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 6, 2025
- TIME: 12:30 -1:30 PM
- LOCATION: Bryant Park
- TICKETS: No tickets required. The event is for all the community.
Musical Program includes:
- Shot of Scotch
- Noisemaker
- Calum Pasqua
- Jai McDowall
- The Laurettes
Performers
Shot of Scotch, Highland Dance Troupe
The members of Shot of Scotch all have solid backgrounds in competitive highland dance and many are teachers with a wide range of skills including Scottish country dance, singing, guitar, fiddle, tap dance, acting and more that allows them to explore far beyond the expected bounds of a Scottish highland dance troupe!
Shot of Scotch has been seen performing all across the lower mainland and around the world. A highlight of 2016 was an invitation to Paris France to perform and teach at the 8th Annual International Body Music Festival, a large international gathering of top caliber artists from all across the globe.
The dance company has worked with Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas, the Royal Academy of Bhangra, the Seaforth Highlanders, RCMP Division “E” Pipes and Drums, popular Celtic band Blackthorn, Vancouver Fiddle Orchestra, among may other pipers, fiddlers and renowned musicians. The dance company has also collaborated with other ethnic dance groups including Serbian and South Asian troupes for a unique multi-cultural persenation.
Shot of Scotch brings innovation, showmanship, and passion for highland dancing to every event.
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.
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.