{"id":90742,"date":"2025-05-10T18:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T18:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/90742\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T18:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T18:50:18","slug":"edinburgh-tartan-parade-2025-the-edinburgh-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/90742\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh Tartan Parade 2025 &#8211; The Edinburgh Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        It was a small group of six volunteers who made the Tartan Parade (dreamed up by Tania Pramschufer of Hand Up Events) become a reality. And they did a fabulous job.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday some 1,600 people registered to take part in the inaugural Edinburgh Tartan Parade and marched through the city centre in bright sunshine<\/p>\n<p>This event is modelled on the New York City Tartan Day Parade held on or near Tartan Day (6 April) each year for the last quarter of a century. <\/p>\n<p>In New York the custom is to have a personality to lead the parade as Grand Marshal and on Friday night it was announced that Kyle Dawson the President of the National\u00a0Tartan\u00a0Day New York Committee would be the dignitary on the parade.<\/p>\n<p>The Rt Hon Lord Provost, Robert Aldridge, and TV personality, Gail Porter also followed the High Constables of Edinburgh. <\/p>\n<p>From Shetland there were two Jarl Squads \u2013 sponsored by Northland Ferries who brought them across the sea to the mainland so that they could then make their way to Edinburgh to take part. The Shetlanders are also stalwarts of the New York parade.<\/p>\n<p>We have hundreds of photos to process as well as video (it will take ages!), but for now here are some photos\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The names of all those taking part in the first Edinburgh Tartan Parade were: <\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u25cf The Rt. Hon. Lord Provost and Lord Lieutenant of the City of<\/li>\n<li>Edinburgh &amp; six High Constables,<\/li>\n<li>Kyle Dawson President of The National Tartan Day New York Committee,<\/li>\n<li>Gail Porter Fair Trade Ambassador<\/li>\n<li>\u25cf Tartan Parade Scotland Organising Team<\/li>\n<li>\u25cf Tartan Parade Scotland Friends &amp; Family<\/li>\n<li>\u25cf Pulse of the Place<\/li>\n<li>\u25cf World Fair Trade Tartan<\/li>\n<li>\u25cf The City of Edinburgh Council<\/li>\n<li>Depute Lord Provost, Council Leader, The Bailies, Political Group Representatives, City O\ufb03cers &amp;<\/li>\n<li>Edinburgh Captain and Lass<\/li>\n<li>\u25cf Edinburgh Police Division Senior Management Team<\/li>\n<li>\u25cf The Court of the Lord Lyon<\/li>\n<li>\u25cf The Heraldry Society of Scotland<\/li>\n<li>\u25cf James Gillespie\u2019s High School Pipe Band<\/li>\n<li>\u25cf LNER<\/li>\n<li>\u25cf Belhaven Brewery<\/li>\n<li>\u25cf ScotlandShop<\/li>\n<li>\u25cf The Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs<\/li>\n<li>\u25cf Denny High School Dance Academy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The second group taking part in the parade comprised: <\/p>\n<p><strong>Group 1 Section 2<\/strong><br \/>The Royal Mile (High Street)<br \/>\u25cf Clan McKay Drummers<br \/>\u25cf Clan Mackay Society of Scotland<br \/>\u25cf Color Guard of the St. Andrew\u2019s Society of Washington D.C.<br \/>\u25cf Caithness Youth Pipe Band<br \/>\u25cf Clan Italia<br \/>\u25cf Lindsay School of Dancing<br \/>\u25cf Chest Heart &amp; Stroke Scotland<br \/>\u25cf New York Caledonian Club<br \/>\u25cf Balerno &amp; District Schools Pipe Band<br \/>\u25cf International Tartans<br \/>\u25cf The American-Scottish Foundation<br \/>\u25cf National Records of Scotland<br \/>\u25cf Clan MacLennan Scotland Association<br \/>\u25cf Accrington Pipe Band<br \/>\u25cf Nesting Jarl Squad<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group 2 Section 1<\/strong><br \/>St Giles Street<br \/>\u25cf Display Team of Champion Drum Majors: THE FORCE (Group 1)<br \/>\u25cf Association of Chinese Entrepreneurs in Scotland<br \/>\u25cf Hawick Scout Pipe Band<br \/>\u25cf The Society of William Wallace<br \/>\u25cf Cheryl Heggie School of Dance<br \/>\u25cf Samaritans Scotland<br \/>\u25cf Pentland Caledonia Pipe Band<br \/>\u25cf Witches of Scotland<br \/>\u25cf Still Rollin\u2019 \u2013 A Bay City Rollers Fan Community<br \/>\u25cf Gleadhraich<br \/>\u25cf Bay City Rollers Fan Community<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group 2 Section 2<\/strong><br \/>St Giles Street<br \/>\u25cf Scouts Scotland Pipe Band<br \/>\u25cf Sarah Hendry School of Dance<br \/>\u25cf Autism Acceptance Tartan<br \/>\u25cf Association of Hackney Carriage Drivers<br \/>\u25cf Stockbridge Pipe Band Edinburgh<br \/>\u25cf Clan Lamont Society<br \/>\u25cf College of Master Kilt Tailors<br \/>\u25cf Ban\ufb00 Castle Pipe Band<br \/>\u25cf Promotional Warehouse<br \/>\u25cf Lochcarron<br \/>\u25cf Brenda Ronnie School of Highland Dance<br \/>\u25cf SAPD Pipe Band<br \/>\u25cf Grassmarket Tartans<br \/>\u25cf Discovery Dance<br \/>\u25cf 21st Century Kilts<br \/>\u25cf Eagle Pipers Society<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group 3 Section 1<\/strong><br \/>West Parliament Square<br \/>\u25cf Display Team of Champion Drum \u25cf Scottish Arts Club<br \/>\u25cf Burntisland &amp; District Pipe Band<br \/>\u25cf Individual Parade Participants<br \/>\u25cf Individual Parade Musicians led by Pipe Major Bob Orridge<br \/>\u25cf History Matters Ltd<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group 3 Section 2<\/strong><br \/>West Parliament Square<br \/>\u25cf Scotpipe<br \/>\u25cf Fair City Baton Twirlers<br \/>\u25cf Armstrong<br \/>\u25cf Pidfiguny Family<br \/>\u25cf Dunfermline District (RBLS) Pipe Band With guests from East Riding Pipe Band<br \/>\u25cf Crofthead Farm Community Centre<br \/>\u25cf Universal fans of the Bay City Rollers<br \/>\u25cf Moodiesburn and District Pipe Band<br \/>\u25cf Reely Jiggered<br \/>\u25cf Tartan Creations by Yvonne Macrae<br \/>\u25cf Tynecastle Youth Community Pipe Band<br \/>\u25cf Delting Jarl Squad<br \/>\u25cf Combined Banchory and Robert Gordon\u2019s College Pipe Bands<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/2025\/05\/edinburgh-tartan-parade-2025\/?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1746903017_466_pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/2025\/05\/edinburgh-tartan-parade-2025\/?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1746903018_859_print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"m-a-box-avatar-url\" href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/author\/phyllis-stephen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1746903018_91_Phyllis-Summer-2022-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-100x100 size-100x100\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Founding Editor of The Edinburgh Reporter.<br \/>Edinburgh-born multimedia journalist and iPhoneographer.<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a small group of six volunteers who made the Tartan Parade (dreamed up by Tania Pramschufer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4154,4155,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-90742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-edinburgh-local-news","11":"tag-edinburgh-news","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114485043119178366","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}