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2nd November 10, 04:51 AM
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 Originally Posted by JerseyLawyer
I think the answer here is simple - most people are only exposed to kilts when they're worn by pipe bands, many of which in the USA are of Irish extraction.
Yes it was astounding a couple years ago when I could get on my local television here the entire NY City St Patrick's Day Parade shown live: pipe band after pipe band, nearly all with an Irish theme:
Bands wearing saffron:


Here's the County Cork Pipe Band:

(Oops they let a Scot in their ranks!)
Seemed like there was a pipe band dedicated to just about every Irish county!
And I've seen lists of competing pipe bands at competitions back in the Northeast where nearly all the bands have an Irish name.
Here (in Southern California) the situation is very different. We didn't have a single Irish themed pipe band here until a couple years ago when the LAPD Hibernian Society pipe band was formed. The exception was James Coyne Memorial Pipe Band which wears an Irish county tartan but the uniform is Scottish in every other way: nothing green or saffron, no Irish motifs, etc.
We have the LA Scots, the Pasadena Scots, Nicholson, The Cameron Highlanders of San Diego, the House Of Scotland, and casting further afield in the US Southwest we have Prince Charles, Mesa Caledonian, Silver Thistle, MacIntosh, the names of which leave little doubt as to their country of origin.
However the oldest pipe band in the Western US is The Irish Pipers Of San Francisco.
Last edited by OC Richard; 2nd November 10 at 05:03 AM.
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