Members of the Oran Mor Pipe Band kick it last week with the Erin Harkes Band at Savannah’s in Albany, NY. Excellent holiday fun.
Admit it, 2010 is already fading from your memory like The Lost Piobroch. By the time this Saturday hits, your bagpipe competitive successes and failures will be replaced by thoughts of the coming 2011 piping season—new music, travel, delicious meat pies to come. Well, let us remind you that the last decade has not left U.S. piping and drumming unscathed. What has shaped our art through the first full decade of the twenty-first century? Here is a list of five things that shaped, or left an indelible mark on, American piping and drumming in the last ten years.