COVID-19 A message from the President of the Okanagan Military Tattoo Society We have all heard the saying “The show must go on!” We are doing everything we can and are working hard on making this year’s show the best one yet and will continue to do so. However, our...

We at Tattoo Central are down to the last few days of hope and will be making a public announcement this week as to whether or not we will be able to muster a Tattoo for 2020 or be forced to put it off to 2021. Stand by!

We may be the last of the cheerleaders still standing and waving Canadian flags, hoping for the best but expecting the worst. Just about every event that attracts large numbers of people has been told not to expect to be able to operate for some time. We have not...

The organizing committee of the Okanagan Military Tattoo (OMT) meets every Monday morning 0800-0930. As we are still a full three months away from our event and the Covid-19 virus has altered our social abilities, we are meeting via the on-line conference utility,...

Concerning the Covid-19 virus, there have been a few folks and a few of our performing groups asking our opinion on where we will be come the end of July and the Tattoo 2020. We are monitoring the situation daily, as most everyone is, and what we can report at the...

Duty, Honour and Izzat is the title of a book written by Steven Puriwal. It is the story of the British Indian Army in WW l and is explained in a recent CBC Podcast: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1501571651958 The podcast lasts about 18 minutes but is so important...

Naden Band of the Royal Canadian Navy at Okanagan Military Tattoo 2017 A few of the big bands we have on our performer lists and hope will be at one of our OMT events have shown strong interest and two of them are from the Victoria, BC area. The NADEN Band of the...

We are looking to put together a 200 voice choir for our 2020 Tattoo. This will take some doing but we have had a 100 voice choir in the past. We will need to place this choir somewhere near the Castle and we have our construction team in the "thinking" stage. We hope...

Michelle Reed is the music director for the A L Fortune High School in Enderby BC. After scouring the world for a drumline for our 2019 Tattoo, lo and behold we found one in a small town 30 minutes north of Vernon. Ms Reed had just guided the A L Fortune High School...

Pipes and Drums play a big part in Military Tattoo events. In the case of most big Tattoo events, such as the Royal Edinburgh Tattoo, the pipe bands form up as the massed Pipes and Drums. There are rarely individual pipe bands performing. In the case of our Okangan...