Tag: ceilidh

29th November 2010

Avatar photo

by Leigh Turner

Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Vienna

St Andrew’s Night in Kyiv: a Ukrainian-Scottish ceilidh

It’s 9.30 p.m. and the Sancho Panza Restaurant is packed with Scots and Ukrainians in kilts and traditional embroidered linen shirts (actually most of the men in kilts are wearing Ukrainian shirts).  A Scottish/Ukrainian band equipped with bagpipes, a harmonica, fiddles and a tsymbaly play Ukrainian and Scottish dance tunes accompanied by roars of enthusiasm […]

Read more on St Andrew’s Night in Kyiv: a Ukrainian-Scottish ceilidh | Reply