NYC Tartan Day Parade - 2015

**frank_a** · 13th April 15, 10:13 AM

It was a perfect picture day for a parade. Here's the lovely wife and I just before the parade, seated at the corner of 45th and 6th:

And my fellow members of the St. Andrews Society City of Albany that marched:

**Jack Daw** · 13th April 15, 12:22 PM

I go to NYC for business every year for about 5 or 6 weeks and I make a point to get a meal at St. Andrews Pub & Restaurant. There is a nice selection of brews and scotches to sample.

**frank_a** · 13th April 15, 12:26 PM

Originally Posted by Jack Daw

I go to NYC for business every year for about 5 or 6 weeks and I make a point to get a meal at St. Andrews Pub & Restaurant. There is a nice selection of brews and scotches to sample.

We usually have lunch there before the parade. Fish & chips for me, with a Belhaven Red!

Frank

**AFS1970** · 13th April 15, 02:39 PM

It was great to meet those I met. Sorry I disappeared at the end. I met up with some friends who said they were going to Connolly's. Little did I know it was a different Connolly's than my new friends from Clam Malcolm were at.

**Mael Coluim** · 13th April 15, 03:06 PM

Originally Posted by AFS1970

It was great to meet those I met. Sorry I disappeared at the end. I met up with some friends who said they were going to Connolly's. Little did I know it was a different Connolly's than my new friends from Clam Malcolm were at.

LOL on the mix up on the location of Connolly pub. Actually the one you went to was closes to the parade's end. The one we went to next to the Perfect Pint was near where Rick had left his car. It soon filled up with pipe bands.

**Mael Coluim** · 14th April 15, 12:34 PM

Here is a pic that was posted today on the Face Book page of NYC Tartan Week.

"A great thank-you to Grand Marshal Graham McTavish and Honorary Grand Marshal Tricia Marwick, MSP!"

**AFS1970** · 16th April 15, 10:36 AM

Two last bits of weirdness, although one was quite cool.

As we left (the other) Connolly's we found a strange little bar attached to an Italian restaurant and stopped in. When we left there the hosetess asked me whay she saw so many people in kilts over the last couple of days. I told her it was because of the parade, and she said:

"Oh right, because of the Passover".

You gotta love it.

The next day my wife and I went to Ellis Island to see the exhibit on Captain Kidd put on by Clan Currie. As we were walking up to the security checkpoint there was a man playing a steel drum. He was playing various island themed songs and generally adding to the flavor of the waterfront. When he saw me coming he stopped in mid song and started playing Scotland the Brave. That is the first time I had ever heard that played on a Steel Drum which was kind of cool. That got me to thinking, he had to already know the song and how to play it. It there some sort of connection that I have missed all these years?

**tpa** · 13th April 15, 02:41 PM

Thanks for the pictures guys, a great tribute to the strength of Scottish heritage across the pond.

**bonnie heather** · 20th April 15, 04:56 AM

Here's our highland dance group, Shot of Scotch, dancing a traveling reel step up Sixth Avenue in the Tartan Day parade. The premier dancers were in the lead, with the advanced student dancers (including me in my Wallace kilt), and next the wee little dancers . It was so much fun!