Robert Burns
National Poet of Scotland
Robert Burns Suppers 2024
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Salt Lake City AND Provo/BYU Burns Suppers
It's been a few years, but the BYU Burns Supper is back!
BYU Burns Supper:
February 2, 2024
Wilkinson Center BYU Campus
6:30pm (gather) 7:00 (dinner and program)
Salt Lake City Burns Supper:
January 27, 2024
Sons of the Pioneers Building
3301 E Louise Ave, Millcreek, UT 84109
6:30pm (gather) 7:00 (dinner and program)
At both events we will have a traditional dinner (with haggis) and Robert Burns Supper program. Please remember we will have an open mic for participants to read Burns poems, sing Burns songs, tell Burns stories.
Once you purchase a ticket your name will be on our list at the door. The name will be under the name on your payment method.
If you need assistance please contact us.
Robert Burns is one of Scotland’s most important literary figures and is best known for his famous, and often humorous, songs and poetry. Burns was an inspiring and passionate pioneer of his generation and is regarded as Scotland’s National Bard.Burns was born to a poor family in Alloway, Ayr, on 25 January 1759 and began his working life on the family farm. Burns’ father recognised the importance of education and hired a local teacher for Burns, who went on to demonstrate signs of an exceptional writing talent from a very young age.As Burns grew older, his great passion for Scotland and his dynamic, contemporary vision played an important role in inspiring the founders of socialism and liberalism. His literary fame began when his first work Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, later known as the Kilmarnock Edition, was published in 1786 after which his writing career flourished.
Although Burns only lived to the age of 37, he enjoyed an eventful life and produced an astonishing amount of great literarey work during his career.
Burns is famous for his political views, revolutionary behaviour and his love for the lassies, all of which can be seen in his extensive catalogue of work. Burns was also inspired by the beauty of Scotland, particularly the breathtaking scenery of Ayrshire, his birthplace, and the romantic setting of his later home region of Dumfries & Galloway.
Robert Burns is famous for his brilliant poetry and songs, of which he wrote hundreds in both Scots and English during his short life. His unique and often radical style is what distinguishes him as Scotland’s National Bard and his work continues to influence Scottish literature to this day.
Burns was a keen traveler and he collected many Scottish folk songs along the way and adapted them using his own distinctive style. He is equally well-known for his thought-provoking and romantic work as he is for his more humorous poems.