Olympics Opening Ceremonies

[ElleNarluin]

I, too, watched (in its entirety) and first heard Scotland the Brave as Camaroon entered, odd, and then several other times throughout the march, lilting bagpipes bellowed; however, no Scotland, and no kilts, not even from the Irish conclave.

[scotchmaster]

I'm watching the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, tonight and you can hear the sound of bagpipes in the background. I have not seen Scotland enter. I did spend an hour watching Warriors on the History Channel that had the segment on the Scottish Warriors at the Battle of Sterling Bridge.

So, if missed the Scottish athletes coming in, were any kilted?

I believe they were playing Music of Different Nations or Nationalities. I did here them Play Scotland the Brave on the Pipes on a loop with other the cultural music of other nations.

[arrogcow]

Didn't actually see them on TV, but they were live (on the radio yesterday afternoon, I heard they actually marched in just ahead of Yemen for some reason).

Anyway here is an article and a really small pic,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/s...al/7549580.stm

Adam

[Mael Coluim]

Didn't actually see them on TV, but they were live (on the radio yesterday afternoon, I heard they actually marched in just ahead of Yemen for some reason).

Anyway here is an article and a really small pic,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/s...al/7549580.stm

Adam

Thnaks, Adam for the info and link. So, the kilties were there! What an honor for them.

[auld argonian]

If the order in which the countries were marching seemed unusual, I heard on NPR that they would be marching in an order determined by the number of strokes in the Chinese character that represented the country's name. The commentator mentioned that this would be rather difficult for the folks used to the usual alphaabetical order that we are used to.

I was keeping an eye out for kilts as well but no dice.

Best

AA

[The Celtic Gypsy]

I heard the pipes and began to look for the pipers and was disappointed not to see them. However it was neat to have pipes included in the musical montage. And it was mentioned several times about the order of the countries being based on Chinese calligraphy of the name and the number of strokes needed for each name.

But even more interesting was the whole opening ceremonies - they just WOW'ed me!

[highlander_Daz]

I heard a pipe band playing "Kilworth Hills" Im not sure what country it was representing Im not watching any olympics for resons of my own.

[highlander_Daz]

Mains of Fintry Pipe Band grade 4 (presumably no grade 1 bands would have wanted it as it would have clashed with the world championships)



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...al/7549580.stm

[cessna152towser]

I must admit to a certain cynicism about the olympics because there is no Scotland team taking part. As it happened I was over in Northern Ireland on Friday due to the death of my uncle and the TV was switched on in his house to the Olympic opening ceremony. His widow called me through to see "Scotland being piped in" and yes there was a pipe band but the marchers were from some other country. I did notice some male marchers wearing unbifurcated garments, perhaps from the Caribbean or Africa, but no kilts.

[Mipi]

It was said on our TV that the pipers are from Australia.