TO celebrate Burns Day this weekend, Glasgow will host a "huge" ceilidh dance in honour of Scotland's national bard.
The event is part of celebrations to mark Glasgow's 850th anniversary and will be held in partnership with Celtic Connections.
Dancers will gather on Sauchiehall Street, which means "willow meadow" to reflect its past as a moorland lined with willow trees, on Saturday, January 25 and perform a Strip the Willow.
Participants will be led by Highland dancers Caragh McKinnon and Maria Monk and pipers from The National Piping Centre.
The dance will be held from 2pm to 3pm and run down the newly reopened pedestrian area of Sauchiehall Street from Rose Street to Cambridge Street.
The event will be MC’d by Scottish actor Andrew William Agnew who is best-known for his role as PC Plum in Balamory.
Bailie Annette Christie, chair of Glasgow Life said: “The life and works of Robert Burns will be remembered by Scots around the world on Saturday and Glasgow is hosting its own unique salute to the Bard.
"The strip the willow on Sauchiehall Street will be a brilliant spectacle and takes place while Celtic Connections is still in full swing. If you can make it along, join in and celebrate Robert Burns as only Glasgow can.”
Caroline Clark, the National Lottery Heritage Fund director for Scotland, said: “Sauchiehall Street has an incredible heritage of music and dancing of all kinds, so it is great to see this creative way of marking Burns night.
"We look forward to more positive changes celebrating Sauchiehall Street’s lively and diverse heritage in the years ahead.”
