"Day before St. Patrick's day" in city philarmonia.

[Tartan Hiker]

Trojanrabbit,
Welcome to X-Marks. There are some great photos on the "celtic nsk" site you linked to. Looks like people there really know how to have a good dance party!

Also, do you know the tartan that is in the background on the site? I'm guessing that the red/white/green is a national color set....Belarus perhaps?

[trojanrabbit]

Trojanrabbit,
Also, do you know the tartan that is in the background on the site? I'm guessing that the red/white/green is a national color set....Belarus perhaps?

No, it's not Belarus. I asked founder of community and primary moderator. He said that it's Irish Diaspora tartan.

[Nick]

The day before St. Patrick's day is St. Urho's Day, and is celebrated by wearing purple. St. Urho drove all the grasshoppers out of Finland.

Well, anyway, that's the tradition here. It's a Finnish-American thing, there's more Finns here than anywhere else except Finland.

[trojanrabbit]

Well, anyway, that's the tradition here. It's a Finnish-American thing, there's more Finns here than anywhere else except Finland.

I didn't know about Finnish meaning of this day but we celebrate St. Pat's day. It becomes tradition to celebrate on evening 16th mar. in last year because we didn't had good enough hall in city center for it on 17th mar. 2006.
Anyway exists old russian sentence "Kto prazdniku rad, tot nakanune p'yan" which i can translate as "Men who really enjoys celebration, starts drunk for it in previous day". But keep in mind it's not exact translation. It's hard to me to translate exact meaning of that sentence.