A Halifax Bagpiper has won the Silver Star award in Scotland as the best bagpiper in the world. Only the 2nd time someone outside Scotland has won it.
Talk about a good news story!

On 9/12/2015 12:01 PM, True North wrote:
A Halifax Bagpiper has won the Silver Star award in Scotland as the best bagpiper in the world. Only the 2nd time someone outside Scotland has won it.
Talk about a good news story!

Wow Golly gee That's terrific

On 9/12/15 12:01 PM, True North wrote:
A Halifax Bagpiper has won the Silver Star award in Scotland as the best bagpiper in the world. Only the 2nd time someone outside Scotland has won it.
Talk about a good news story!

That's cool. I have a buddy who is a piper and who is also a scientist
on our country's nuclear weapons programs. I'm pretty sure the two
activities are not related! :

On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 09:01:32 -0700 (PDT), True North
wrote:

A Halifax Bagpiper has won the Silver Star award in Scotland as the best bagpiper in the world. Only the 2nd time someone outside Scotland has won it.
Talk about a good news story!

===

Chuck Gould, a well known writer and sometime publisher in the Pacific
North West, is also a bagpiper. Chuck used to post here frequently in
the past and was always a welcome voice of reason amidst the usual cat
fights.

On 9/12/2015 2:15 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 09:01:32 -0700 (PDT), True North
wrote:

A Halifax Bagpiper has won the Silver Star award in Scotland as the best bagpiper in the world. Only the 2nd time someone outside Scotland has won it.
Talk about a good news story!

===

Chuck Gould, a well known writer and sometime publisher in the Pacific
North West, is also a bagpiper. Chuck used to post here frequently in
the past and was always a welcome voice of reason amidst the usual cat
fights.


I think the tradition and history of bagpipes and fire departments is
pretty cool. Scotland is usually considered to where bagpipes
originated but actually they were more generally Celtic and the Irish
also has a long history of bagpiping as well.

In the early days in the northeast (1800's) and especially in Boston and
New York ... Irish immigrants weren't particularly welcome. The only
jobs they could find were the "dirty" and "dangerous" ones .. namely
fire fighters and police. The tradition of playing bagpipes at a
funeral was a tradition in Ireland and the Irish immigrants continued
the tradition when they came to the USA.

We have a fire station just down the street from our house. When a
firefighter dies (and maybe a policeman) we often see a lone person
walking outside the station in full Irish garb, (including a kilt)
playing the bagpipes in the deceased's honor.

On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 16:37:54 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 9/12/2015 2:15 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 09:01:32 -0700 (PDT), True North
wrote:

A Halifax Bagpiper has won the Silver Star award in Scotland as the best bagpiper in the world. Only the 2nd time someone outside Scotland has won it.
Talk about a good news story!

===

Chuck Gould, a well known writer and sometime publisher in the Pacific
North West, is also a bagpiper. Chuck used to post here frequently in
the past and was always a welcome voice of reason amidst the usual cat
fights.


I think the tradition and history of bagpipes and fire departments is
pretty cool. Scotland is usually considered to where bagpipes
originated but actually they were more generally Celtic and the Irish
also has a long history of bagpiping as well.

In the early days in the northeast (1800's) and especially in Boston and
New York ... Irish immigrants weren't particularly welcome. The only
jobs they could find were the "dirty" and "dangerous" ones .. namely
fire fighters and police. The tradition of playing bagpipes at a
funeral was a tradition in Ireland and the Irish immigrants continued
the tradition when they came to the USA.

We have a fire station just down the street from our house. When a
firefighter dies (and maybe a policeman) we often see a lone person
walking outside the station in full Irish garb, (including a kilt)
playing the bagpipes in the deceased's honor.

===

Nice tradition.

On 9/12/2015 4:40 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 16:37:54 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 9/12/2015 2:15 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 09:01:32 -0700 (PDT), True North
wrote:

A Halifax Bagpiper has won the Silver Star award in Scotland as the best bagpiper in the world. Only the 2nd time someone outside Scotland has won it.
Talk about a good news story!

===

Chuck Gould, a well known writer and sometime publisher in the Pacific
North West, is also a bagpiper. Chuck used to post here frequently in
the past and was always a welcome voice of reason amidst the usual cat
fights.


I think the tradition and history of bagpipes and fire departments is
pretty cool. Scotland is usually considered to where bagpipes
originated but actually they were more generally Celtic and the Irish
also has a long history of bagpiping as well.

In the early days in the northeast (1800's) and especially in Boston and
New York ... Irish immigrants weren't particularly welcome. The only
jobs they could find were the "dirty" and "dangerous" ones .. namely
fire fighters and police. The tradition of playing bagpipes at a
funeral was a tradition in Ireland and the Irish immigrants continued
the tradition when they came to the USA.

We have a fire station just down the street from our house. When a
firefighter dies (and maybe a policeman) we often see a lone person
walking outside the station in full Irish garb, (including a kilt)
playing the bagpipes in the deceased's honor.

===

Nice tradition.



I always thought it was more of a national tradition across the USA.
Apparently it is much more common in Boston, New York and Philadelphia.
Makes sense because those areas are where most of the Irish immigrants
originally settled.

On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 16:37:54 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 9/12/2015 2:15 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 09:01:32 -0700 (PDT), True North
wrote:

A Halifax Bagpiper has won the Silver Star award in Scotland as the best bagpiper in the world. Only the 2nd time someone outside Scotland has won it.
Talk about a good news story!

===

Chuck Gould, a well known writer and sometime publisher in the Pacific
North West, is also a bagpiper. Chuck used to post here frequently in
the past and was always a welcome voice of reason amidst the usual cat
fights.


I think the tradition and history of bagpipes and fire departments is
pretty cool. Scotland is usually considered to where bagpipes
originated but actually they were more generally Celtic and the Irish
also has a long history of bagpiping as well.

In the early days in the northeast (1800's) and especially in Boston and
New York ... Irish immigrants weren't particularly welcome. The only
jobs they could find were the "dirty" and "dangerous" ones .. namely
fire fighters and police. The tradition of playing bagpipes at a
funeral was a tradition in Ireland and the Irish immigrants continued
the tradition when they came to the USA.

We have a fire station just down the street from our house. When a
firefighter dies (and maybe a policeman) we often see a lone person
walking outside the station in full Irish garb, (including a kilt)
playing the bagpipes in the deceased's honor.

I think it goes back to the number of Scots and Irish who were the
police and the firemen for years in the north east,

BTW this is the kind of story I see on New Zealand TV.
It is why I watch ;-)
Nice break from the insanity. ... and how do you think the All Blacks
will do in the "cup"?

True North wrote:
A Halifax Bagpiper has won the Silver Star award in Scotland as the best bagpiper in the world. Only the 2nd time someone outside Scotland has won it.
Talk about a good news story!


Seriously? You are either trolling or dumber than I ever imagined.

On 9/13/2015 11:12 AM, True North wrote:
On Saturday, 12 September 2015 23:11:19 UTC-3, Alex wrote:
True North wrote:
A Halifax Bagpiper has won the Silver Star award in Scotland as the best bagpiper in the world. Only the 2nd time someone outside Scotland has won it.
Talk about a good news story!


Seriously? You are either trolling or dumber than I ever imagined.

In more cultured locations we actually are proud of something more than football or basketball players, Ditzy.

Celine, Michael Bublé, or Shenia maybe. Bagpipes, not so much.