Well done to everyone at St Laurence O'Toole Pipe Band,From Everyone here in Rathcoole Co Dublin,I wish we had our Pipe Band Up and Running Again,Anyone Remember The Rathcoole Pipe Band..Good Luck Lad's
terry tully was one of my tutors when i was a member of st josephs pipeband clondalkin,he is in my opinion probably the best piper that ever stood on two legs,
First time at the Worlds - while not a good player of bagpipes - I felt it was easy to see that overall your performance stood out from the others in all sections being pipes, middle section and side drumming. You made made my trip a memorable experience. Enjoy the outcome of a lot of hard work, you all deserve this. Wayne Clarke from Australia.
I just searched for an hour to find this because I remembered listening to it several years ago! Found it! Out of everything I've heard this is by far my favorite.
Was an incredible performance and what a celebration of pipes and drums from Ireland and Scotland that day. Plus the Celtic Diaspora from around the world. Well done on your continuing high standards. I thought the results in 2011 were a bit off and while I loved Field Marshall Montgomery last year I felt SLO'T were a close second. Inveraray are very exciting but a long way to catch the Standard of the 2 top Irish Bands in my book.
I was in the grandstand for the 2010 worlds..great day, and whilst I am a big fan of SFU..SLOT deserve their glory and it is nice to see that for once SFU, Shotts or FMM didn't win it.
If you go to the full screen view you can see his facial expression, standing at the front of the group of pipes. To me it looks like his expression was one of congratulations. Giving credit to where credit is deserved.
real nice tenor & bass nice sound good tuning to them and i cant wait to the world pipe band championships this year my third year in a row going :) keep it up and im playing tenor with fivemiletown pipe band :)
Wonderful video - isn't high-def great!? Well done SLO'T! I enjoyed all the Grade 1 performances that day: a wonderful end to an exciting week of piping in Glasgow!
Ireland has produced alot of top pipe bands over the years..they are close celtic brothers of the scots and kilts are also in their culture...Field Marshall Montgomery is consistently their best though...in the last 20 years it has been Field Marshall, Shotts and Dykehead, Canada's Simon Fraser Univeristy that have won all of the championships bar two..
They do it's called the massed bands, at the finally. They play a salute to the chieftan of the day. Can be a bit intense with bands from all grades playing together....not entirely in tune with each other!!!
@HappySadFace1997100 I don't know if he did ... but the angels certainly did. If you have a look around medieval and renaissance churches you'll find lots of paintings and carvings showing angels playing bagpipes.
"the notion that the "Irish Warpipes" were a distinct instrument from the Scottish Highland bagpipe is suspect. evidence is scarce, but there are reasons to believe that the old Irish and Scottish pipes were the same instrument. For one thing, Scottish and Irish culture were not isolated, and artistic trends could be copied and shared. In 1785, John MacPherson played “Piobrachd Ereanach an Irish pibrach”, some of this “typically Scottish” piping music comes from Ireland"
Whats wrong with the break? Pointing out a time is useless unless you have someone like me asking you to state the reason WHY you put that time up. Do explain
Mike Glackin - Irish Warpipes & Scottish. Don’t you know where the Scots originated? Multi generational Irish Warpiper here you can’t take the Pipes irishness away from our family.
