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Join visitors from across the globe at the inaugural Angus & Dundee Roots Festival (6th to 13th September 2008) to find out more about your ancestral homeland and forge new friendships with like-minded people.
Tickets are available to purchase from the following outlets:
Gala Dinner at GuthrieCastle
Saturday 6th September
Join us for the opening event in the Roots Festival programme, a spectacular Gala Dinner at GuthrieCastle by Forfar, in the company of the Provosts of Angus & Dundee. Ticket price includes pre-dinner drinks in the castle, marching display by Scotia Pipers, three-course Scottish dinner with coffee, half bottle of wine per person, traditional music, plus after dinner speaker Dr Nick Barratt from BBC TV's 'Who Do You Think You Are?'
Nick is founder and CEO of Sticks Research Agency, which carries out research for the BBC's flagship genealogy programme Who Do You Think You Are. He has also researched and presented the recent series Hidden House Histories for the History Channel and So You Think You're Royal (Sky One), as well as making numerous TV appearances acting as an informal spokesperson for history and genealogy. He has appeared on TV as the 'document expert' on House Detectives, and co-presented BBC2's Open University programme History Mysteries. Nick has his own weekly column in the Daily Telegraph called The Family Detective and has published several books.
Date: Saturday 6th September 2008 Venue: GuthrieCastle, by Forfar.
Ticket price: £50 per person Dress: Black Tie Time: 7pm for 7.30pm
Roots Festival BBQ
Sunday 7th September
Evening BBQ at Café Byzantium, MonikieCountryPark. Music by jazz band 'Havana Swing'. Bar facilities.
Date: Sunday 7th September 2008 Venue: Café Byzantium, Monikie Country Park
Ticket price (to include food): £12 per adult, £10 per child (16 and under) Time: 6.30pm
Farewell Ceilidh
Friday 12th September
Join us for the Farewell Ceilidh on board HM Frigate Unicorn, the world's most original wooden warship. Dance the night away in the company of Ronnie Coburn and his 'Breath of Scotland' band. Full buffet meal included. Bar facilities.
Friday 12th September 2008 Venue: HM Frigate Unicorn, Victoria Dock, Dundee
Ticket price: £20 per person (includes welcome drink and buffet)
Dress: Hint of Tartan Time: 7.30pm for 8pm
Please visit our Roots Festival page for more information about the Angus and Dundee Roots Festival.
Click here to view the Angus and Dundee Roots Festival Fringe events.
Fest'n'Furious takes place over Dundee's October Holiday weekend, traditionally known as The Fast. Dundee's traditional music festival, it celebrates roots music in a programme of live music, concerts, workshops, master classes, community performances and talks in venues throughout the city. The festival aims to showcase the thriving local music community as well as engage with the most innovative international artists.
The traditions of the city are related to its industrial heritage and influenced by the ballads and songs of the farm workers and berry pickers of the countryside in Angus, Perthshire & Fife. But this is Fest'n'Furious's unique quality, the traditions of song, and the edginess and dark humour of the city.
For 2008 the live music programme includes Session A9 & the Young Trad Tour, Koshka, Duo Lisme, Concerto Caledonia, the Mick West Band, a Youth Stage, a Choired for Sound stage which includes 6 choirs from Scotland and the rest of the UK performing their own sets and then singing work together in 'The Big Sing', as well as a festival Ceilidh. For more information visit www.festnfurious.co.uk.
Contact: Emily Dewhurst
Telephone: 01382 432473
E-mail: emily.dewhurst@dundeecity.gov.uk
Friends of Dundee City Archives - Lunchtime Talks
All talks take place in Glasite Hall, St Andrews Church, King St, Dundee on 1st Thursday of each month at 1pm.
Tayroots Family History Fair
Saturday 13th September 2008
As part of the Angus & Dundee Roots Festival 6-13 September 2008, Tay Valley Family History Society is holding a Family History Fair in the Glasite Hall and the adjoining St Andrew's Church Hall at the foot of King Street, Dundee. (www.standrewschurch.btinternet.co.uk)
10.00 am until 4.00 pm
Scottish Country Dancers
Every Sunday during July & August, Glamis Castle
Celtic Rock
5 September 2008, Glamis Castle
Scotland's Countryside Festival
6-7 September 2008, Glamis Castle
