MELBOURNE TARTAN DAY PARADE

SUNDAY 7TH JULY 2024

Support our wonderful pipe band community as they parade down Collins Street Melbourne on Sunday 7th July 2024 at 2.00pm.

Beginning at Spring Street end, approximately 300+ pipers, drummers and dancers will parade down Collins Street before turning into Regent Place (just short of Swanston Street intersection). They’ll then pause in the forecourt of The Westin Hotel for a short recital before dispersing.

Piping and Highland Dancing displays between 11.30am and 1.30pm at Old Treasury Building terrace & Pipers on Balconies. Burns’ Poetry Reading at Robbie Burns Statue in Treasury Gardens.

Don’t miss Old Scotch Pipe Band pop-up performance in The Block Arcade Melbourne at 11.30am, Ringwood Highland Pipe Band in Gordon Reserver from 11.30am and City of Melbourne Highland Pipe Band in the Bourke Street Mall (near the GPO/Myer) at 11.30am. You’ll hear us before you see us!

Photo by Adam Purcell, Melbourne Ceili Camera

We wish to acknowledge the City of Melbourne Community Events program for their support.

Melbourne Tartan Festival Pipe Band Parade

Collins Street, Melbourne - sunday 7th july at 2.00pm

Parade route - Outside the Old Treasury Building, Spring St, down Collins Street and left into Regent Place (Westin Melbourne Hotel forecourt)

this event is free

 Thank you to Pipe Bands Victoria for their support.

Thank you to the following bands who took part in the 2023 Melbourne Tartan Day Parade. City of Melbourne Highland Pipe Band Haileybury Pipes and Drums Frankston RSL Pipes and Drums Victoria Scottish Pipes and Drums Old Scotch Pipes and Drums Scotch College Pipes and Drums Watsonia RSL Pipes and Drums Rats of Tobruk Pipes and Drums Ringwood Highland Pipe Band The Scots School, Albury 5th/6th Royal Victoria Regiment Pipes and Drums

*Pipe Bands: If your band wishes to participate in the 2024 Tartan Day Parade, please contact the Secretary of Pipe Bands Victoria via email secretary@pipebandsvic.com or info@melbournetartanfestival.com

Photos by Adam Purcell, Melbourne Ceili Camera

We acknowledge the support of The Westin Melbourne for the use of Regent Place and The Westin Hotel driveway, without which the Parade would not be possible.