Hamish Moore's thoughts on piping and dancing

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Here are a couple of clips of Sophie.
The first with mouth music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmNEM57Hso8
And at a festival in the Basque country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIjCFmrE8-Y
This is the true traditional Highland Dance as preserved in Cape Breton. What passes as Highland dancing nowadays was largely an invention of French dancing masters who came to Scotland in the early 1800s with further misrepresentation by the SOBHD. Thankfully, the original percussive step dance is making a comeback.

Alan