Originally Posted by
grizzbass
It is always a problem to determine where to go at scotsfest (and other festivals) this time we spent most with the entertainment.
That's the funny thing, how compartmentalised the Games are for many people.
A lot of the Pipe Band people just stay at their Band Tent the whole weekend. They bring their own food and chairs and sit around and chat and reed books and only leave the Band Tent when the band is playing somewhere. They never see the entertainment or the shops or the dancing or the vintage cars or the sheep or any of the other stuff going on.
There are dancing people who stay in the dancing area all day, clan people who hang out with the other clan people all day, and so forth.
This really struck me back in the early 80s when for a few years I was involved in a lot more stuff than piping: I was a card-carrying member of Clan Donald, did Scottish Country Dancing, played in The Scottish Fiddlers of Los Angeles, and played in a Pipe Band. At the Games I was running around hanging out with a lot of different groups of people and doing a lot of different stuff, and it struck me how the other Pipe Band people had no clue that any of that other stuff was going on.
Then one year I toured a load of Games with a Celtic Rock band and that's yet another set of people.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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