Royal Marines/Scots Guards to perform in LONDON ON

**plaid preacher** · 28th January 16, 05:18 PM

This is for all my Southwestern Ontario brethren. I was speaking with the friend with whom I will be attending the concert on Sunday in Toronto and he mentioned that the same concert has added a date at the Budweiser Gardens in London on Tuesday February 2nd ... and I would note it is A LOT more affordable than the Toronto show. Hope maybe some of you in the London area can make it!

**Father Bill** · 28th January 16, 05:25 PM

Aye indeed!

I'm Padre to the London Chapter of the Royal Marine Association of Canada, and we've got a block of tickets together, so I'll be there! Pics if we're allowed.

Bill+

**OC Richard** · 28th January 16, 06:16 PM

I'll be seeing the show, down here in Cerritos, on Feb 20.

Kilts of course!

Pics to come!

**kilted firefighter** · 31st January 16, 07:09 AM

My son and I kilted up and caught the show in East Lansing last night. Great show. Saw maybe 6 men kilted. Lots of conversations about our kilts. One gentleman asked where we off to next, I said home because my son is to young to take to a pub after the show, then I realized he thought we were with the band and he was asking about the next tour stop. We looked absolutely nothing like the pipers but I guess to many a kilt is a kilt.

**Father Bill** · 31st January 16, 07:26 AM

It does happen. I notice the same on Remembrance day, and that's with my collar on to make one more small difference.

Maybe I'll try it this week.

**McMurdo** · 31st January 16, 08:48 PM

Saw it tonight in Toronto, great show.

**OC Richard** · 1st February 16, 05:20 AM

I've been attending these tours- I think I've not missed one- since 1976, and for me one of the highlights is when the Pipes & Drums plays their competition set or other set of non-military tunes.

Thing is, all pipers are raised with the tunes in the Scots Guards and Queens Own Highlanders books, and we've all heard and played the standards a thousand times.

But nearly always at these shows there's a point where the Pipes & Drums play the medley they play at civilian competitions, or perhaps a set put together purely for entertainment. These often include new compositions by the Pipe Major and/or by pipers in the band. I've heard the nicest tunes then, tunes I'd not heard before and will never hear again. These medleys are never put on the tour album, only the standard chestnuts go on there, meaning that all tour albums are nearly identical as regards the pipe tunes.

So that's what I'm looking forward to, in part.

**McMurdo** · 1st February 16, 06:53 AM

A couple of photos from last night, Robert and I and a couple of the Highland Dancers of the Scots Guards, who we were talking to before the show. Sharp eye on one of the dancers as he asked me about my tie, I was wearing the Army Benevolent Fund tie BTW. We did see other gents wearing the kilt and I did bump into another member of my church at the interval. If you get the chance go see this show.