Gaitas! (Bagpipes!)

[Xipe Totec]

Bagad Batallon de San Patricio - MEXICO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KvswKwHYos

[Xipe Totec]

1. kick!

C'mon!

I'm in the mood for bagpipes!

Gimme some pipes!

Scotts are welcome too!

[EvolveOrConvolve]

2. I love the bagpipes!

Are they played now a lot in Mexico? I don't usually make a connection in my mind between Mexico and Scottish bagpipes.

Thanks for the post!

[Xipe Totec]

4. It is not very common,

but the gaitas is an instrument that transcends cultural barriers.

Here is the story behind the Mexican Bagpipes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiogUx5h28c

And here are some gaitas from Celtic Spain; Galicia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7B3FTQ88-k

[whistler162]

5. Hevia - A great piper, Spanish

http://www.amazon.com/Tierra-Nadie-Hevia/dp/B00000JJO2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hevia

[Xipe Totec]

8. I have his album

He is very good, but he is no Carlos Nuñez:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1bffYZdRm0

[whistler162]

11. And neither have the pipes or looks of Cristina Pato

but my favorite is Andrew Douglas - http://www.cnaturalmusic.com/cds.html

[Xipe Totec]

12. Since you're pulling out the big guns...

Belén Arboleya en "Pieces" - Diana floreada

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfsBSWgVqFk

[MiddleFingerMom]

3. Rufus Harley

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COOL name to begin with.
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How's this? Black man out of Wilmington, Delaware who played
jazz on the bagpipes (died about 4 years ago).
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Might be more jazz bagpipers now... but I think he was the
one and only for a LONG time.
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PBS in the Philadelphia area used to treat us to good video
recordings of him in between shows (probably fundraiser time),
but I haven't found a really good full recording of him online
yet.
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Here's an interesting little snippet of him doing a Coltrane piece.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmaicurzPb0
.

[old mark]

6. A friend's high school aged daughter bought a set of pipes online -

I would hate to be near his house while she is learning to play them....but she is a natural on wind instruments, and has learned several of them on her own in a few weeks.....

mark

[Xipe Totec]

7. Can't possibly be any worse than this...

Wonderwall on Asturian Gaitas...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VmooptWwVQ

And here they are, the Asturian bagpipes, for real...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEz2boDgetQ

[old mark]

14. Look, I took flute lessons long ago-ths student before me was a small girl

learning clarinet. She had no ability and no ear, but she had great power. Sounded like torturing cats.

mark

[old mark]

15. delete-dupe nt

[hedgehog]

9. Wild ass guess here - but is this group connected to the

Irish immigrant soldiers who joined the American army during Mexican-American War and who then crossed over to fight on Mexico's side?

[Xipe Totec]

10. Not bad for a wild assed guess...

The Saint Patrick's Battalion ( Batallón de San Patricio )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiogUx5h28c

PS:

My cousin just reported the birth of his sixth child.

The second redhead in his brood.

Yes, I am a descendant of the colorados; the readheaded Irish fighters.

Not all of them died that day at Churubusco.

[hedgehog]

13. My Dad told me about the San Patricos and I made my kids

watch the movie about them that came out a few years back. American history is nowhere near as tidy as the textbooks would have us believe!