78th Highlanders of Canada

Estes Park Scottish Festival September 2004

Category:

Music

Tags:

• afvn
• pipes
• bagpipes
• drums
• colorado
• co

[torstvillinger]

Sir(s): Thank you. Merci beaucoups. --J. D., SATX 78202 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (=U. S. A.)

[rmorecook]

@torstvillinger Thanks but you dont need to say thanks in French. I posted it and I'm from Sugar Land TX :-) :-) Bob M

[LWayne38]

England forever, Scotland a wee bit longer

[rmorecook]

@Astrotastic12 Long Live Halifax

[johnbarbershopper]

Leave it to Nova Scotians to show how pipes and drums should sound ;D

[carlomaggico]

I love this video ! and music !! hallo from Italy !

[calito44]

@waterloo3 Is interesting to me to see how the detail of the drums change the entire environment of the music. With the ones used in modern days, the bagpipes makes you say "Hey what a great music!!!" with the ones I heard in this video you feel compelled to action and die for Scotland, even if is not your country of origin :).

[retluop32]

Here is their history -- it may surprise you.

Old Jack (37 years service in the Canadian Forces)

[MrFrawww]

That bass drummer was amazing!

[Rick34ize]

that how us highlander do it

[tzmukan6Orock]

I salute you! Amazing!

[Alaskaofto]

hows it goin, eh

gotta love the pride of canada :)

thanks for sharing

[jonsharp20]

great music although they r canadians there scottish blood still runs in their veins its there motherland and halifax is a town in england im english but glad canada is a part of us and we a part of them

[waterloo3]

What's fascinating about the re-created 78th Highlanders from Halifax is that they portray 19th Century Scottish regimental piping and drumming. Note the deep sound of the rope tension drums. This is a sound no longer heard in pipe bands today and has a distinctly martial quality to it. Unlike the jazzy sounding Primier drums which are so popular today. This band is a fascinating living museum piece of regimental pipes & drums. Well worth seeing for this alone as well as their excellence.