Cincinnati Caledonian Pipes and Drums, one of the oldest pipe bands in the United States, is dedicated to promoting and preserving the Scottish Celtic cultural and musical arts through piping, drumming and Highland dancing. They have been honored to play at such events as opening for The Black Watch, Rod Stewart, playing the half time show for the Cincinnati Bengals, playing the Cincinnati Celtic Festival since it started in the mid 1990s, and leading the Cincinnati St. Patrick’s Day parade. Their big event each year is the annual Tartan Day Ceilidh held in conjunction with National Tartan Day held in early April.
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Famous quotes containing the words pipes and/or drums:
“Because the Muses never knew their pains.
They boast their peasants’ pipes, but peasants now
Resign their pipes and plod behind the plough;”
—George Crabbe (1754–1832)
“It was soldiers went marching over the rocks
And still the birds came, came in watery flocks,
Because it was spring and the birds had to come.
No doubt that soldiers had to be marching
And that drums had to be rolling, rolling, rolling.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)