Events

13th Annual Burns Dinner

Clan Ross Dinner

January 16, 2010 6:00 pm

A warm Highland invitation is extended to one and all to attend the 13th Annual Clan Ross (Manitoba Chapter) Burns Dinner. This popular event will be held on Saturday, January 16th, 2010.

On Saturday, Jan. 16th, 2010 Clan Ross will once again hold its Burns Dinner at Winnipeg's Fort Garry Hotel.  We are modestly proud that our dinner has all the traditions but dispenses with any stuffiness or excess formality. In short, it retains all the wit, warmth and humour of the poet himself.

We will include the Address to a Haggis by Archie McNicol, a Salute to the Atholl Brose by Ian Ross and the Toast to the Lassies and Response by Robert and Lynne McKibbin. Giving the Immortal Memory will be Winnipeg's Chief of Police, Keith McCaskill. There will be entertainment by the Gaelyn McGregor School of Highland Dance, and rousing Manitoba folk songs by Ted Longbottom, accompanied by fiddler Daniel Koulack ...both heard at the gala dinner after the dedication of the Selkirk Settlers Monument in 2008. John Perrin III will be our jovial Master of Ceremonies.

The event will be held in the Fort Garry's intimate lower level Club Room. Cocktails commence at 6:00, followed by a fine meal from the hotel's ever-reliable gourmet kitchen. (Veal shank and all the trimmings this year!) Kilted Highland formal dress or tuxedo is preferred, but appearing in regular jacket and tie will not result in being fed to our corral of ravenous wild haggi.

Tickets are an affordable $57.00 and will be available in December by contacting Denis Fletcher at 257-7511