I love bagpipe music
 

Ok, I'm not ashamed to say that I love bagpipe music.

From the most popular..
Amazing Grace


to the more obscure
The Rowan Tree


Highland Cathedral is a bit more modern

TNXS

[scottish resident]Ahem. Rowan Tree is not obscure ...
Rich - when are you going to come visiting?[/scottish resident]

I'll go to Scotland after I pass through Italy, France and Ireland.

limey, do you know about North Sea Gas? (Not bagpipes, but Scottish)

I've got a couple of their early cds. I like them quite a bit.

If you're ever in North Texas, try to make the North Texas Irish Festival (March 5th-7th, Fair Park, Dallas) or the Texas Scottish Festival & Highland Games (June 4th-6th, Maverick Stadium, Arlington). I'll be the guy wearing the donegal beard and the utilikilt.

Here's some bagpipes: http://cellar.org/showpost.php?p=428285&postcount=27

That's fab, Flint! I took part in a bagpipe, didgeridoo, penny whistle and concertina thang but it wasn't as funky as that!

Then you get stuff like this that I discovered while in Scotland last year.

I can play the bagpipes. My neighbors once banded together to insist that I STOP playing. I was drunk and played Auld Lang Syne at midnight one New Year's Eve. Loudly!

The bagpipes cannot be played softlly, so that was unnecessary to point out.

Amazing Grace on the bagpipes brings me to tears. Too many cop and firefighter funerals.

I had a bagpipe related trauma as a teenager. It has taken me many years to be able to withstand the sound of pipes without flashbacks.

My high school marching band marched in a parade in Niagara Falls, crossing from the American to the Canadian Side.

This isn't where the trauma occured. That night we went to Toronto, and stayed in a lovely hotel. Unfortunately my band was housed on the same floor as the Ontario Police Pipe and Drum.

Drunken Ontario Policemen playing bagpipes at 3am.

That experience wounds a person deeply.

I still jolt awake sometimes, thinking I'm hearing Scotland the Brave.