* Tartan Day ( United States & Canada )

* International Tartan Day ( Australia and New Zealand )

The Lower North Shore's other main festivals / events include: Tartan Day at Lane Cove, the Guringgai Festival honouring northern Sydney's Aboriginals, the Moocooboola Festival at Hunters Hill, the Mosman Festival, Lane Cove's Cammeraygal Festival, Chinese New Year at Chatswood.

The Tartan has traditionally published an annual joke issue called the " Natrat " ( Tartan spelled backwards ) on April Fool's Day.

Sean Connery at a Tartan Day celebration in Washington D. C. with members of the Air Force Reserve Command | USAF Reserve Pipes and Drums.

In Australasia the similar International Tartan Day is held on July 1, the anniversary of the repeal of the 1747 Act of Proscription that banned the wearing of tartan.

In 1982, under the auspices of the New York Caledonian Club, New York State Governor Hugh Carey, and New York City Mayor Ed Koch declared July 1, 1982, as Tartan Day, a one-time celebration of the 200th anniversary of the repeal of the Act of Proscription of August 12, 1747, the law forbidding Scots to wear tartan.

On March 9, 1986, a ' Tartan Day ' to promote Scottish heritage in Canada, was proposed at a meeting of the Federation of Scottish Clans in Nova Scotia.

Jean Watson, President of Clan Lamont, petitioned provincial legislatures to recognize April 6 as Tartan Day.

The day has been promoted as International Tartan Day in Australia since 1996 and has been formally recognized by many states, but not at national level.

The United States Senate recognized April 6 as Tartan Day in 1998.

The Tartan Day parade of Scottish porteños was inaugurated in Buenos Aires on April 6, 2006 and is organized every year by the Scottish Argentine Society.

* National Tartan Day USA

* New York Tartan Day Site

* National Capital Tartan Day Committee, Inc.

* Minnesota Tartan Day Site

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* Tartan Day ( 6 April ), a celebration of Scottish heritage

Member of the cross-party group in the Scottish Parliament on Tartan Day,

NYC is not the only large city to celebrate Tartan Day, there is also large events that take place in Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, California, Chicago, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Québec, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and throughout Europe.

Tartan Day parade in New York City.

The boundary of Millidgeville is typically thought to begin at the " Y " intersection of Somerset Street and Millidge Ave or right after Tartan St.

The design of the Northumbrian or Border Check ( fabric ) | Check is one of the earliest styles of Tartan in Northern Europe.

Tartan High School is located within the city's boundaries, and serves the southern half of Oakdale.

Tartan Fields Golf Club, which hosted the LPGA's Wendy's Championship for Children from 2002 through 2006, is in the village of Tartan Fields that neighbors Dublin.

The Royal Stewart Tartan is worn by the battalion's Pipes and Drums to reflect the status of Royal regiment.

Once approved by the Lord Lyon, after recommendation by the Advisory Committee on Tartan, the clan tartan is then recorded in the Lyon Court Books.

The police boxes in Glasgow on Great Western Road is leased as a coffee and donut kiosk, Cathedral Square is leased as the " Tartan Tardis ," selling Scottish memorabilia, and Buchanan Street are currently under licence to a Glasgow-based ice cream outlet.

Tartan is a pattern consisting of criss-crossed horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colours.

Tartan is particularly associated with Scotland.

Tartan is one of the patterns known as plaid in North America, but in Scotland, a plaid is a tartan cloth slung over the shoulder, or a blanket.

Tartan is made with alternating bands of coloured ( pre-dyed ) threads woven as both warp and weft at right angles to each other.

Tartan is recorded by counting the threads of each colour that appear in the sett.

However when this pattern is used on such vehicles, in certain countries, it is called a Sillitoe Tartan.

The little known " Pollock Tartan " ( red, green, pale green and white ) is similar to the Maxwell tartan and several Pollok daughters married Maxwell clansmen.

Training is done on the Tartan track at the Gerlingen sporting grounds and at the gymnasium at the Wenden school centre.

The Tartan, formerly known as The Carnegie Tartan, is the original student newspaper of Carnegie Mellon University.

Laidlaw is considered to be the first book of Tartan Noir, despite the author calling the genre " ersatz ".

The Annual Tartan Week celebrations come to life every April with the largest celebration taking place in New York City.

Setts may be registered with the International Tartan Index ( ITI ) of the charitable organisation Scottish Tartans Authority ( STA ), which maintains a collection of fabric samples characterized by name and thread count, for free, and / or registered with the Scottish Register of Tartans ( SRT ) of the statutory body the National Archives of Scotland ( NAS ), if the tartan meets NAS's criteria, for UK ₤ 70 as of 2010.

Newcastle Brown Ale became a brand of Scottish & Newcastle after the merger of Scottish Brewers with Newcastle Breweries in 1960 where it became a flagship brand alongside McEwan's Export and Younger's Tartan Special.

McDermid considers her work to be part of the " Tartan Noir " Scottish crime fiction genre.

The Scottish Parliament has legislative authority for all non-reserved matters relating to Scotland, and has a limited power to vary income tax, nicknamed the Tartan Tax, a power it has yet to exercise.

The Scottish National Liberation Army ( SNLA ), sometimes dubbed the ' Tartan Terrorists ', was a militant group which aimed to bring about Scottish independence from the United Kingdom.

Other artists to have recorded versions include Daniel O ' Donnell, The Chancers, Portland, Frank Patterson, Ronan Tynan, Brush Shiels, James Galway, The Dubliners, Charlie Haden with daughter Petra Haden, Seanchai & The Unity Squad, Scottish band North Sea Gas, Newcastle upon Tyne band, Kelda with vocalist Jack Routledge, Yonkers-based group Shilelagh Law, California punk band No Use for a Name, New Zealanders Hollie Smith and Steve McDonald, Dropkick Murphys, The Durutti Column, by the Canadian group The Tartan Terrors, The High Kings, the Epcot-based band Off Kilter, and by Dr. Kieran Moriarty and friends.

The band won a Tartan Clef award in 1997 as the best new Scottish band.

In Nova Scotia, Kirking of the Tartan ceremonies have become an integral part of most Scottish Festivals and Highland Games.

The Scottish Government also criticised the Tartan Army, commenting that it had " tarnished " their reputation.

Politically, the Scottish National Party enjoyed the support of almost two in five Tartan Army members.

The Tartan Army received a nomination in the inaugural International Scot Award, as part of The Herald newspaper's Scottish Politician of the Year ceremony, for their charitable work.

The Tartan Army Children's Charity ( TACC ) is a registered Scottish charity run by Scotland fans, raising money for disadvantaged children in Scotland and in the countries visited by fans following the team.

Prior to the 1998 FIFA World Cup, Keith Lumsden designed a corporate tartan for the Tartan Army which was registered on 1 March 1997 under number 2389 with both the Scottish Tartans Authority ( STA ) and the Scottish Tartans World Register ( STWR ).

* Scottish Variable Rate, sometimes referred to as the Tartan tax