Black Watch Pipes & Drums coming to SoCal

**Murray** · 4th December 12, 09:54 AM

http://www.cerritoscenter.com/ticket...nSeasonId=4214

**BEEDEE** · 4th December 12, 04:27 PM

Here's a link to their USA tour in 2013: http://www.theblackwatch.co.uk/index...nu.no/sec/home

Brian

**TheOfficialBren** · 4th December 12, 05:23 PM

$45 for the cheap seats!? Yikes!?!?

**California Highlander** · 4th December 12, 09:36 PM

In San Rafael, CA on Saturday, March 2, 2013 you can get cheap seats for $20, regular for $25, 40, and 50. http://www.marincounty.org/depts/cu/calendar#/?i=5

**MacGumerait** · 4th December 12, 10:44 PM

Good show , I seen them two different times in Indianapolis on thier past USA tours , the Royal Marines Band was also with them both times .

**OC Richard** · 5th December 12, 07:52 AM

I've been attending these tours since 1976.

Usually they're the same format, a pipes & drums and a regimental band (usually the Royal Marines or a Guards band) in full dress marching around.

But a few years ago there was a quite different sort of concert, the pipes & drums of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, at that same Cerritos hall.

No brass band, just the pipes & drums, and they weren't in full dress but in the civilian kit they wear to compete at Highland Games. (On the link above note that the pipes & drums of The Black Watch are likewise in civilian kit.)

And no marching! The drums were on stands, and it was a "concert" proper, just playing music.

They had an MC or "front man" with them, and a woman who sang Scottish songs.

EDIT: I now have the programme in front of me. I can't find a date anywhere. The "front man" was Billy Raymond, the singer Celine Toner. Strangely, though I saw this show here in California, the programme speaks of it as an Australian tour.