Tour Scotland Travel Video Piper Steven Gray Solo Piping Competition Highland Gathering Blair Atholl Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Piper Steven Gray playing the bagpipes at the Solo Piping Competition at the Highland Gathering on ancestry visit by Blair Castle in Blair Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland. The Atholl Gathering takes place on the Bank Holiday weekend at the end of May every year. This unrivalled spectacle gives locals and visitors alike the chance to participate in a unique Highland tradition that has persisted for generations.

Recorded as Gray, Graye, Grey, Greye, de Grey, MacGray, McGray, McGrah, McGreay, McGrey, and possibly others, this ancient Anglo Scottish surname has at least two possible origins. The first was Old English and a nickname or personal name for a man with grey hair or beard, from the pre 7th century word " graeg ", meaning grey. Although the name means the same in Scotland and Ireland,name holders there took their name from the early Gaelic word " riabhach " which also means brindled or grey.

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