Band of the Scots Guards and The Black Watch 3rd BN - 2013 USA Tour Schedule

[Freelancer]

I've been fortunate to attend these concerts whenever they've taken place since the 1998 tour, and I was fortunate to do the same this year. I saw the performance this past Saturday which was held at the Tillis Center on the campus of Long Island University. It was a wonderful and rousing performance (as per usual)! The theme of the show was "British Isles of Wonder". It featured segments with music devoted to Ireland, England and Wales as well as Dance sets and the competition set of the The Black Watch pipes and drums. The Armed Forces Tribute was particularly poignant. All very well done!

[OC Richard]

I got my tickets! February 27 at the Cerritos Center For The Performing Arts.

I've tried not to miss any of these tours, since the first one I attended in 1976, and I always get the programmes.

I have:
BW & Royal Marines 1976
Scots Guards & Grenadier Guards 1977
BW (pipe band and brass band) 1979
RSDG & Coldstream Guards 1981
Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders & Royal Marines 1985
Gordon Highlanders & Grenadier Guards 1987
RSDG 1988
BW (pipe band) & Argylls (brass band) 1989
Queens Own Highlanders & Coldstream Guards 1991
Argylls & Princess of Wales & Royal Anglian 1993
BW, Life Guards, Blues & Royals 1995
RSDG (no date on programme, 2002?)
BW & Welsh Guards 2006
RSDG & Coldstream Guards 2008
5th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland (Argylls) & Irish Guards 2009
? (I know I just went to one a couple years ago, can't find the programme)

The 2002 (?) RSDG was odd in that the pipe band was in civilian Highland Games dress and did no marching; in fact their drums were on stands the entire time.

Also, I've picked up a couple programmes from earlier tours I didn't see:

Queens Own Cameron Highlanders & Coldstream Guards 1960
Royal Scots Greys & Argylls 1962
BW 1963 (this is the famous tour during which they performed for Kennedy shortly before his assassination, and broke off the tour to play at his funeral)

About Highland Dress matters, I presume that the Pipes & Drums of the 3rd Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland will be wearing their old pre-RRS Black Watch kit, save for wearing RRS cap badges. I believe that members of the Pipes & Drums of the various battalions are the only RRS members not wearing the new generic RRS uniform.

Same thing happened in the aftermath of the 1881 amalgamations, when the Pipes & Drums continued wearing their old kit for a time, and one of the new regiments, The Seaforth Highlanders, never did get the pipers of both battalions in one uniform kit.

As for myself, I'll wear the Prince Charlie I picked up cheap on Ebay a while back but haven't worn yet. (It's a nice semi-vintage one.) With goathair sporran, castellated hose, buckled brogues, etc.

[Spartan Tartan]

Band of the Scots Guards, Armstrong Auditorium, Edmond, OK, February 17, 2013, 7:30 PM

Thanks! Looks like I'll be seeing them on Feb 17!