WE'LL NEVER FORGET! IT'S NATIONAL BLOW BAGPIPES DAY! 2009 SUMMERFEST PIPERS AND 2011 FATHER MIKE AT HOLY NAME

Welcome to Everything Croton, a collection of all things Croton--our history, our homes, our issues, our businesses, our schools, our houses of worship--in short, EVERYTHING CROTON.

IT'S NATIONAL BLOW BAGPIPES DAY! READ MORE ABOUT IT HERE.  

AND CLICK ON THE PHOTOS FROM THE 2009 CROTON SUMMERFEST PARADE FEATURING LOCAL 21 N.Y. PIPES & DRUMS!  They were fantastic!
 
EXCERPTS: Originally pastoral and festive, the military began using the bagpipe in the eighteenth century and accompanied it with drums. Battlefields were loud, so instruments were used to communicate.

Bagpipers from clans—who were often at war with each other—would inspire soldiers before battle, and played during battles to signal movements, attacks, and retreats. 

When the Scottish uprising of 1745 failed, military training was banned. Thus, the bagpipe could no longer be used in this context anymore, although it was not banned for other uses.  In the Scottish Lowlands, pipers held important positions in communities. There were town pipers, and those who played dance music and songs at weddings, feasts, and fairs. The soft sounding Scottish Lowland bagpipe was played from about 1750 to 1850; it had a bellows, and three drones in one stock.

When England and Scotland united in the early eighteenth century, bagpipes were brought all over the world to British colonies, to places such as Africa and Ceylon.  

YOU CAN SEE MORE PHOTOS FROM THE 2009 CROTON SUMMERFEST COURTESY OF ROB ASTORINO AT HIS FLICKR PHOTOSTREAM HERE AND HERE. 

AND FATHER MIKE OF HOLY NAME OF MARY AND THE PIPERS AT THE 2011 ST. PATRICK'S CELEBRATION  https://www.flickr.com/photos/54481157@N07/sets/72157626260334558/ 

Note: All content on this blog is Copyright (c) by Maria Cudequest and by the posters who have contributed specific content. All material is for your personal use only. No content or photos may be republished or sold, without prior written consent from your editor and the individual who contributed the content in question. For permissions or questions about this policy, please contact the editor.