Irish Bag Pipers

Well, I assumed they were "Irish" because I stumbled upon them on St. Patrick's day. For all I know, there is mixed heritage among them, or maybe they are all Scotish. But, after 10,000 views, and lots of positive comments, no one has asked me to correct the title.

If as noted they are irish pipers why are they advertising a scottish whiskey distillery (bells)and playing scotland the brave!

Irish people are awesome, their music is the greatest.
I would be damn proud to be Irish.

But I'm Canadian and we have no real or proud heritage here, lol...hahahahaa that sux...

fantastic

im very proudly irish as well im all about my heritage =)

Haha My Dad is best friends with Bill (one of em). They play every wednesday at walking man, Stevenson, Im proud to be affiliated with these Musicians. My dads an Irish fiddler and Piper. Im proud of my heritage!

I'm proud, that celtic culture still living in us! I'm russian, and in ancient times celtian tribes helped to russian more than 150 years!

There's tww that blend in: "Scotland the Brave" and "The Rowan Tree."

what tune is this?

Thanks for the info!

Celts were an ancient fairly nomadic group of people who made thier way through Europe eventually sailing off the coast of present day Iberia (in Spain) and inhabiting Ireland then Scotland and Wales. There, the Celts evolved and took root and developed so many unique cultural attributions.
The Gaelic Lanuage was born out of this as was so much great music and art. Today "Celtic" is mostly identified with Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Descendants even have a traceable gene.

No expert here, but I always thought celtic referred to the ancient tribal connections of Northern Europeans. I googled it and the best response was from wikipedia which has a lot of detail if your really interested. Otherwise, some of the other commenters here might chime in and explain it.

i dont go to church so whats celtic?

heres what i found
"The earliest possible reference to a bagpipe occurs around 400 BC, when Aristophanes, the Athenian poet jibed that the pipers of Thebes (an enemy of Athens) blew pipes made of dogskin with chanters made of bone."
found it on wikipedia but i've seen it on other websites aswell
these were not really bagpipes but i think its like a pre-bagpipe ^^

Damn straight! I'm of the clan McIan, sept clan of clan McDonald, and of the Irish clan McKean...

Seeing as this band is named after a place in Ireland(Kells) and are wearing green Irish kilts it is daft to make out that they are trying to be Scots . I would not accuse Scots of trying to be Irish because they often play Irish tunes or are Irish in origin but popular in Scotland like the C**k of the North,Ae Fond kiss or Gone to the Hills. By your logic I should slag off the next non-Irish piper that plays Pumpkin's Fancy or the Mason's Apron but that would just make me a dickhead.

oh and by the way,

Historians believe the bag pipes were invented in Ireland.

Scots and Irish share a VERY common Celtic and for that matter Gaelic ancestory. 700 years ago they spoke virtualy the same language. They are BROTHERS to each other. Most Irish and Scots still feel that way. Anymocity exists between the ENGLISH and both countries. The subtleties in each culture is what makes them unique and strong not enemies....
Find celtic descendants from Ire and Scot...do a DNA test....you'll be suprised.

They should share in the playing of the pipes.

They Are Playing Scotland The Brave Which IS Scottish ?????

serbiansocialist am with you what is it with these bands tryin to be scots piss off & stick to your high school marchin bands !!!!

irish play pipes too. world champs grade 1 field marshall montgomery is from belfast
the warpipe came from ireland then to scotland with 3rd drone added later

I prefer Scottish bagpipe music!

Can it be played any faster ??

Those two tunes are standard, ah, tuning tunes. Easy (fairly) to play, and easy to get pipes warmed up on & in tune. Which is what it appears they were doing. Impromptu stop, a PM wouldnt simply wave his hand to stop a tune. And, he was walking around tuning drones...dead giveaway right there.
And, tunes were STB and Rowan Tree, as others already pointed out.

This might have been their warm-up prior to marching out of the parking lot. It was kind a spontaneous thing that I happened to capture. As a non-musician Irish-American, I had not idea what they were playing, but it sounded good to me! Merry Christmas!