Argyllshire Gathering: Parade from Oban to Mossfield Park

[creagdhubh]

Thanks for the video, Kyle. I enjoyed that! I spotted my piping instructor's son, wearing our band tartan kilt.

No worries. Oh, that is splendid! I'm pleased that you were able to spot a familiar face in the crowd - how cool is that?!

Cheers,

[MacSpadger]

Great video, I know at least half the pipers, as well as Angus Nicol of the HSL. Nice to see my old piping tutor Dugald MacNeill there too.

[creagdhubh]

Great video, I know at least half the pipers, as well as Angus Nicol of the HSL. Nice to see my old piping tutor Dugald MacNeill there too.

Wonderful! My good mate, Matt Pantaleoni pipes in this parade every summer.

[creagdhubh]

Here's another good one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvufdkaZv9g

Cheers,

[Jock Scot]

Here's another good one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvufdkaZv9g

Cheers,

I know the leading band was an amalgamation of pipers, but I do think lady pipers do look so much nicer in tartan skirts, no sporran, and no kilt hose. Of course in a more regimented band there does seem to be the requirement of sporran, male style kilt, kilt hose, band bonnet, etc for the lady band members, which in my view is a shame.

[creagdhubh]

I know the leading band was an amalgamation of pipers, but I do think lady pipers do look so much nicer in tartan skirts, no sporran, and no kilt hose. Of course in a more regimented band there does seem to be the requirement of sporran, male style kilt, kilt hose, band bonnet, etc for the lady band members, which in my view is a shame.

I have always felt the same Jock, excellent analysis.

Slainte,

[Peter Crowe]

I know the leading band was an amalgamation of pipers, but I do think lady pipers do look so much nicer in tartan skirts, no sporran, and no kilt hose. Of course in a more regimented band there does seem to be the requirement of sporran, male style kilt, kilt hose, band bonnet, etc for the lady band members, which in my view is a shame.

The first thing I too noticed on the video were the lady pipers in tartan skirts. I am forty-five past and was brought up by my parents (especially my late mother) with the same point of view as you Jock, and I am definitely not a male chauvinist or misogynist. However, it would seem the accepted norm of female Pipe Band members wearing male kilt attire is well and truly established both here and back home at least since the mid-1980's from what I remember.

[Father Bill]

Yes. Perhaps I'm a sexist son-of-a-gun, but I always like it when a woman looks like a woman.

"There are two things that will never go out of style: a manly man and a womanly woman." - Mae West

[RockyR]

I spotted Alastair Dunn leading the parade (first piper on the left) and the most ELUSIVE of Highland creatures at 1:16 in the video. A man in a kilt wearing a Flat Cap in Scotland!

[creagdhubh]

I spotted Alastair Dunn leading the parade (first piper on the left) and the most ELUSIVE of Highland creatures at 1:16 in the video. A man in a kilt wearing a Flat Cap in Scotland!

Hahahaha! Quite right, Rocky! Well done old boy!

Cheers,