Well, amazingly another year has passed…it seems only yesterday that we stumbled drunkenly across the Tiergarten in Berlin at 2am on Hogmanay, relying on some of our very good Berliner friends to navigate us safely home (thank you Gundi and Beatrix!)…and now another Caledon Hogmanay is looming large on the horizon at Greenock’s impressive Town Hall…we’d love to see you there.

This year has seen another handful of Caledon “1sts”:
Our first concert in England was on a cold Monday night in Clacton at the beginning of January. “Who would be there?!” we thought. I mean come on…if we could only muster a couple of hundred in Dunoon in July what hope for Clacton in January? We were stunned by a 1000-strong sell-out by a clearly very healthy society (with impeccable musical taste!) and on the strength of that evening we were taken on by All-Electric Productions with the intent of building a tour for us in England and Wales…a concert in Caernarfon this August, attended by the great Bryn Terfel, also marked our Welsh debut.

Santo Domingo in The Dominican Republic (utterly unlike Clacton in all aspects other than proximity to the sea) was next on our 1sts list. His Excellency, The British Ambassador to the Island hosted two marvellous whiskey-sponsored evenings and put us up at his official residency. Signor Ambassador Worthington, Caledon salutes you…on the condition that this becomes an annual event!

The shelves of our online shop have been swelled by scarves, ties and material from this year’s production of our first official “Caledon Tartan” of which we are immensely proud. Courtesy of our sponsors, Kilt makers Lochcarron of Scotland, we now wear a kilt (actually one each!) that lights brightly and beautifully on stage whilst remaining handsome and distinguished off it.

2008 saw us return to Berlin for the first time in the summer. How different it seemed with leaves on the trees but the heat on the Tipi stage was oppressive and for those “lucky” punters in the front row there were three little puddles of sweat at our feet to add to the ambience…nice! We are starting a brand new show in Berlin’s Tipi on March 4th 2009. This sort of performance environment is unique to Berlin and it suits Caledon down to the ground, so if you fancy taking in a show on a weekend in one of the world’s great cities, plan your trip now…we’d love to see you there too!