When we were kids Andrew Carnegie was the Scotsman who had made it big in the USA. Every Scot was and is very proud of him and amazed at his great wealth as well as the benefits he bestowed both in Scotland and the USA. He was a legend to the extent that whenever we asked our mother for a new pair of shoes, or anything involving money she would reply “Who do you think I am Carnegie.” We decided to give our bar the same name as this great man. Here is a short outline of the life of the Andrew Carnegie.

Andrew Carnegie left Dunfermline, Scotland as a boy and sailed for America with his family. He worked in a cotton factory, then as a telegraph clerk, becoming a superintendent in 1859. By judicious buying he controlled a steel plant, coal fields a railroad and a line of lake steamers. He became immensely rich but enunciated his creed in 1900:

“a man who dies rich is disgraced”

Carnegie trusts, foundations and endowments poured out money totaling US$ 700 million. More than anyone has given away in history before and since.
Carnegie was a patron of the arts founding Carnegie Hall in New York originally to house the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, but later to become one of the most popular music venues in the world. Carnegie also employed Patrick Geddes, another famous Scottish Town Planner, to design and layout a large park in his native Dunfermline which he gifted to the town. He referred to the park, which included the Abbey, the Palace ruins, the glen and St Margaret’s Tower as “….the most sacred spot on earth” He did not believe in churches but he liked hymns – the number of church organs he donated in the last years of his life rose into the hundreds.
Andrew Carnegie died universally mourned at the age of eighty four. He was a man no better and no worse that any other, a man likes one or two others who had made a fortune and gave a lot of it back again. But the larger than life image of this man put paid to the heresies about Scotsmen being tight fisted with their bawbees and ensured that the name of Andrew Carnegie will be remembered with gratitude till the end of time.
The owners of Carnegie’s the spirit of rock also have strong Scottish connections and a love of the arts, music and life in general. Through our venues we have supported the development of live music by local artists.
Carnegie’s venues are not quite the size of Carnegie Hall but we hope that your time spent with us will be as memorable.

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蘇格蘭人安得魯‧卡奈基（Andrew Carnegie, 1835~1919）是早期在美國胼手砥足創業成功的蘇格蘭移民，蘇格蘭鄉民都為他帶給美國與蘇格蘭的建設及公益貢獻引以為傲。Carnegie’s即是傳承這位傳奇人物的名聲與精神所命名。

卡奈基自幼就離開出生地蘇格蘭鄧弗姆林(Dunfmline)，一同與家人隨船抵達美國。他曾在棉花廠房打零工，擔任電報辦事員，1859年由於他優越的表現，一路晉升為電信局總長。卡奈基經審慎評估後，投資當地煉鋼廠、煤礦，積極投注鐵路建設及造船廠經營；他的努力雖然使他成為富有的企業家，但是他稟持“取之於社會，用之於社會的信念”,斥資七億美金成立了信託以及基金會來回饋社會，投注金額至今仍無人能超越。

  卡奈基為紐約知名的卡奈基音樂廳(Carnegie Hall)的發起者，同時他也積極奔走為音樂廳的藝術展覽及表演籌募資金。卡奈基音樂廳原為紐約愛樂交響樂團管弦樂隊表演所籌備，但隨後成為世界數一數二舉行國際音樂會、大型演唱會的最高殿堂。卡奈基亦聘請蘇格蘭知名的城市規劃大師Patrick Geddes規劃他的故鄉鄧弗姆林一座紀念公園，公園內有倫敦西敏寺、王室遺址及St. Margaret’s Tower等知名的歷史古蹟，他形容這座公園是”世上最聖潔的淨土”。他雖然不是虔誠的教徒，但是他卻十分地熱愛讚美詩的天籟之音，在他晚年時，他捐贈了數百台的管風琴給各大教堂。

安得魯‧卡奈基逝世於84歲高齡時十分受到大家的悼念，他雖非聖人，但他將畢生努力創造的財富又一點一滴的回饋社會，廣為鄉里所傳頌，而他所代表的蘇格蘭人堅韌的性格與傳奇將會一直持續流傳下去。

Carnegie’s餐廳的創始者們皆擁有英倫背景，熱衷藝術、音樂及生活挑戰。也許Carnegie’s的規模非紐約卡奈基音樂廳(Carnegie Hall)，但是你一定能在這裡享受一個難忘的卡奈基搖滾時光與意想不到的美食體驗。