Mark your calendars now for the 2012 Missouri Tartan Day Festivities
April 13, 14 and 15, 2012!
Entertainment
Highland Reign
Highland Reign, a Scots-American folk rock band from Indianapolis. They take the tunes of the old country and breathe a rocking new life into them!Playing traditionals such as, "The Barnyards of Delgaty", originals like, "Let Her Dance", "Raise Your Glasses", Celtic cover songs "Galway Girl" and "Run Runaway", Highland Reign has become one of America's favorite Scottish folk rock bands!
Highland Reign has sold over 10,000 CDs, with "Seven White Ponies" being their most recent release. This CD has the trademark upbeat vocals, Scottish and Irish whistles, catchy lyrics, bagpipes, and rocking guitars! Many of the songs were written while on their tour of Ireland and Scotland. Highland Reign appears at venues and festivals all across America, Scotland, and Ireland!
With wailing bagpipes, guitar, rocking percussion, and upbeat vocals, Highland Reign will rock you back to the old country!!
Mother Grove
After ten years, 7 CDs and thousands of miles on the road, Mother Grove have certainly paid their dues. While their CDs are creatively growing and evolving from one to the next and captures their sound very well, Mother Grove’s crown jewel is their live shows; High energy, fun and void of pretension, a Mother Grove show is like an intimate house concert turned up to 11. They interact with the crowd to such an extent, by the end of the evening you feel as if you’re part of the band. You’ll see them smiling, jumping, dancing and laughing on and off stage. All of which make them very approachable and sought after by pubs, festivals and venues all over the country.
Mother Grove will get you up and dancing jig after jig with their unique blend of well crafted original rock music and rousing rocked up traditional songs. But nestled between the hard hitting bagpipes, drums, bass and guitar and the sweet, rocking fiddle, penny whistle and mandolin are creative original rock songs, with lyrics that will leave you singing along, brushing back a tear or even scratching your head.
Mother Grove has built a reputation for their professionalism over the years. Pub owners, festival directors and sound techs have all heralded them as being “the most easy going band on the circuit”. While many bands might disappear after a show, you’ll find Mother Grove milling about, chatting with fans and having as much (or more!) fun as the crowd.
If you’re into rocking Celtic music, upbeat traditional, or clever and well written pop songs, you’ll find it here, for there’s truly something for everyone with Mother Grove.
Pipe Bands
Today, the 42nd Royal Highlanders Band of Music is America's premier 18th century band of pipes, fifes, and drums, and has performed for audiences across the country, from the New England coast to the Mississippi River, and from Wisconsin to Fort Ticonderoga in New York, Vermont, and south to Alabama.
The Band of Music regularly performs at historical reenactments, fife and drum musters, Scottish cultural events, pub performances, and civic parades. Additionally, musicians from the band are available for private performances at weddings, funerals, educational programs, and other functions.
A performance by the 42nd will feature the pipes, fifes, and rope-tension drums, as well as highland dancers and Infantry demonstrations by the band's colour guard. At multi-day performances, the band is based out of a recreated 18th century military camp.
The 42nd performs a wide repertoire of music - drawing primarily from 18th century sources, but incorporating selections from 20th century bagpipe collections.
John Ford Highland Pipe Band
The John Ford Highland Pipe Band is a private, not-for-profit, musical and social group of men and women dedicated to the art of piping and drumming, as well as the maintaining of the Gaelic Heritage.
Founded in 1969 by Pipe Major, Bill Sandbach, we continue to enjoy providing the Saint Louis region with a premier pipes and drum band.
St. Louis Caladonian Pipe Band
SLCPB is a dynamic new organization with a great history in Saint Louis, Missouri. Several pipers and drummers decided in the summer of 2007 to form a new pipe band, and it merged with Invera'an Pipe Band in November. It's the third name change for Invera'an, which began in 1972 as Meeting of the Waters Pipe Band. Our new name honors the first Saint Louis Caledonian Pipe Band that played sixty years ago. With 35 active members, SLCPB focuses on making the best music possible. The mission of the band is to promote Scottish piping music to the community and to provide musical instruction.
The Kilties
The Central High School Kilties were founded in 1926 by Dr. R. Ritchie Robertson, and are the first all girl drum & bugle in the United States. The corps made its first public performance in 1926 at the Rotary Convention in Springfield, MO. The corps was originally called Ritchie's Scotch Lassis, with the name the Kilties being formally adopted in 1939.
The high standards of personal conduct and musical performance have distinguished the Central High School Kilties as an outstanding parade unit. For over 80 years, the Kilties have traveled all across the U.S. performing for countless crowds. The Kilties have performed at many notable events including: marchingin Kansas City for the St. Andrew Society of Scotsmen, the Sedalia State Fair, in front of President Harry S. Truman and President Gallegos of Venezuela, in the televised coverage of the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington D.C., the 1961 Orange Bowl Parade, President George Herbert Walker Bush’s inaugural parade in Washington D.C., the 1996 Magic Music days at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, and in 2003 The Kilties, as well as the Hillcrest Highlanders, marched in London’s New Year’s Day Parade in front of England’s Queen Elizabeth II and the rest of the Royal Family.
The Kilties have proudly represented Springfield and the Ozarks all over the United States for over eighty years. The Kilties perform year round in numerous parades and events, in addition to countless school functions.
Dance Caledonia
The Missouri Tartan Day Festivities is pleased to welcome
Dance Caledonia back to our festival this year.
