Sky - Bagpipes a Celebration

nanna8

I absolutely adore bagpipe music but sadly we don’t hear it that often here. There is a local group who play but they rarely do public performances.

No Sky for you in aussie nanna8?

Do come back and give us your verdict, although I'm sure it will be positive, Freya5🎵🎶

Fair play to the drummers also 🥁

Red Hot Chilli Pipers are terrific!

One for my too watch list. Something about bagpipes that stirs this sassenachs heart. Or perhaps from my distant ancestry. .

Don’t bus,ers need a license Aveline? I know they do in Glasgow .If they are just rubbish someone should be aware and take the permission away.
On a lighter note ,we took a Croatian friend to see what he thought was the Red Hot Chilli Peppers,he was quite disappointed to discover it was the Red Hot Chilli PIPERS in a wet west of Scotland d park.He had a ball…Bagrock is still a great memory for him 15 or more years on .These guys can do anything on bagpipes

There's bagpipe music and bagpipe music or rather pipers. Good pipers and good bands are absolutely unbeatably wonderful. However, there are some chancers out there taking advantage of tourists and giving the pipes a bad name. Several times I've been on Princes Street in Edinburgh and there have been 'pipers' just playing random notes to give a general impression of music. I suspect that it's people like that who give bagpipes a bad name. Tourists don't know any better and must think pipe music is a ghastly concatenation of sound.

I shall try to watch it again Namsnanny. To be honest I wasn’t going to watch because I thought it would be all chat and technology but DH switched it on and I was so glad. The windswept performance of the young lady called Ailis was pure magic.

I absolutely adore bagpipe music but sadly we don’t hear it that often here. There is a local group who play but they rarely do public performances.

I'm so glad you enjoyed it too Greenfinch. Everyone was so enthusiastic, and some wrote their own music.
For me, nothing could be more thrilling than watching a lone piper on the top of a peak surrounded by the glorious colours of autumn playing the forlorn sounding notes that the pipes do so well.
I'm looking forward to watching again. 🙂

Yes Thanks Mollygo. Also on Now.

Sky Arts tomorrow at 4.35pm according to my TV.

Which Sky channel was this on Namsnanny?

I second this Namsnanny.Such a beautiful programme with magnificent scenery and exceptionally talented musicians. The music was beautiful and varied ,rounded off with a superb rendition of the old favourite,Scotland the Brave.