Long Island Scottish Festival and Highland Games

Hi L.I.S.F.H.G members, Hopefully this vaccine will be successful and if so we will be begin meetings again to plan for a Scottish Festival this year. Let's all keep our fingers crossed. We have new Corporate officers this year, Kathleen Cowie is our new President and Robert Thompson has joined the roster. Jeri Revel will be new administrator to our Facebook Page. We will be giving you monthly updates to keep you in the know about what's going on. Please keep you comments coming in so we can keep our membership going and get more people involved with our positive comments. Hope you all had a good Saint Andrews Day, Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas.

Due to the Corona Virus Pandemic, all 2020 activities at Old Westbury Gardens have been cancelled, including Clan MacDuff’s Annual Long Island Scottish Festival and Highland Games. Thank you to all of our volunteers, supporters, friends, sponsors, vendors and entertainers for your past contributions in making our annual event popular and helping keep the Scottish culture alive on Long Island. We look forward to our gathering on August 28, 2021 so mark your calendars now! St...ay safe and have a pleasant summer. Yours Aye, Officers and Members of LISF&HGC This message was written by Alison one of our new volunteers, Thank you Alison, great job.

For those of you who loved our Freestyle video yesterday, we have a treat in store for you today! Here we have Dollar Academy Pipe Band performing The Calm Bef...ore The Storm. We would be very grateful if you could take 60 seconds to sign up to our new Social Thunderclap to help The Championships get recognised: http://thndr.it/15UfwV3! You can learn more about our annual competition, The Championships, at thechampionships.org.uk #ScottishChamps2015

Happy Rabbie Burns Day. Come join us on Feb 26 for a Robbie Burns luncheon. Please reply for more information.

Hi lovers of Scottish culture, we are heading into our 60th year of the Festival so this is a big one for us.

We are looking to sign up some folks to help us out this year. As you probably figured out some of our members are well into old age and we need some new blood to continue producing the Festival each year. We are recruiting new members to help us carry on the Festival so if you want to see the Festival continue, please seriously think about joining us. We have many jobs to fill, if you have worked for a nonprofit in any way we need your talents. We have many committees that we use to breakdown the work that has to be done to produce the Scottish Festival. Things like advertising, desktop publishing, children's highland games, signing up vendors, entertainment, setting up Scottish Clan tents and their partisipants, ticketing and much more.

To all the ladies who love Scottish stuff!

Hi Scottish Fans, here is the Entertainment schedule for tomorrow's Festival August 24th

Ok Scottish lovers only 5 more days until Saturday the 24th. The Festival is open from 8:00am to 5:00pm. Parking gets busy around 11:00am so try and get there early. There is also parking at the Westbury High School with a suttle bus running from the school to Old Westbury Gardens. Lots of Entertainment, Pipe Bands, Highland Dancing, big brawny men with kilts throwing stuff around, games an and ofcoursed entertainment for the kids, Highland games and races for the kids( paren...ts, you have to sign up your child for them to compete in the Childrens Games) and ofcourse, Scotch meat pies and other bakery goods, food court, and our vendors are the best. Don't forget to buy a raffle ticket for all sorts of prizes. Investigate you roots at the Clan Tents, Learn about the Scottish culture at the Cultural Tent. Come and have a great Scottish Day!! See more

Hi Folks, The Saint Andrews Society of New York is running a bus from NYC to theFestival:LONG ISLAND SCOTTISH FESTIVAL & HIGHLAND GAMES Saturday, August 24... $35 NYCC & SAS MEMBERS $30 FOR SENIOR MEMBERS $40 NON-MEMBERS ROUNDTRIP Festival Admission not included. Visit NYCALEDONIAN.ORG for details. Bus Leaves promptly at 9:00 AM and departs at 5:30 PM PICK UP SPOT: 42ND ST BETWEEN 1ST & 2ND AV, NYC

Please don't forget to tell all your friends and Families that the SCOTTISH FESTIVAL will be performing as usual at old Westbury Gardens on August 24th.. See you all there!!

We had a meeting in Hicksville last night. Two new working members (very rare), thank you Jeri and Iris. Come and visit at our next meeting on June 17th and the Hicksville V.F.W. 8:00PM bring your friends and families. Cheers

Ok all you Scottish loving folks, The Festival is ON. We apologize for the scare about canceling it was touch and go there for a while but we have prevailed! Please contact all your friends and families to say that the Festival will go on as usual on August 24th. More and more we are in need of volunteers to help us out with planning and production of the Festival Please consider spending a few hour with us to make this a great year at the Festival. We are also looking for n...ew members to join us to prepare for the future. Wouldn't you like your children and grand children to see the Scottish Festival as you saw it as a kid? This has been a gererational thing that famlies have enjoyed for years. Please think about joining our not for profit corporation to bring the festival into the future. We are looking for individuals with fund raising skills, organizational skills, graphic arts skills, fiancial skills, please think about helping us continue on with the festival.