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Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo cancelled for 2021

Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo cancelled for 2021

This year’s Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo (REMT) will not go ahead. Buster Howes, the chief executive of the charity that organises the annual event, said in a statement this afternoon: “Despite the sense of optimism around the UK’s emergence from the pandemic and our huge enthusiasm to stage a performance this […]

The image of an unchanging art form

The image of an unchanging art form

Part 2 of Iain MacInnes’s 2000 John MacFadyen Lecture Competition is very much part and parcel of the piping culture here in Scotland, and its shaped not just the music, but also the style of performance. It all goes back to 1781, when the Highland Society of London started the […]