Massed Pipes & Drums 'Scotland the Brave': Ballater Highland Games

[appalachiablue]

2018.

[Biophilic]

1. appalachiablue you crack me up.

When you go on a tangent you certainly go. Not sure I'm as much of a fan for this particular one even though it is part of my heritage. Maybe it's my hearing aids. But I do enjoy your marches through various musical events and types. Keep on marching and I'll follow and enjoy.

[appalachiablue]

2. Thanks and hang tight friend, it's a new year coming up

and a lot of work ahead.

I love the Scots and their music (no matter what Mel Gibson and his father have done to damage the image!!). Lol.

~ No music, no life.

[tblue37]

9. I actually love bagpipes.

[appalachiablue]

10. Laurel & Hardy, Bonnie Scotland/ The Campbells Are Coming

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. That was just wonderful! Thank you for posting it.

This whole recording thrilled my Scottish blood!

[appalachiablue]

5. Good girl, they are fabulous!! Love the Scots..

I hope to get back to the British Isles and Paris again one day..

[appalachiablue]

6. St. Margaret of Scotland, what a queen! 'The Pearl of Scotland.

Saint Margaret of Scotland (Scots: Saunt Magret, c. 1045 – 16 November 1093), also known as Margaret of Wessex, was an English princess and a Scottish queen. Margaret was sometimes called "The Pearl of Scotland". Born in the Kingdom of Hungary to the expatriate English prince Edward the Exile, Margaret and her family returned to England in 1057. Following the death of king Harold II at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, her brother Edgar Ætheling was elected as King of England but never crowned. After she and her family fled north, Margaret married Malcolm III of Scotland by the end of 1070...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Margaret_of_Scotland

[BamaRefugee]

4. HAPPENS EVERY TIME.

Just saw this, and it happened AGAIN.
Never fails.
I told my girlfriend one day at the Gathering of the Clans in Stone Mountain, Georgia, as we crested a hill and came into view of the festivities, "Watch. The minute they play 'Scotland The Brave' my nipples will get hard." "You're so full of shit" she said.
2 minutes later she was staring at my polo shirt in amazement 😉

My family is from Scotland by way of Danish Vikings who one day, mid-pilfering, just decided they liked the place and why bother to sail back to Denmark. Ruthven is our family name, now called Ruffin.
We are a notorious lot, look us up on Wikipedia. My Great great uncle Edmund Ruffin actually fired the first shot on Fort Sumter to start the Civil War. He makes a good read too

[appalachiablue]

7. It's a stirring anthem, I luv it. Good Scots and Danish blood.

Many Americans have some 'Ruffin' types in the links, can't help it given how long they've been around and the large number of offspring. I know of the R. group from around the Virginia area, the old patriarch was a wacked, hard ass racist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Ruffin

[Chainfire]

8. My family history is strongly Scottish too

It is written that we were descended from a Scottish Viking. I can't remember back that far. I have to tell you, regardless of my genetics, I could never wear a kilt. I am afraid something would catch cold.

[The Blue Flower]

11. August 2008 Glasgow--the international pipe and drum competition

My daughter and I found ourselves in the midst of pipe and drum groups practicing everywhere we went. By sheer luck, we were staying at a B&B next to the University of Glasgow where they gathered for the final night and had fireworks. The week was an incredible experience.

[appalachiablue]

12. That sounds fun, lucky you in Glasgow. I lived in England

for a semester and intended to travel to Scotland but a student friend bailed so I went to Paris instead. Next time.