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Clan Currie to Participate in St. Andrew's Day Parade Clans and Societies to Gather in Edinburgh The Clan Currie Society announced today that they will take part in the fifth annual St. Andrew's Day Parade in Edinburgh, Scotland on Saturday, December 1, 2007. The parade steps off at 12 noon and will be led by the Stockbridge Pipe Band of Edinburgh. The route will take marchers from East Market Street, across Waverly Bridge, to Princes Street and up Lothian Road, concluding at Festival Square. The event will conclude with a number of speakers, including Scottish poet and author Kevin Williamson. Curries from throughout the region are cordially invited to march in the parade behind the Currie tartan flag. Leading the delegation will be Alan Currie of West Lothian, Scotland, Clan Currie's Convener for Scotland. Currie just recently completed co-hosting the Society's international gathering at the Bute Highland Games last August. According to Society president Robert Currie, "We are proud to add this heritage day event to the growing list of programs we offer in Scotland. We encourage all our members in friends in Scotland to support this event." For further information on the St. Andrews Day Parade, please contact Alan Currie via e-mail at clansman_scotland@yahoo.co.uk. The parade committee has also established a web site at www.standrewsdayrally.com.
About The Clan Currie Society The Clan Currie Society is an international, non-profit – 501(c) 3 - cultural and educational organization, active in preserving and promoting highland heritage at Scottish Games, ethnic festivals, as well as community groups and classrooms. The Society has over 3,000 members worldwide. The organization started as a family name society in Glasgow, Scotland in 1959 to further the knowledge and appreciation of the MacMhuirich (pronounced MacVurich) bardic dynasty. The MacMhuirichs served for over 700 years as professional poets to the Lords of the Isles and later to the MacDonalds of Clanranald. The Red Book of Clanranald, one of Gaelic Scotland’s literary treasures, was penned by successive generations of the MacMhuirich family. In more contemporary times, MacMhuirich poetry and short stories have been chronicled in Alexander Carmichael’s Carmina Gadelica, Angus MacLellan’s Stories of South Uist, Thomas Owen Clancy’s The Triumph Tree (Scotland’s Earliest Poetry 550-1350) and the recently-released An Laebhar Mor – The Great Book of Gaelic. The ancient and historic MacMhuirich name and its anglicized equivalent Currie can be found throughout the Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Today, the Clan Currie Society is a leading American-based foundation that focuses on celebrating the Scots-Gaelic origins of the Currie name as well as producing programs and events to honor Scotland’s rich culture and ancestry. The Society is a leading participant in New York Tartan Week activities and created and hosts the annual Tartan Day observance at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. The Society produces a number of highly successful concerts featuring Scottish music. Principal programs include “The Pipes of Christmas” Celtic concert and their annual Burns Night dinner dance. The Society has also been a consultant and sponsor of the popular “Dressed to Kilt” Tartan Week fashion fundraiser for Sir Sean Connery’s Friends of Scotland charity. The Society currently sponsors the Harp Competitions at the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games and the Richmond Highland Games and Celtic Festival and is now preparing to award several scholarships for students wishing to further their studies in music, poetry, and dance.
Clan Currie is also venturing into the field of documentary filmmaking and traveling exhibitions with a concentration on Scottish history and the arts. Their first film, “The Crafter’s Song,” explores Tartan Day in America and is narrated by Academy Award® winning actor Cliff Robertson. The traveling exhibition, “The Life and Legacy of John Muir,” debuted at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum in 2005. The Society has been recognized as the Honored Clan at a number of Highland Games and gatherings, including the Brodick Games on the Isle of Arran, the Blairgowrie Highland Games in Perthshire, and the Clanjamfry Scottish Festival in Memphis, Tennessee. Membership in the Society is free of charge by registering on their website at www.clancurrie.com. Society members have full access to the website and receive priority notification for all events.
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