Bagpipes And Drums Music Of MacKenzie Caledonian Pipe Band Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video compilation of the bagpipes and drums music of the MacKenzie Caledonian Pipe Band, from Dundee, Tayside. The band wears the Ancient MacKenzie Tartan kilts. The Mac Cals as they are informally referred to, is a long established organisation based in the City of Dundee. The band wears the Ancient MacKenzie Tartan. The Mackenzie Tartan is the regimental tartan of the Seaforth Highlanders, which were raised by Mackenzie, Earl of Seaforth in 1778. The Mackenzie Pipe band was founded in 1918 by Pipe Major James Mackenzie on visit at the end of the Great War to accommodate the returning ex-servicemen fulfilling their musical ambitions. In 1958, the Mackenzie Pipe Band amalgamated with the Caledonian band to form the Mackenzie Caledonian Pipe Band. 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.

Clan Mackenzie, Scottish Gaelic: Clann Choinnich, is a Scottish clan, traditionally associated with Kintail and lands in Ross-shire in the Scottish Highlands. Traditional genealogies trace the ancestors of the Mackenzie chiefs to the 12th century. However, the earliest Mackenzie chief recorded by contemporary evidence is Alexander Mackenzie of Kintail who died some time after 1471. Traditionally, during the Wars of Scottish Independence, the Mackenzies supported Robert the Bruce, but feuded with the Earls of Ross in the latter part of the 14th century. During the 15th and 16th centuries the Mackenzies feuded with the neighboring clans of Munro and MacDonald. In the 17th century the Mackenzie chief was made Earl of Seaforth in the peerage of Scotland. During the Scottish Civil War of the 17th century the Mackenzies largely supported the Royalists. During the Jacobite rising of 1715 the chief and clan of Mackenzie supported the Jacobite cause. However, during the Jacobite rising of 1745 the clan was divided with the chief, Kenneth Mackenzie, Lord Fortrose, supporting the British Hanoverian Government and his relative, George Mackenzie, 3rd Earl of Cromartie, supporting the Jacobites.

William Mackenzie, was a Scottish Convict was convicted in Inverness, in the Higlands of Scotland for 7 years, and was transported aboard the Asia on 5th November 1835, arriving in Tasmania in 1836; John MacKenzie, arrived in Adelaide, Australia aboard the ship Helen Thompson in 1840; Duncan MacKenzie who settled in Canada in 1784; Elizabeth MacKenzie, landed in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1801; William Mackenzie, landed in Cape Fear, North Carolina, America, in 1746; Mary Mackenzie, arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, America, in 1758.

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