Pipe Band Parade - Pitlochry Highland Games

For many the Pitlochry Highland Games starts with the parade of pipe bands down Atholl Road to the Recreation Ground - even although the local events are already well under way.

The parade is led by Robert Wiseman Vale of Atholl pipe band. Here you can see the Grade 1 band with the Grade 3 and Novice Juvenile bands all playing together and led by three Drum Majors in full traditional regalia. Vale of Atholl pipe band is one of the local bands here, and it performs regularly during the summer in Pitlochry on Monday evenings. It is followed by Perth and District Pipe Band.

All bands in the parade are judged on marching and smartness of turnout - with valuable prizes for the winners. This year's top prize was awarded to Beauly Firth & Glens. Second and third prizes went to Lomond and Clyde and Central Scotland Police respectively.

This video manages to include all the bands talking part in the 2009 parade.

Chapter markers for the individual bands are (and please help me fill in the blanks and correct any errors):

0:00 Vale of Atholl
1:03 Perth and District
1:33 Inverkeithing High School
2:01 North Lanarkshire Schools
2:17 MacKenzie Caledonian
2:49 City of Brechin
3:28 Northern Constabulary Community
3:48 Wallacestone and District
4:07 Fraserburgh RBL
4:29 Alyth and District
4:52 Stromness RBL
5:26 College of Piping Training and Development
5:36 Denny and Dunnipace
6:02 Badenoch and Strathspey
6:23 Beauly Firth & Glens
7:06 Pitlochry and Blair Atholl
7:27 Lomond and Clyde
7:59 Central Scotland Police

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Pipe
• Band
• Parade
• Pitlochry
• Highland
• Games
• 2009
• Atholl
• Road

[robwwww]

Great vid. Does anyone know the tune at 6.27- 7.04 ? Thanks.

[dronechorus]

@robwwww It's called Murdo's Wedding and was composed by Pipe Major George Stoddart, the original lone piper at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

[shuget08]

dronechorus,as a participating bandsperson I thought the vid was excellent.Thanks.

[dronechorus]

Thanks for that - but all the thanks are really due to all you guys in the bands for putting on such a great show.

[mctatties]

5.26 - College of Piping Training and Developement

[dronechorus]

Many thanks for your help with this.

[globalattraction]

Haha...chick snare drummers are hot!! xxx

[Headcracker2]

In August I was with my family in Scotland. We had a little cottage near Pitlochry. Very nice little town.

We've also seen Highland Games, but in Ballater.

[brucey62]

good video from fishers hotel,well done

[piperbob2]

@dronechorus I'm sure I heard Major Gavin Stoddart say that he composed "Murdo's Wedding" when he was 11 years old, rather than his father, George(?)

[robwwww]

@shuget08

Thanks for the info :)

[AngusOnkel]

This returns the loving memories back to a sunny nice day at the Royal Mile and on the Holyrood Green in Edinburgh in August :-)

[brucey62]

u must have been in fishers hotel to have filmed that!!!

[Fitheach1]

Four year it hae been, since I was in bonnie Pitlochry last ...

Hope tae see it agane this year ...

[piper11231]

cheers for that great vid!!

best day out i have had, as everyone can see, not a cloud in the sky, fantastic weather for the old barbeque!! :) great level of competition aswell!