Tour Scotland Video Criterion Brass Band Festival Carnival Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of Criterion Brass Band at the Festival Carnival in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland. Criterion Brass Band are the Best New Orleans Style Brass Band in Scotland. The tradition of brass bands in New Orleans, Louisiana dates to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Traditionally, New Orleans brass bands could feature various instrumentations, often including trumpets, trombones, clarinets, saxophones, sousaphones and percussion. The music played by these groups was often a fusion between European styled military band music and African folk music brought to the Americas by west African slaves and the idiom played a significant role in the development of traditional jazz. Early brass bands include the Eureka Brass Band, the Onward Brass Band, the Excelsior Brass Band, the Tuxedo Brass Band, the Young Tuxedo Brass Band, the Camelia Brass Band, and the Olympia Brass Band.

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Tour Scotland Video Pulse of the Place Samba Band Festival Carnival Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of Pulse of the Place Samba Band at the Festival Carnival in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland. Pulse of the Place is the largest youth samba band in Scotland. The Pulse story started in 1998. A project funded through Art City and conceived by their creative director, Mary Walters, brought Mat Clements to the Royal Mile Primary to run a short samba drumming project. The project culminated in a first performance at the Mela Festival at Meadowbank Stadium.

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Old Photograph Birsay Orkney Scotland

Old photograph of Birsay Orkney Islands, Scotland. The ruins of the Earl's Palace are at the northern end of this village. The late sixteenth century Palace was built by Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney.


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Tour Scotland Video Piobaireachd Competition Lochearnhead HIghland Games

Tour Scotland travel video of the Piobaireachd Competition on ancestry history visit and trip to Lochearnhead. Lochearnhead and Strathyre Highland Games in Lochearnhead. The Druim a' Charraigh Quaich is presented annually by The Clan Gregor Society to the winner of the Piobaireachd Competition at Balquhidder, Lochearnhead and Strathyre Highland Games. This commemorates the MacGregor Piping School which flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries near the mouth of Glen Lyon. The word piobaireachd literally means pipe playing or pipe music, but is now used to describe the classical music of the Great Highland Bagpipe. Another name for it is Ceol Mor meaning the Big Music, which separates piobaireachd from all other forms of pipe music, for example; marches, reels, jigs etc; which are referred to as Ceol Beag, the Little Music.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Loch Leven Near Kinlochleven Scottish Highlands

Tour Scotland photograph of Loch Leven near Kinlochleven, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video Passenger Train Railway Bridge River Tay Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a Passenger Train crossing the railway bridge over the River Tay in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. I like the fact that train divers always wave to me when they see me on the bridge. That is nice. The previous bridge was built on a curve of 15 chain radius and was of predominantly timber construction. Problems with the foundations of the structure necessitated its replacement, the new bridge was designed by the engineers of the Caledonian Railway and was opened in 1863. It remains in regular use by passenger traffic.

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Tour Scotland Video Country Walk In The Rain Outside Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a walk in the rain on visit to a walking path outside Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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