Galician Bagpipes in Santiago de Compostela Spain

[kaelig13]

Asturians come from the same roots too. The celtic countries are differents buf has very similar cultures.

[pacificprospector]

These two are great! Good sound and fingering. I hope we could hear more Galician pipers at the Celt festivals in Canada and U.S..

Cheers from a piper from the West Coast of Canada!

[pompaciraif]

great!!!

cheers from Turkey

[Marcelohenrique74]

My heritage...my heart smiles.

[Rac665]

Arguing about who is and who isn't Celt on a youtube video. Like the other video where people argued over Kurdish-Persian racism....

t wouldnt be possible without

ENGLISH!!!

Thank you GLOBALISM!!!!!

[Airgunomics]

I like this type of music. I started liking it when I saw buggs bunny playing a bagpipe when I was a kid.

[tlanextil]

en mi viaje por galicia los pude ver a estos artistas de la calle en esa cocaion interpretaron la cancion de albinoni

[mambro21st]

Celts Rule!

[MijailStrogoff]

Susana Seivane

[apologeticsman]

la senorita esta muy bonita... I think that's how you say she's cute...??

[JonnyLightning]

I'd also like to point out that the Celtic Congress rejects Galicia's membership on account of the fact that they have not been a Celtic nation for well over a millenia.

[chiconva]

@JonnyLightning and also the Bagpipes are a peseant insturment all peoples of Europe of the lower class enjoyed playing the pipes from Norway to Algeria from Ireland to Saudi Arabia it's originally a pesant insturment

[GuzzistaJoe]

JonnyLightning you're talking out of your arse.

[JonnyLightning]

@GuzzistaJoe

How so? Do you speak Galician Celtic?

[F4Wildcat]

i always wanted to play a bagpipe

[JonnyLightning]

It'd be better if the Galicians were actually Celtic but... they're not at all. They're a bunch of vulgar Romans with a couple of Celtic traditions they copied from the original inhabitants.

[chiconva]

@JonnyLightning in Language yes but a study was done on people through out the brittish Isles to see if they are racially closer to Vikings but no they are actually closer to Basques and Galicians only Vulger Roman in language not blood!

[JonnyLightning]

@chiconva

I consider DNA studies shady because of their relatively new introduction. I mean, honestly, how exactly are the peoples of the British Isles all so closely related when a) The Celts and the Anglo-Saxon-Jutes are completley different and unrelated peoples and b) the Neolithic settlers were totally outnumbered by the aforementioned Celts and Germans? I've seen that study and it doesn't add up because somehow it doesn't take into account the past 8,000 years or so.

[chiconva]

@JonnyLightning Galicia means land of the Gael I don't think you've ever met someone of Galician or Basque ancestory Compare it to the People of the British isles all the above peoples mentioned have large Cranium structors Irish and Basque more so and I've seen many Galicians that look very Celtic indeed so and also you should look at Celtic Mythology or Celtic legend of Ireland where did where did Mil come from ? Spain! There is a connection with the Gaels and Galicians!

[JonnyLightning]

@chiconva

No, because the Galician Celts are dead, and have been dead for a very, very long time.

[chiconva]

@JonnyLightning and also only difference is the Irish are Germanized and the Galicians are Romanized but then again the Spanish also have German too what about the Visagoths?

[JonnyLightning]

@chiconva

The Irish are still Irish - there exists in Ireland still today a Celtic language. Also, just as the Visigoths did not outnumber the Latins in Spain, nor did the English ever outnumber or overwhelm the Irish in Ireland. The Galician Celts, however, were completely overtaken by the Latins.

[chiconva]

@JonnyLightning believe you me English is the Official language of Erin

it has been that way only what separated the Irish or made them so different was their religion Irish people are a bunch of germanized celts just as the Galicians are latinized celts oh yeah and you also got Galicia in Poland too and the latins in spain were overtaken by the moors too they don't speak arabic it's there But I would also like to point out that there is a very strong connection with Ireland and the Iberians!

[JonnyLightning]

@chiconva

Galizien (Polish Galicia) has nothing to do with the Celts or with Iberian Galicia, why did you even bring that up?

There is no strong connection between the Latins in Iberia and Ireland.

I couldn't make sense of the rest of your post.

[chiconva]

@JonnyLightning Why I bought it up because everything having to do with Gael Galicia Ireland is open for discussion! So you say that Spain is Latin, not all of it! then whats are the Basques neighboring Galicia? You know they have said that Basque or Euskara has no connection to any indoeuropean people. That is the popular belief but once again Gaelic has been compared to Euskara even in the syntax. As for the Galicians have no connection language wise but blood wise they do!

