Our 2025 Clan Cultural Row Information
St. Andrew’s Society of Detroit is excited to invite your clan to participate in the oldest continuous Highland Games in North America. Our 176th Annual Highland Games will be held again at Greenmead Historical Park in Livonia, Michigan, on Saturday, August 2, 2025.
Registration fee of $70.00 will provide you with:
- two entry tickets
- a 10’ X 10’ tent in the Clan Community area
- one parking pass per 10’ x 10’ tent space
Also, there are tables and chairs for rent at an extra minimal cost.
Please note that we will be allowing clans to bring their own tents. At a price of $60.00, you will still be on the pavement and butted up to the tent beside you. You will also be responsible for securing your own tent to the ground. (Subject to availability.)
CLANS THAT REGISTER BY JUNE 15th WILL RECEIVE 2 TICKETS PER CLAN TO THE FRIDAY NIGHT CEILIDH
You will receive 2 entry tickets and 1 parking pass for every reserved Clan Tent Space. These will be given to you prior to the event.
Registration has been extended to Sunday, July 13 at 11 PM.
Blessing of the Tartans
Few countries in the world can boast a life span as rich or diverse as Scotland. The true story of the people, the battles, the nobility and its Kings and Queens, is more thrilling than any novel, and has more love stories than all the Hollywood movies. Scotland’s clans provide Scots everywhere with a point of reference for their identity, history and culture.
The term clan is now applied almost exclusively to the tribes into which the Scottish Highlanders were formerly, and still, to some extent, are divided. The term was also applied to those large and powerful septs into which the Irish people were at one time divided, as well as to the communities that inhabited the Scottish borders, each of which, like the Highland clans, had a common surname. Indeed, in an Act of the Scottish Parliament for 1587, the Highlanders and Borderers are classed together as being alike “dependents on chieftains or captains of clans.”
The border clans, however, were, at a comparatively early period, broken up and weaned from their predatory and warlike habits, whereas the system of clanship in the Highlands continued to flourish in almost full vigor down to the middle of the 18th century.
As there is so much of romance surrounding the system, especially in its later manifestations, and as it was the cause of much annoyance to England, it has become a subject of interest to antiquarians and students of mankind generally; and as it flourished so far into the historical period, curiosity can, to a great extent, be gratified as to its details and working.
Few countries in the world can boast a life span as rich or diverse as Scotland. The true story of the people, the battles, the nobility and its Kings and Queens, is more thrilling than any novel, and has more love stories than all the Hollywood movies. Scotland’s clans provide Scots everywhere with a point of reference for their identity, history and culture.
The term clan is now applied almost exclusively to the tribes into which the Scottish Highlanders were formerly, and still, to some extent, are divided. The term was also applied to those large and powerful septs into which the Irish people were at one time divided, as well as to the communities that inhabited the Scottish borders, each of which, like the Highland clans, had a common surname. Indeed, in an Act of the Scottish Parliament for 1587, the Highlanders and Borderers are classed together as being alike “dependents on chieftains or captains of clans.”
The border clans, however, were, at a comparatively early period, broken up and weaned from their predatory and warlike habits, whereas the system of clanship in the Highlands continued to flourish in almost full vigor down to the middle of the 18th century.
As there is so much of romance surrounding the system, especially in its later manifestations, and as it was the cause of much annoyance to England, it has become a subject of interest to antiquarians and students of mankind generally; and as it flourished so far into the historical period, curiosity can, to a great extent, be gratified as to its details and working.
Clan Gunn – 2024 Nesbitt Cup Winner
Our Nesbitt Cup and Past Winners
Clans that are attending in 2025: (indicates website)
Clan Boyd House of (ClanBoyd.org)
Clan Buchanan (clanbuchanan)
Clan Campbell (ccsna.org)
Daughters of Scota (Daughters of Scota)
Clan Donald (clandonald)
Clan Donnachaidh (clandonnachaidh)
Clan Douglas (Clan Douglas)
Clan Elliot (elliotclan-usa)
Clan Farquharson (clanfarquharson)
Clan Fleming (clanflemingintl)
Clan Fraser (cfsna.com)
Clan Gordon House of (houseofgordonusa)
Clan Gunn(clangunn)
Clan Hay(Clan Hay)
Irish Genealogy
Livonia Mason Lodge (Livonia Mason Lodge)
Clan Logan (Clan Logan)
Clan MacIntosh (Clan MacIntosh)
Clan MacKay (Clan MacKay)
Clan MacKinnon (TheMacKinnon.com)
Clan MacPherson (Clan Macpherson)
Clan Martin (Clan Martin)
Clan Montgomery (Clan Montgomery)
Questions about Clans?
Contact:
Clan Coordinator at clans@detroitscots.com