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It may have been inspired by the war of the Jacobite rising of 1715 (John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll was the loyalist war leader and many Scottish loyalists were Campbells); According to Lewis Winstock [5] the tune accompanied the Scottish loyalist vanguard in the Jacobite war, [2] and Robert Wodrow ascribes that name to one of the bagpipe ...
The music video for "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)", was filmed on 23 February 1976 for the Australian music television program Countdown. It featured the band and the members of the Rats of Tobruk Pipe band on the back of a flatbed truck travelling on Swanston Street in Melbourne. The video was directed by Paul Drane ...
Powell was the first to compliment Harley on his contributions with Celtic bagpipes to American music. [6] Writing in the sleeve notes for the album, Ralph Stevenson Jr., Harley's executive producer, noted: Rufus Harley resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania home of the Liberty Bell.
John Grant FSA Scot (11 August 1876 [1] – 25 April 1961) [2] was an amateur aficionado of the Great Highland bagpipe who, for over fifty years, composed piobaireachd and Ceòl Beag for members of the British Royal Family, important noblemen and women, and contemporary statesmen; [3] wrote and published books on the Great Highland Bagpipe and its music; [4] and taught students under the ...
In 1950 he became the youngest ever winner of the gold medals for piobaireachd at both the Argyllshire Gathering in Oban and the Northern Meeting in Inverness, at the age of 16. [ 3 ] [ 2 ] He initially intended to pursue piping as a hobby, and pursue a career training horses, but he went on a tour of Canada and the United States with Willie ...
In 1910 he became the second piper ever to win the gold medals at the Northern Meeting and Argyllshire Gathering in the same year. [2] He was a friend and contemporary of G.S. McLennan , and they travelled to competitions together and shared prize money.
Duncan created a new style of idiosyncratic bagpipe music. [1] He also incorporated the bagpipes into a rendition of AC/DC's Thunderstruck. [2] His work was heard at T in the Park, Celtic Connections, Celtic Colours in Canada, the Lorient festival in Brittany, where he was the two-time winner of the MacAllan Trophy and the Fleadh Cheoil in ...
Lee is a successful solo competitor, having won a significant number of major prizes, including both Highland Society of London Gold Medals (Argyllshire Gathering in 2001 and Northern Meeting in 1981,) [1] the former winner's Clasp at the Northern Meeting (1994), the Canadian Gold Medal (2002), and was the first North American piper to win the Glenfiddich Solo Piping Championship (2003).