Battlefield Band at the 1981 Philadelphia Folk Festival

Battlefield Band in full flight.

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Music

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• Bagpipes
• Jigs
• Reels
• Battlefield
• Band

[banjostead]

Well said!!!!

[Burgkatzerl]

Hello everybody! Is this a sort of online-tree-pissing-contest about the Olympic piping games???? Weird way of relating to music. Anyway: I love this tune and it is so beautifully played - so why don´t you just all lean back for a while, relax and enjoy ; )

Yours Burgkatzerl

[4WildGuesses]

I had the great pleasure of meeting Duncan through his sister Tina (Morton Mains Farm, Edinburgh 1980). Duncan's father was once a bagpipe judge and he forbade Duncan from playing the complete pipes until he'd learned & practiced on the chanter for 7 years!

He is an amazing piper ... and really nice guy

[4WildGuesses]

I had the great pleasure of meeting Duncan through his sister Tina (Morton Mains Farm, Edinburgh 1980). Duncan's father was once a bagpipe judge and he forbade Duncan from playing the complete pipes until he'd learned & practiced on the chanter for 7 years!

He is an amazing piper.

[Albainn1]

Mike Katz is an outstanding Piper but so is Duncan MacGillivray and i love both their styles equally! However, you can't forget Duncan MacGillivray and his contribution he's made, not only to the Battlefield Band, but to Piping and Scottish music in general. He was the first Piper, and one of the few Piper and whistle players around in those days, to join the Batties and pathed the way for bagpipes in traditional music and the road it has taken today!!! So don't ever forget his pioneer movement!

[Albainn1]

I know both these Pipers very well and am very fond of both of them! Mike Katz is an outstanding Piper but so is Duncan MacGillivray! To say Mike is better than Duncan would be like saying Lynyrd Skynard is better than Paul McCartney. You just can't compare the two! Their both outstanding players of their instruments and they wouldn't like to hear this also because i'm sure their very good friends also so watch what your saying apologeticsman! Cos you don't know what your talking about!!!

[Albainn1]

Haha, apologeticsman, you talk out of your arse, Celticcailleach is absolutely right! You don't have a clue about Piping or Scottish music at all! I'd love to see you put yourself on YouTube with your pipes, sound like a flock of dying goats through the streets! You'd be horendous and an absolute reject on the camera!! I know your entitled to your own opinion but lets face it, you don't know shit!! And your opinion is worthless because you don't know shit, so go dig yourself a grave!!

[apologeticsman]

Contrary to popular Scottish opinion, it is possible for an American piper to meet or even surpass the level of skill that people in Scotland have. It's not as though Scotland possesses some magical piping energy that only Scots can draw from, it is an instrument, and just as with any instrument, it takes time, talent and dedication to master. Americans have all of those factors well in hand

[apologeticsman]

@Albainn1 ok, that's your opinion, mine differs. It is not something to get upset about.

[apologeticsman]

Musicians are selling a product, you listen to what you like, & disregard what you do not, just as with any other product. It is a competition when it comes to bagpiping, & since the instrument itself is very simple & not prone to being tweaked or amped. the only criticism that can be made is of the piper him/herself. The man in this video is an excellent piper, but he is not as good in my OPINION as the one they have now. The above commenter just can't accept that I feel that way.