Banda Taverna from Brazil is one of this year’s staring performers performing in the Don Garen Festival Tent.  Since having the opportunity to interview her for an article published in the August issue of The Scottish Banner, I have become a super fan of front woman Mariana Roque. She and I both lived in Ireland around the same […]

Described by Canadiana Connection magazine as “the uniform of the Canadian Everyman” Plaid Flannel has become a cultural identifier as everyone from our most celebrated artists to our Olympic athletes comfortably don the colourful check pattern shirt as a proud testament to all that is hard working and humble in the true north strong and […]