Tour Scotland Video Simeon Baker Royal Mile Festival Fringe Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of Simeon Baker playing guitar on the Royal Mile at the Festival Fringe on ancestry visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. Simeon is a guitarist and songwriter with years of performance experience in Australia and UK. He plays a solo percussive guitar style. He moved to the UK for music and to take music to a larger audience.

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Tour Scotland Video Scottish Bagpiper Busking Royal Mile Festival Fringe Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of a Scottish Bagpiper playing on the Royal Mile at the Festival Fringe on ancestry visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. The bagpipe is first attested in Scotland around 1400 AD, having previously appeared in European artwork in Spain in the 13th century. The earliest references to bagpipes in Scotland are in a military context, and it is in that context that the Great Highland bagpipe became established in the British military and achieved the widespread prominence it enjoys today, whereas other bagpipe traditions throughout Europe, ranging from Portugal to Russia, almost universally went into decline by the late 19th and early 20th century.

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Tour Scotland Video The Pipes and Drums of Canada Marching Pitlochry

Tour Scotland video of the Pipes and Drums of Canada marching down Atholl Street on visit to Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. Including, Clans of Tecumseth Pipes and Drums, The Sons of Scotland Pipe Band, RCL Pembroke Branch, Royal Canadian Legion Hamilton Branch 163.

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Tour Scotland Video Drummers Pipes and Drums of Canada Pitlochry

Tour Scotland video of drummers of the Pipes and Drums of Canada on visit to Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Green Hills Of Tyrol Pipes and Drums of Canada

Tour Scotland travel video of the Pipes and Drums of Canada playing The Green Hills Of Tyrol on visit and trip to the Wellmeadow, a park in Blairgowriea, Perthshire, Scotland. Including, Clans of Tecumseth Pipes and Drums, The Sons of Scotland Pipe Band, RCL Pembroke Branch, Royal Canadian Legion Hamilton Branch 163

There was a soldier, a Scottish soldier
Who wandered far away and soldiered far away
There was none bolder, with good broad shoulders,
He fought in many a fray and fought and won

He's seen the glory, he's told the story
Of battles glorious and deeds victorious
But now he's sighing his heart is crying
To leave these green hills of Tyrol

Because these green hills are not Highland hills
Or the Islands hills they're not my lands hills,
As fair as these green foreign hills may be
They are not the hills of home..

And now this soldier, this Scottish soldier,
Who wandered far away and soldiered far away
Sees leaves are falling, and death is calling
And he will fade away, on that dark land

He called his piper, his trusty piper
And bade him sound a lay, a pibroch sad to play
Upon a hillside but Scottish hillside
Not on these green hills of Tyrol

And now this soldier this Scottish soldier
Who wanders far no more, and soldiers far no more
Now on a hillside, a Scottish hillside
You'll see a piper play this soldier home

He's seen the glory, he's told the story
Of battles glorious and deeds victorious
But he will cease now, he is at peace now
Far from these green hills of Tyrol

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