We were in Glasgow yesterday for Piping Live which is a week long festival of bagpiping held in conjunction with the World Pipe Band Championships held at the end of the week.
We attended two performances at George Square.
First up was The Rob Roy Pipe Band and Highland Dancers of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, where one of my cousins is a professor at Kingston University.
Next was Balagan, a young Grade 2 pan European band whose members from eight countries meet monthly for rehearsals in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Their young Drum Major/Mace Bearer gave an impressive display
MacMurchie Bagpipe Makers were on hand to demonstrate how bagpipes are hand crafted
There were also plenty of opportunities for impromptu kilt photos:-
All too soon the bands were finished playing
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