Links of Interest
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Cultural Resources
Maine Ulster Scots – The Maine Ulster Scots Project (MUSP) has been created to promote awareness of Maine’s Scots-Irish heritage and to gather and archive the histories of Maine’s Ulster-Scots families, up to and including the time of the American Revolution.
Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, Boston Branch – The Boston branch was the first branch of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society established outside the United Kingdom and, of course, the first branch in North America. Since 1950, the Branch has been promoting, entertaining, and educating an increasing community of the joys of Scottish dance and music.
University of Edinburgh, Department of Celtic & Scottish Studies – This is a new, distance learning course (conducted completely online) which offers a Post Graduate Certificate in Scottish Culture & Heritage. This commences in September this year and can be completed over 2 years part-time or 1 year full time. The flagship resource for this new course is the digital audio archive website, Tobar an Dualchais/ Kist o Riches, which currently holds almost 31,500 recordings in Scots, English and Gaelic, covering traditional music, song, folklore, social history and all forms of cultural tradition.
Township Number 4 was the northernmost and westernmost town within the British Colonies in North America from 1735 until 1760. The Saint Andrews Society of Maine, supports any site that the Scots and Indeed the Irish played any role in the early years of settlement. New England in general plays an important and pivotal role in those early early years when we were still making and finding our way through and onto another life.
Come on in and start to explore this rich and exciting resource of information as to how people lived and strived to exist.
The Scots’ Charitable Society is the oldest charitable organization in the Western Hemisphere. Originally Founded in 1657 in Massachusetts and incorporated in 1786, Scots’ aims to help people of Scottish heritage by providing relief to Scottish-American individuals and families in need, and by granting undergraduate scholarships to members of the Scottish-American community. We are Scots helping Scots.
Athletics
No Fame Games, LLC is a company that specializes in Highland Games Heavy Athletics and overall Celtic strength culture. The Saint Andrews Society of Maine are proud to announce of our alliance with them as their devotion and commitment to our heritage is without question.
Come and see them at our Highland Games !
Stage Bands/Performers
Colin Grant-Adams – Scottish balladeer. One man, one guitar – another favorite at the Maine games! As a solo artist, Colin touches every emotion with his enthusiastic, high-energy, professional and artistic performance, tailored to fit any occasion, Scottish, Irish, Folk, Schools or Workshops. His captivating repertoire of Traditional Celtic-American, bluegrass and nationally acclaimed original material, delivered with his powerful tenor voice, and fiery quick guitar together with irrepressible good humor and stories. This mixed with sing-along songs and even some unbelievable yodeling appealing to audiences of all ages.
Charlie Zahm– A Games favorite. Charlie is one of the most popular soloists at Celtic music festivals, Maritime, and American Traditional music events anywhere east of the Mississippi. With a baritone voice some have described as “coming along once in a generation,” Charlie has become one of the most successful performers on the Celtic festival circuit, weaving magical moments of Scottish and Irish history for the listener and viewer, with passion for the performance and a chosen repertoire pleasing to all members of the family. A master of the guitar as well, Charlie brings an authentic love and respect for the music he sings-and with dashes of humor and a light in his eyes, he will draw you into the stories of his songs!
Pipe Band
Dunlap Highland Band – We are a nonprofit organization, dedicated to preservation and enjoyment of Scottish music and tradition. The primary purpose of the Band is to encourage those members of the general public who are interested, especially the youth of the community, to pursue a Scottish musical education without creating financial burden. A secondary purpose is to provide instruments and/or help with uniforms for those members of the Band who would otherwise find participation impossible. We are able to accomplish these goals with the money we earn at performance events, fundraising and through the generous donations we receive from various individuals, businesses and organizations such as the St. Andrews Society of Maine.
Kora Shriners – Their mission— The Kora Highlanders are a Bag Pipe / Drum Band. In 1979 a group of Nobles envisioned putting a Pipe Band together. They started practicing on their own. On September 28, 1981, the pipe / drum unit was accepted as a new unit of Kora. The band was and is still called the Kora Highlanders. The original unit consisted of 10 members. Present membership is 18.
