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Alan Cumming Named as Grand Marshal for NYC Tartan Day Parade Pipe Bands and Clans to March on April 4, 2009 Alan Cumming will serve as Grand Marshal for the 11th Annual NY Tartan Day Parade. The award-winning stage and film star will lead off the Parade, joining pipers and drummers, clans and societies and all-around Scottish enthusiasts up Sixth Avenue on Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 2 PM. The parade marches north on Sixth Avenue, from West 46th to West 58th Streets.
Commenting on his selection as the 2009 Grand Marshal, Cumming said, "I am so excited to be leading the parade celebrating my homeland of Scotland in my hometown of New York City. It's going to be a rerr terr (Scots for ‘great time’)." Cumming trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. In 1998 he made his Broadway debut in Cabaret and won the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics' Circle, Theatre World, NY Press, FANY and New York Public Advocate's awards. He has since appeared on Broadway in Design for Living and The Threepenny Opera. He returned to the British Stage in 2006 to play Max in Martin Sherman's Bent and for the National Theatre of Scotland he played Dionysus in The Bacchae, which was seen last summer in NYC as part of the Lincoln Center Festival. He made his feature film debut in 1992 in Ian Sellar's Prague. US audiences were introduced to him in Circle of Friends, and he went on to appear in many films including Emma, Goldeneye, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Spice World, X2: X Men United, the popular Spy Kids trilogy, and Eyes Wide Shut. He has made many TV appearances in the UK and the US, including most recently the mini-series Tin Man, and also acts as host of the Masterpiece Mystery series for PBS. Previous Grand Marshals have included, Sir Sean Connery, Cliff Robertson and “Braveheart” screenwriter Randall Wallace. In 2008, Scottish-born Lawrence Tynes, field goal kicker for the Super-Bowl winning New York Giants, served as Grand Marshal. Tynes was joined by Scottish government representatives, including First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond, Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament Alex Fergusson and the former Lord Provost (Mayor) of Edinburgh, Eric Milligan. April 6 was established as Tartan Day by the Congress of the United States to commemorate the signing of the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320, which is believed by some historians to have been an influence on the American Declaration of Independence. Since 2002, the Clan Currie Society has celebrated Tartan Day with exhibitions and heritage programs at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. 2009 will mark the eighth year that the Clan Currie Society has marched in the NY Tartan Day parade. Clansfolk and friends from near and far are invited to march with the Society. For more information, please visit: www.tartanweek.com. Click here for a photo gallery of past parades
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