Burns Night Celebrations at The Reader

24 Jan 2025 - 25 Jan 2025

The Reader Mansion House

Get your tartan kilts pressed and dancing shoes ready for a double Burns Night bash on Friday 24 January and Saturday 25 January at Liverpool’s Calderstones Park.

Liverpool-based Shared Reading charity The Reader is celebrating Burns Night this month with traditional Scottish fare, whiskey tastings, poetry readings and Cèilidh with live band.

The immersive two-night knees-up in memory of one of Scotland’s renowned storytellers Robert Burns begins with an atmospheric three-course Burns Night Dinner on Friday 24 January, 7pm – 11pm, in the elegant dining room of the historic Grade II listed Mansion House in Calderstones Park, Allerton, Liverpool.This will be followed by a Burns Night Cèilidh on Saturday 25 January, 7pm – 11pm, with the return of popular Liverpool band The Saltcutters, known for their rip-roaring traditional fiddle music from across Ireland and the UK. It will also take place in the Mansion House.