[JonnyLightning]

@chiconva

That's bollocks. The Galicians are not Celts, they do not speak a Celtic language or even a heavily Celtic-influenced Spanish. End of fucking story.

No, Galizien is populated with Poles, and has nothing to do with Galicia in Spain. Hence, it has no bearing on this discussion.

I do not consider the Euskal Herria apart of Spain, hence, all of Spain is populated with Latins.

[raonipaes]

@JonnyLightning

Same thing it would be if I said the Angolan people are not Ovimbundos just because they do not speak any native african language.

Ethnicity is not only about language.

Oh, so the whole country of France is also populated with latins just because they speak a latin-based idiom? What about England? 28% latins because their idiom is about 28% latin based?

You're mixing up ethnic aspects with language.

Language is one of the aspects of ethnicity but not a determining one.

[JonnyLightning]

@raonipaes

It's a rather large determining one, actually.

What about Galicia makes it Celtic? Are there still Celtic placenames? Do the people have look Celtic or have Celtic names? Do they still speak a Celtic language?

The answer to all of those is no. Hence, Galicia is not a Celtic country and this is the chief reason as to why the actual Celtic nations left EXCLUDE Galicia from the Celtic Congress.

[raonipaes]

@JonnyLightning

You are once again making clueless statements....actually People have celtic surnames and many, I said MANY places have celtic names still standing in present day, those being the ultimate proof of a celtic background in that region.

Greek and Roman intellectuals such as Strabo and Pliny wrote about the celtic tribes of Galicia and Portugal, and they all left ruins of their settlements, knwon as castros, pretty much the same architecture and lifestyle as the Irish celts.

[JonnyLightning]

@raonipaes

You ignore the fact that those people were wiped out by the Romans, either by the direct invasion of Iberia or through later intermarriage and assimilation of the remaining population.

Also, give examples. What are these places with Celtic names, and cite some familial names that are Celtic in origin.

[raonipaes]

@JonnyLightning

I ignore nothing, I know of intermarriage and roman invasion, but still you cannot wipe out a whole ethnicity through that. That's why galician and dark haired irish people are so similar. (red haired irish people have viking genes not celtic).

If you look up on google for Gallaeci it will be easier, but among many, I can point out the city of Lugo which comes from the keltic Deity Lugh...and many surnames and places like Albion, Lusones, Braga, Navia, Cimeros, and so on...

[JonnyLightning]

@raonipaes

Lugo was called "Lucus Augusti" by the Romans, it is a corruption of that, not the old Celtic name, considering it was Latin and not Iberian Celtic that was spoken there after 137 BC.

Braga was "Bracara Augusta", and again, was corrupted over the years.

Also, you can actually wipe out a whole ethnicity like that, especially when the conquerors are apart of a vast empire and they conquer an ethnicity numbering around 60-100,000 people.

[raonipaes]

@JonnyLightning

Dude, please go get an Iberian history book, for the sake of BREOGAN....

Bracara Augusta was named that way because the CELTS living in that region were called "Bracari"......and Lugo was named after the Lugh cult followers (Lucenses), a celtic rite commonly found in Ireland also.

Both Lucus and Bracara were romanizations of the celtic names and have been graphed that way to show roman dominance, as they did everywhere else they've invaded in Europe.

[JonnyLightning]

@raonipaes

And like I said, those Celts were wiped out.

For example, Milan, Noyon, Laon, Lyon, Braganca, Genoa. All of these derive from Romanizations of Celtic place-names like a few places in Galicia. And like Galicia, the Celts were wiped out or overtaken by the Latins when the Roman Republic/Empire took over these areas. Hence, these areas are full of Latins, not Celts.

Unless you want to prove to me with your Galego-biased literature that these are also Celtic areas?

[raonipaes]

@JonnyLightning

a "Latin" is a generic description of any people which speaks latin based language, thus you may call the French "latins", or even the romanians. But that as I said before is linguistic aspect, the northwestern celts which have been killed by the romans left descendants, and you will find them in Asturias and Galicia with a phenotype which is similar to the irish people of celtic descent.

[raonipaes]

@JonnyLightning

I call places like Lugo "celtic", because the food, the music, the remains and genetics are there. Mostly what changed is the language and architecture, but the city still holds its roots. If you read what Strabo said about the galicians, and then go to the countryside of Galicia, you will find farmers and cattle breeders living the same way as their ancestors back 2 thousand years ago.

