Vegas Kilties?

[OC Richard]

Yes indeed there will be hundreds of kilts in Vegas over the weekend 15 16 17 April, myself included!

There will be the usual Games, at Floyd Lamb Park.

Usually the Massed Bands (pipe bands) comes over after the Games and marches down Fremont Street on Saturday night. Afterwards some of the top bands perform at various places along Freemont street and sometimes there's a "kitchenpiping" contest at one of the pubs.

This year there will also be a Tattoo at 7:30pm on Friday and Saturday, at the Thomas & Mack Center.

Bands listed were the Scots Guards, the Vancouver Police, and the Winnipeg Police.

There will be a parade at noon on Friday.

One of the coolest things about the Vegas Games, for a piper, is that some top Grade One pipe bands usually make the trip, such as Simon Fraser University (British Columbia), who came to the Vegas Games last year while reigning World Champions.

Here's myself and some fellow pipers just after the march of the Massed Bands down Fremont Street a couple years ago (that's me with the Jumbo Soda... playing the pipes makes me thirsty!