Live recordings on DVD from the pinnacle of the World Pipe Band Championships. The world's biggest bagpipe event, bringing together pipers, drummers and dancers from around the world and capturing the excitement of this great occasion. 84 minutes.

The World Pipe Band Championships are held annually in Glasgow, is organised by Glasgow City Council and the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association has been associated with the city since 1948. The World Pipe Band Championships take place in August when the great city fills with pipers from across the globe. A magical time! The event attracts at least 40,000 spectators and at least  8000 pipers.

Featuring both MSR and Medley performances from the bands in the top seven placings at the Grade 1 event at the World Pipe Band Championships 2006:

Field Marshal Montgomery (P/M R Parkes) - MSR: Highland Wedding / Blair Drummond / Pretty Marion * Medley: Trevor Buckley / Seonaidh’s Tune / John MacDougall Gillies / Tar The House / The Top Tier / The Bollywood Lounge / The Unknown Air / The Fiddler’s Rally.

Simon Fraser University ( P/M T Lee) - MSR: Lord Alexander Kennedy / The Caledonian Society of London / MacAlister’s Dirk Medley : Duncan Johnstone John Murchison / Balmoral Castle / The Four Courts / The Humours of Tulla / For Ireland I Will Not Tell Her Name / Emancipation / Finbar Saunders / For Ireland I Will Not Tell Her Name (Reprise).

The House of Edgar Shotts & Dykehead (P/M R Mathieson) - MSR: Highland Wedding / Atholl Cummers / Mrs MacPherson of Inveran * Medley: The Reunion / Upside Down in Eden Court / McKenna’s Ceilidh / Til Kingdom Come / The Dancing Stag / The Iron Man / Clueless / O’Connor’s Wake up Call / Lost in Time (Suite Reel) / Lost in Time (Waltz) / Lost in Time (Jig).

Strathclyde Police (P/M D MacKay) - MSR: Links of Forth / Atholl Cummers / MacAllister's Dirk * Medley : P/M Raymond Bradford / Michael MacDonald’s Jig / The Humours of Whiskey / Song for Shona / The Strathspey King / Miss Victoria Ross Strathspey / Miss Victoria Ross Reel / Lady Margaret Stewart / Peurt A’ Beul / The Noose and the Ghillies.

Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia (P/M R Walker) - MSR: The Argyllshire Gathering / Bogan Lochan / The Smith of Chilliechassie * Medley : The Italian Weedgie / Kirsty McCallman’s Favourite / P/M Sandy Gordon / Centennial / Lochaber to Argyll / An Air for Elliot / Johnny’s Jig / The Gold Ring * The Scottish Lion.

78th Fraser Highlanders (P/M W Livingstone) - MSR: Brigadier General Ronald Cheape of Tiroran / Blair Drummond / Charlie’s Welcome * Medley : Mad Dog’s Cabaret / Craig A Bodich / Miss Drummond of Perth, Bridge / Willie Murray’s Reel / Remember Culloden / Boys in the Lough / Upsidedown at Eden Court (Jig) - / Upside down in Eden Court (Hornpipe).

St Laurence O'Toole (P/M T Tully) - MSR: The Stirlingshire Militia / The Atholl Cummers / The Smith of Chilliechassie * Medley : The Big Yin / Blackley of Hillsdale / John Morrison of Assynt House / The Shepherd’s Daughter / Paddy Taylor’s / The Primrose Lass / Bool A Vogue / Molly Quinlan’s / The Battering Ram / Montagues

World Pipe Band Championships DVD is a double-sided DVD in both PAL and NTSC formats and should be suitable for playing in any region on any equipment supporting these formats.

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