[raonipaes]

@JonnyLightning

Biased literature?

What the hell are you talking about?, Bryan Sykes is British and the Lebor Gebala Eren was written by irish monks througout the centuries!

Fact is, there are cultural, geographical, historical and genetic evidence of celts in Galicia up to present day, so you can't deny that language is what it is lacking to be recognized as a celtic nations, although many historians already consider it as being one. That being said, the galicians are moder day celts.

[JonnyLightning]

@raonipaes

They are not, because Galician Celtic is dead. END OF STORY.

Music? Not Celtic. And before you go on about bagpipes let me point out that bagpipes originate from the medieval era and are not tied to just Celtic nations, but are a pan-European development.

Cuisine? Nothing about it is uniquely Celtic.

Don't even get me started on bullshit like genetics.

[raonipaes]

@JonnyLightning

I didn't say bagpipes, I said MUSIC...

lol...if it was not celtic it's musicians wouldn't be invited to Lorient and Interceltique. By the way, don't be a uncultured hypocrite, the Egyptians used bagpipes as well as the Sumerian so it is not a medieval instrument.

No cuisine in present day is uniquely celtic, but you will find heavy influence in modern day Galicia.

I'm sorry if scientific research can't convince you about the genetics, sorry for your ignorance.

[JonnyLightning]

@raonipaes

The only credible attestments of the bagpipe date from medieval Europe. There is some speculation that it was invented earlier, but nothing definite.

Also, I exclude genetics because the evidence provided by genetics seems rather flimsy to me. How exactly does 10,000 years of migrations and assimilation and destruction not affect the genetic record of our Neolithic ancestors' migrations across the continent?

[raonipaes]

@JonnyLightning

Serioulsy, if you want to continue this discussion, you have to read some books at least, because every argument you are using can be debunked with history and facts.

I recommend you "Lebor Gabála Érenn" (the book of invasions), "Os oestrimnios, os saefes e a ofiolatría en Galiza", "As cruces de pedra na Galiza ", "Guia Espiritual de una tierra". and "Saxons, Vikings and Celts - The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland" (the most important from Bryan Sykes).

[009jorge1]

@JonnyLightning I speak what is called Gallaic, the villages that are left in Galicia do have Celtic names. Most of the people in Galicia do look Celtic (by the way Red hair isn't Celtic, its nordic) we are tall and very broad people.

What most Galicians would call "hillbilly's" do speak Gallaic there are not many of us though, as its dead. My name is Celtic, it's Árón Laxara. What makes us Celtic? Our culture, people and history.

I'd stand infront of the Celtic Congress if I had the money.

[JonnyLightning]

@009jorge1

Aron Laxara? Sounds more Basque to me. Also, no one can speak Gallaic, it's a long-dead language. If you're referring to Galician, that's an Italic language related to Portuguese. There hasn't been a Celtic language spoken in Galicia for nearly a thousand years. Hence, your exclusion from the Celtic Congress.

[009jorge1]

@JonnyLightning Árón is Gallaic. I speak both Galician and Gallaic, Galician is the language everyone in the towns and cities speak.

As I said before there are atleast 3 or 4 farming families here that speak Gallaic, it is a dead language that does not mean that some people don't speak it. When a language is dead it means that there are no native speakers, we have fluent speakers but we grew up speaking Galician and learned Gallaic from our families later on.

[009jorge1]

@JonnyLightning Also, will the Isle of Man be excluded next? Because Manx Gaelic is dying.

And the Celtic Congress has been to stupid to even investigate if there are still speakers of Gallaic in Galicia, which there are but the numbers of fluent speakers are 30-60 people.

And NO I'm not speaking of Galician, Gallaic and Galician are both different. Gallaic is a P-Celtic language, most people only spoke a few words of the language but thanks to a restoration movement we can learn it.

[JonnyLightning]

@009jorge1

No you idiot, a dead language is when there are no speakers left. It's impossible for there to be "30-60 Gallaic speakers". The Celtic language that was spoken in Galicia (a Q-Celtic language) has been dead for nearly a millenia. There is no restoration movement, there's nothing. It's dead and gone, replaced by Galician, a Romance language. I'll acknowledge that there is a fair amount of loanwords in Galician from Gallaic, but that's it.

