April 2005 Get ready for major USA festival! Ulster-Scots are being urged to get ready for the Northern Ireland Showcase at the Smithsonian Folklife festival in Washington DC in 2007. New Language competition for schools Over 500 primary schools in Counties Down and Antrim are being asked to highlight local Ulster-Scots words in a unique competition entitled "Come Ben An' Pit On Ye!" Revised grants scheme for Agency The Ulster-Scots Agency will be inviting local Ulster-Scots groups to come along to a series of roadshows so that changes to its financial assistance scheme can be fully explained. Launching the new schools Ulster-Scots Language Society competition for Counties Down and Antrim are Ballyvester Primary School P5 pupils Emily Hamilton (8), and Luke Verner (8), both from Donaghadee. The competition is sponsored by the Ulster-Scots Agency and is called 'Come Ben An Pit on Ye'.

Other Stories Ulster-Scots heritage tour forming Rachel (Donelson) Jackson - frontier woman and Presidents's wife Dance fest' at Portadown The Scots-Irish in Appalachia Ulster-Scots gets Danish attention Fiddle-sticks USA tour success IT  was a family affair for the Grahams of Markethill who are members of a 25-strong group representing the Fiddle-Stiicks Orchestra just arrived back home from a triumphant debut ten-day tour of Georgia, USA. The community orchestra was organised by Ulster-Scots group, Mid Armagh Community network. Above left are Amanda, 18, father David, Andrew, 13, and Joanne, 7.