Loch Norman Pipe & Drum at Belmont Abbey Graduation

**McClef** · 10th June 09, 01:46 AM

Great sound and the procession looks impressive too.

There is a Belmont Abbey just outside Hereford but it's not a college and even if it was probably wouldn't have a piped ceremony like this.

**Kilt_Em_All** · 10th June 09, 05:36 AM

Yes, this would be the Belmont Abbey in Belmont, NC, USA, just outside of Charlotte. I forgot about the Belmont Abbey in the UK. As you can tell from the video, it's a very small college, somewhere around 1500 students. The pipe band entrance totally caught me off guard, too. I wasn't expecting it at all, which is why I was forced to shoot them with my digital camera instead of my camcorder. I have to say, though, the video came out a lot better than I expected.

-Elliott

**Galician** · 10th June 09, 09:03 AM

I have been to the Belmont Abbey in North Carolina. I wasn't aware that there was one also in England!

I checked, and found the English community is older by some twenty-five years. They belong to different "congregations" within the Benedictine Order, though, so I can't tell if there was any connection between them.

Glad to see that the kilt is welcome there. The community is a very friendly one.