And last but not least the Grade One bands!

The LA Scots in their muted Drummond of Perth kilts:





And travelling all the way from Canada, Alberta Caledonian (AlCal)





Note the ginger-haired lad in the foreground wearing a World Pipe Band Championships 2004 cap:



Here's judge Richard Parkes, Pipe Major of the several-time World Champion pipe band Field Marshal Montgomery (Northern Ireland), and an Orthodox Priest