Come Home to your Ancestral Roots!

Angus & Dundee Roots Festival
6th - 13th Sept 2008

The Angus & Dundee Roots Festival will provide a focus for people whose ancestors came from Angus & Dundee to visit the area to find out more about their ancestral homeland whilst at the same time forging new friendships with like-minded people from across the globe!

This promises to be a fun, entertaining and informative week, giving you a true flavour of what life was like for your ancestors in days gone by.

The packed programme will include:

•  Opening Gala Dinner with guest speaker Nick Barratt (From TV's "Who Do You Think You Are?")
• Workshops on tracing your ancestors; Angus & Dundee family names; local dialects
• Visit to Arbroath to see how the fisher folk lived. Tour of Arbroath Abbey, scene of the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320
• Seminar on Dundee industrial heritage with tour of Verdant Works to see how the jute workers lived and worked
• Guided tour of The Howff graveyard
• A Civic Reception in the company of the Provosts of Angus and the City of Dundee
• Narrated film show with footage of Angus & Dundee in days gone by
• A traditional music workshop - your chance to try your hand at playing some of the musical instruments still in use today
• A grand farewell ceilidh to see out the week in style!

Plus lots more...

View Roots Festival Programme

All-inclusive 7 night packages will be available.

To book your package please fill out our Festival Travel Booking Form,  or contact our Central Reservations Office (Scotia Travel) at roots@scotiatravel.com, telephone 0141 305 5050 or call free on 0800 975 5955 (if you are calling from outwith the UK, please call +44 (0) 141 305 5050).

Tickets are also available for the following events:

• Gala Dinner at Guthrie Castle - Saturday 6 September
• Roots Festival BBQ - Sunday 7th September
• Farewell Ceilidh - Friday 12th September

See the Ancestral Events page for more information.

We hope you can join us for this very special event, and look forward to seeing you in 2008!

Final programme subject to amendment.