International Events

		Portugal 2009
		The Vancouver Police Pipe Band and ten Tartan Pride dancers performed at the 20th anniversary of the Festival Internacional de Bandas Filarmónicas de Arrentela hosted by the Sociedade Filarmónica União Arrentelense of Arrentela, Seixal, Portugal... [more]
		Italy & France 2007
		At the invitation of the Vancouver Police Pipe Band, twelve Tartan Pride dancers accompanied the band to perform at the Festival international de musiques militaires in Albertville, France and the Festival Internazionale delle Bande Militari in Modena, Italy... [more]
		Alaska Cruise 2005
		Aboard Radiance of the Seas Joan Murray, twelve dancers, and piper Jim McWilliams cruised to Alaska taking in sights such as the Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau, Ketchikan, the fantastic Hubbard Glacier, and Skagway, where some of them crossed into the Yukon for a few minutes... [more]
		Netherlands 2001
		At the invitation of the Vancouver Police Pipe Band three Tartan Pride dancers accompanied the band to perform as part of the Canadian contingent in the Netherlands National Tattoo, held in Breda. Having learned the choreography by mail, the girls joined... [more]
		Scotland 2000
		Hosted by Alan Turnbull and our friends in Stirling, the fifteen dancers of TARTAN PRIDE toured extensively by bus (Loch Lomond, Loch Ness, Culloden, Inveraray, Fort William, Oban, Glencoe, etc), attended the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, and the Bridge of Allan Games... [more]
		California 1998
		TARTAN PRIDE, comprised of Director Joan Murray, piper Jim McWilliams and twelve dancers (including three from Miles City, Montana) arrived in San Francisco, saw the sights for a day then headed by car to Monterey, to appear as guest performers at the Monterey Highland... [more]
		Austria 1996
		Accepting an invitation to perform at The International Children’s Festival at Klagenfurt, TARTAN PRIDE flew to Munich, Germany in the summer of 1996. The group, including fifteen dancers, pipers Jim McWilliams and Bob Amiss, and Director Joan Murray, travelled as... [more]
		France 1994
		Early in 1994 Joan Murray was invited to take a group of dancers to France to represent Canada at the International Folk Festival in Nontron. This was the origin of TARTAN PRIDE. Joan , twelve dancers and piper Jim McWilliams travelled to Paris in July, then to... [more]