[smagator]

@JonnyLightning romans named our coutrie''gallaetia'' that means the little gaul , because the landscape and the tribes , where very similar to the french gauls , but those tribes are named castrexos because they lived in castros circular houses of stone , and they where romanized , so latin'' with reminences of the lenguage they talk'' was their lenguage , but there was comercial reationship between galiza, ireland and bretagne before and after the coming of the romans , and a group ...

[smagator]

@JonnyLightning ...''not many people knows it'' a group of britans'' from where now is england'' came into galiza scaping from the angle-saxon invasion leaded by a bishop named mailoc and stableshed in the north of the countrie '' probably in brigantia'' so that is why some words of modern gallitian have celtic root , also some experts think that the bagpipes where introduced in galiza by the britans of mailoc

[Seleukos]

@JonnyLightning

You are right, we are swabians. Anyway you shoul visit it instead of judging something you dont know at all.

[osrevirados]

Pasodobre dos Vincios...

[raonipaes]

Que lindo!

Merecem meu mais sincero respeito!

[cornemmuse]

bonitisima

saludos desde Oregon

[iantonowful]

You are Celts hail to my brothers and sisters come and see us in Wales at the Eisteddfod we love you

[Pianist1232]

haha Wales. dude u sould black when u say "hail to my brothers and sister" lol sounds like some black dude preching haha.

[WhereEaglesDareWWII]

@iantonowful don't forget the ancient Assyrian connection. The Celtiberians were the mixture of the two , and did migrate to Eireann in huge numbers. The Black Irish...dark hair blue or green eyes.

[Isthistakenn]

@WhereEaglesDareWWII

They didn't "emigrate" the native people of Ireland were originally from the Iberian peninsula, natives. It was the later invasions/settlements of Norman, Vikings, Saxons etc which brought the lighter hair/eye features not the other way around.

[FireRupee]

@Isthistakenn The Celtic peoples of Ireland came from England. The Celtic peoples of England came from Gaul.

[kalchr]

@FireRupee and celtic peoples of gaul came from carpathian mountains and celts of carpathian mountains came from caucasus.Seriously this is the fact i am not joking.

[Jarnvarg]

@kalchr you´re wrong but no worry many academics are still doing wrong, on Carpathian mountains were another great culture wich deserves a great respect Thracians, (also Dacians) with great tribes as Odrissiæii, Getæ etc. Celtic influences were almost avery corner of Europe but as influence not as Celtic prescence, Caucasus weer an inportant place because connect Europe with those huge and older cultures on central Asia

[kalchr]

@Jarnvarg you misunderstood my comment, carpathian mountaines after 7th century BC had absolutly nothing to do with celts and there was not even one celt in the area.However ALL celts before their expansion in 7th century were located in carpathians and nowhere else.

[kalchr]

~2~

Celts linguisticly as well as racially and genetically were more related to daco-thracians and italic tribes as well as "greco-armenians" than to germans.germans on the other hand were related to slavs and balts.

[Jarnvarg]

@FireRupee Genetis studies show a different history my friend R1b Haplogroup from British Isles come from Northern Spain not from Gaul and are very older than 500Bc, almost 6000 years older

[dkrustyklown]

@FireRupee

That's what people used to think, but genetic mapping of the human genome tells a very different story. Celtic people from Northern Spain form the bulk of the genetic base of the British Isles. It's a rather amazing story that corresponds with the Galician-Celtic legend of Broegán, in which Broegán's sons spotted Ireland from atop a giant lighthouse. It's out of chronological order and the lighthouse never existed, but the connection between the two places is interesting.

[FireRupee]

@dkrustyklown Yeah, that is interesting. I'll look more into it, lol.

[virveh]

pero cuánto lo añoro...saludos de un andaluz galego

[GalizaVerde]

in Spain??? in Galiza :)

Sempre en Galiza!

[XxLIVRAxX]

@GalizaVerde Galiza is part of Spain, I google it :)

[gadiegolo]

@XxLIVRAxX If google says you must jump of a window, you do so?? A critical mind is gift for life ;)

[XxLIVRAxX]

@gadiegolo Well unfortunately sarcasm is not transmitted properly on the Internet, but the undeniable point is that Galiza/Galicia is part of Spain, right wingers and conservatives tend to do well in that region and above all, in Hispanic America, "Gallego" is synonymous with Spaniard disregarding from what region they came from. Regards from a Spaniard/Venezuelan, one of the countries with the highest proportion of Galician descendants outside Spain

[AmericanStory1]

...why didn't anyone put money in their hat??

what a bunch of cheap skates.