Piping Live in Glasgow

**cessna152towser** · 12th August 16, 08:16 AM

We were in Glasgow yesterday for Piping Live which is a week long festival of bagpiping held in conjunction with the World Pipe Band Championships held at the end of the week.
We attended two performances at George Square.
First up was The Rob Roy Pipe Band and Highland Dancers of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, where one of my cousins is a professor at Kingston University.

Next was Balagan, a young Grade 2 pan European band whose members from eight countries meet monthly for rehearsals in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Their young Drum Major/Mace Bearer gave an impressive display

MacMurchie Bagpipe Makers were on hand to demonstrate how bagpipes are hand crafted

There were also plenty of opportunities for impromptu kilt photos:-

All too soon the bands were finished playing

**grizzbass** · 12th August 16, 11:46 AM

some day I'll have to get there to see this

**OC Richard** · 18th August 16, 05:57 PM

Great pics! Thanks!

It brings back fond memories of when our band was one of those playing in George Square.

It's awesome that Blue MacMurchie was there actually turning pipes in the corner! Nothing like that when I was there.

Interesting the guy playing Spanish pipes, but wearing a kilt. It's probably the first time I've seen that. Spanish pipe bands stick to their traditional dress and traditional pipes. (Their Breton cousins switched over to playing the Scottish Highland pipes, from the traditional Breton pipes.)