Tour Scotland Travel Video Piper William Rowe Solo Piping Competition Highland Gathering Blair Atholl Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Piper William Rowe 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.

Rowe is a topographic name for someone who lived by a hedgerow or in a row of houses built next to one another, from Middle English row, northern Middle English raw, from Old English raw. from the medieval personal name Row, a variant of Rou or a short form of Rowland. English name adopted by bearers of French Baillargeon.

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