Tucson Highlanders to perform at Faith Sept. 25

Sierra Vista Herald

[SandRat]

The Tucson Highlanders Pipes and Drums, dedicated to the music of the great Highland bagpipes, will be performing before and during worship at Faith Presbyterian Church, located at 2053 East Choctaw Drive in Sierra Vista, on Sunday, Sept. 25. Join Faith after worship for a time of fellowship with scones and jam.

Worship begins at 10:30 a.m. featuring the following music: Highland Cathedral, Amazing Grace, and Scotland the Brave.

The Highlanders are proud to wear the Cameron of Erracht tartan. This is both an ancient clan tartan and is also truly a pipe band tartan, used by distinguished Highland regiments in Scotland and in Canada today. It originates with Ewen Cameron, who became the first Cameron of Erracht in the early 16th century.

More recently, this tartan was seen in combat during WWII, when it was worn by the last of the battalions permitted to wear the kilt in battle. The battalion had received orders to switch to trousers and they chose to purposefully delay those orders – since none of the soldiers wished to give up the kilt. After successfully repelling a surprise German attack wearing this tartan, they earned the nickname of Die Damen aus der holle… the ‘ladies from Hell.’

Tucson Highlanders is an incorporated pipe band organization founded in February 2013 by more than 25 pipers and drummers. The group is also a member band of the Western U.S. Pipe Band Association (WUSPBA).

[SandRat]

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[PAR35]

WARNING: Faith Presbyterian is part of the apostate Presbyterian Church USA. Woman ‘pastor’ trained at the ultra liberal San Francisco Theological Seminary. One or two male deacons out of 9. A majority of the ‘elders’ are women.

Listen to the sermon at your own risk.

[TXnMA]

My family is Clan Macpherson, and when we were in MA, we attended several Highland Games each Summer.

One time, when there was a longer-than usual gap between Games, our oldest granddaughter (then almost four years old) came up to me and asked,

"Granddad, when are we going to go hear the 'happy music' again?"

Leave it to kids to capture the essence of Highland music!