Posted on 08/11/2019 11:49:54 AM PDT by ConorMacNessa
A youth pipe band from Winnipeg will be taking their bagpipes, drums and kilts and their talent to Scotland to compete against some of the world's best next weekend. Dozens of members of the Lord Selkirk Robert Fraser Memorial Pipe Band spent Thursday evening blowing pipes and pounding their drums at Assiniboine Park as the sun set behind the trees, in preparation for the World Pipe Band Championships, to be held Aug. 16 and 17 in Glasgow. Every year, more than 200 teams involving 8,000 bagpipers and drummers from around the world gather in Scotland for the competitions.
"It's cool to meet other pipe bands from other places," said Logan Blain, 11, one of the youngest members of the Winnipeg pipe band.
Logan, who has been a drummer for four years, said he's excited to head to Scotland.
"[It's] a big championship with a whole bunch of bands, so I think it's going to be a really fun experience."
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Good for those Canadians! I hope they make a splash in Scotland!
It’s a long way to the top...
Heuch aye!
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Thanks for the ping!
Love me some bagpipes.
That said, if you see lazy Barr over there, tell him to get his sluggard butt back here...many days have passed since PDJT unclassified the docs.
OT, but I see the pipers are from the Lord Selkirk / Robert Fraser Memorial Pipe Band. Just north of us here in North Idaho, is a spectacular 300 mile plus drive named the " The International Selkirk Loop." It traverses Idaho, Washington and southeast British Columbia. The drive goes through the Selkirk Mountains and I've often wondered who Selkirk was. Turns out the mountains were named after Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, a Scottish peer who was noteworthy as a Scottish philanthropist who sponsored immigrant settlements in Canada at the Red River Colony.
It's interesting that the mountains this far west of Lord Selkirk's land grant on the Assinboine River in Manitoba were named after him.
Mr. Fraser sounds like a wonderful chap, too. He died at age 90 seven years ago.
So you triggered my history lesson for the day! Thanks.
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Thanks for the ping. I love the pipes. Have a relative that in Vermont that plays in competitions.
My favorite bagpiper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g50Un5QD2u0
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ping!
Thanks for sharing this interesting information!
4 1/2 minutes of "What the dickens?!"
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