The Glengarry Pipe Band, perhaps? They wear the Glengarry Highland Games's tartan.
If you click on "About the Games" and "Our Tartan" or something, you can read all about it.
They're a top-notch band. Oran Mor took the Grade "A" prize (the Classic glommed Grades 1 & 2 into "Grade A" this year so that Oran Mor, which was just upgraded by the EUSPBA, could compete.), but Glengarry came second. Like a lot of Canadian bands, they play a crackerjack, entertaining, upbeat medly.
And yes, that piping going on at the end of the bridge up on main street was the contest. There was a lot of "WTFing" going on. Bands sound better on pavement, of course, but... sheesh. Massed bands was on the street, too, though down by the field where they usually have it, probably because it was too muddy to go on the grass.
I suppose in the street is better than what they used to do, when the piping and the heavy athletics were on the same field at the same time.
"To the make of a piper go seven years of his own learning, and seven generations before. At the end of his seven years one born to it will stand at the start of knowledge, and leaning a fond ear to the drone he may have parley with old folks of old affairs." - Neil Munro
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