire CP24 Breakfast Show on Youtube by going to this link

Pictures of the morning on CP24.