Bagpipes And Drums Music Catamount Pipe Band On Visit To Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video compilation of the bagpipes and drums music of Catamount Pipe Band from from Vermont, America, on visit to Perth, Perthshire. The band wears Hume tartan kilts. Vermont is a northeastern state in the New England region of the United States. It borders the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north.
The surname Hume was first found in Berwickshire an ancient county of Scotland, presently part of the Scottish Borders Council Area, located in the eastern part of the Borders Region of Scotland. They held the barony of Home from very early times, and possibly predate the Norman Conquest in 1066. There were many branches of the Hume family including the Homes of Cowdenknowes, the Homes of Wedderburn, the Homes of Manderston, the Homes of Renton, the Homes of Kames, and the Homes of Blackadder.

The Great Highland Bagpipe or Piob Mhor, is an instrument with opposing harsh shrills and graceful tones, meant to be played outdoors, in the open countryside and it is well suited in inspiring Scotsmen, and women, on the field of battle and in the aftermath, mourning the fallen, or celebrating victory. Through history, pipers are remembered for being mortally or seriously wounded the latter whilst continuing to play in the face of adversity. The kilt first appeared as the great kilt, the breacan or belted plaid, during the 16th century in the Scottish Highlands and is Gaelic in origin. The filleadh mòr or great kilt was a full length garment whose upper half could be worn as a cloak draped over the shoulder, or brought up over the head. A version of the filleadh beag, philibeg, or small kilt, was also known as the walking kilt. The small kilt or modern kilt emerged in the 18th century, and is essentially the bottom half of the great kilt. Since the 19th century, it has become associated with the wider culture of Scotland, and more broadly with Gaelic or Celtic heritage. It is most often made of woollen cloth in a tartan pattern.

Robert Hume, landed in Wanganui, New Zealand in 1840; Alexander Hume, landed in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1749; John Hume settled in King's County, New Brunswick, Canada, in 1784; James Hume settled in Virginia, America, in 1648; Thomas Hume landed in Maryland, America, in 1716; William Hume, aged 40, arrived in Tennessee, America, in 1812; Alexander Hume arrived in New York, America, in 1824.

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