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2025 TARTAN WEEK EVENTS

Celebrate Scotland on the Fountain Terrace as we bring you a variety of pipe bands, singers and musicians to perform for you

Event Information

  • DATE: Sunday April 12, 2026
  • TIME: 12:30 -1:30 PM
  • LOCATION: Bryant Park
  • TICKETS: No tickets required. The event is for all the community.

Musical Program includes:

  • Whisky Kiss
  • Noisemaker - Atlantic A Scotish Story (excert)

Performers

Whisky Kiss

Collectively, Whisky Kiss celebrate their roots as a leading Ceilidh band. We enjoy breathing new life into the fabulous old traditions & tunes, working with some of Scotland's leading DJ's / producers and are proud to have topped the iTunes charts in multiple countries.

Whisky Kiss Members include...

Murray Fergusson (violin) - trained at Prague Royal Conservatoire of Music, ex-Belle & Sebastian fiddler from Balerno (Edinburgh) who has played Sydney Opera House, Glastonbury, Coachella & beyond.

Iain MacPhail (bass/accordion/MC) - one of the exclusive club of accordionists with an iTunes no1 in multiple countries, Iain is also been the "voice of Visit Scotland" being voiceover artist on 3 worldwide Visit Scotland adverts.

Larry Deveney (drums) - joined Whisky Kiss after starring with Scotland's leading function bands, a drummer from Greenock, Larry was the face of a recent Visit Scotland ad.

Ali Levack, David Shedden & Ciaren Ross (bagpipes & whistles) - the band are blessed with three hugely gifted pipers, who alternate throughout the year. Ali & Dave were BOTH finalists in the BBC Young Trad Musician of the Year Award 2018, while Ciaren has enjoyed gigs with Whisky Kiss from AECC to Beijing to New York.

Noisemaker

Noisemaker is the award-winning writing partnership of Scott Gilmour and Claire McKenzie. Both graduates of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the pair work throughout the UK and internationally to create and develop innovative, original stories that celebrate and challenge the form of musical theatre.

Now ten years later, Noisemaker have worked across the globe: from Glasgow to New York, London to Chicago, we’ve collaborated with a wide variety of companies and artists to find new and compelling ways of storytelling and further explore how music and song may be used to connect with and affect our audiences.

As a Scottish partnership, we began writing and developing our work in Glasgow initially before expanding to theatres and audiences throughout the UK. In 2015, we were chosen by Walt Disney Imagineering and NMI Inc. for their New Voices Award. This scheme recognises the most promising new writing talent in the field of musical theatre and resulted in a concert of our work in Burbank, Hollywood plus expert songwriting mentorship. It also began to share our work on an international scale.



Atlantic- A Scottish Story Set against the backdrop of the remote island of St Kilda, Atlantic weaves original and traditional Scottish music with true stories and rich characters to tell a deeply moving tale of a community on the edge of the world.

Atlantic: A Scottish Story is part of the Carnegie Hall Festivals - United in Sound: America at 250 programing.

Calum Pasqua

Brooklyn native Calum Pasqua is a fiddler and highland bagpiper, specializes in Scottish Fiddle styles of both the northeast and west highlands of Scotland. Calum was the first American to be both, invited to, and win, the Glenfiddich Fiddle Championship, held at Blair castle in Blair Atholl Scotland. He also holds titles as National Scottish Fiddle champ and was declared Fiddler To the Marquis of Huntly in 2008.

Jai McDowall

Jai McDowall won the fifth season of Britain’s Got Talent, capturing the hearts of a nation with his powerhouse vocals, natural charm, and versatile song interpretations touring extensively throughout the UK, Europe and China.

Most recently Jai joined world renowned singer, Susan Boyle on her 2020 tour playing arenas around the UK. Throughout 2022 Jai starred alongside G4 frontman Jonathan Ansell in a UK wide tour of Les Musicals. Jai is currently performing with X factor group G4 on their 20th anniversary tour

The Laurettes

The Laurettes are an energetic all female band making big noise around Scotland, the UK and very soon to be further afield. The Laurettes have frequented the Festivals such as Tiree Music Festival, Islay Whisky Festival, Mull Music Festival and Rally, Doune The Rabbit Hole, Eden, Lindisfarne, Bute Fest, The Edinburgh Fringe and many more.