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00:08 (bagpipes playing "Four Seasons")
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00:49 - Thank you for being here.
00:50 It sounds great and it's all for a good cause, remember.
00:53 So, thank you very much on behalf of Piping Live.
00:56 - It's great to welcome the big band to Kelvin Grove.
00:59 What's not to love?
01:00 - I'm Jacqueline McLaren, I'm the Lord Provost of Glasgow
01:03 and we're here because this is the start
01:04 of Piping Live week, culminating in the World's Bands,
01:08 World Piping Band Championship, which is on Saturday,
01:11 starting on Friday and Saturday,
01:12 and I'm the chieftain on Saturday.
01:14 Well, it's massive, they come from all over the world.
01:16 The bands come from all across the globe
01:19 to descend in Glasgow for those two days.
01:21 - What's the atmosphere like?
01:22 - Incredible.
01:23 You should get down there and buy a ticket and come.
01:25 - My name's Finlay MacDonald, I'm Artistic Director
01:28 of Piping Live, the Glasgow International Piping Festival,
01:32 and we've just finished the big band parade this year
01:35 in support of Versus Arthritis.
01:38 So, we're here at the wonderful Kelvin Grove Art Gallery.
01:42 We've had 130 people take part in the parade today
01:45 and it's a beautiful way to start the festival.
01:48 The sound of the pipes going through the streets of Glasgow,
01:50 there's nothing better.
01:51 Piping Live is on now until next Sunday.
01:55 So, Piping Live is on from the 12th to the 20th of August,
01:59 right here in Glasgow, various venues around the city,
02:02 but we're based at the National Piping Centre
02:03 at the top of Hope Street.
02:05 We've got a whole programme of events every day
02:06 from 11 o'clock at the National Piping Centre,
02:09 different venues around the city,
02:11 the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, a couple other venues.
02:14 So, there's something for everyone all week,
02:16 and if you check out our website, www.pipinglive.co.uk,
02:21 you've got all the programme information there.
02:23 For the festival, although piping's absolutely
02:25 at the heart of it, it's become a much broader festival
02:28 in terms of the kind of wider traditional music scene
02:31 and the international traditional music scene.
02:33 So, we've got some great artists,
02:35 and we always have had artists
02:36 from lots of different countries.
02:38 This year, we've got pipers from Estonia, from England,
02:42 Spain, North America, Canada, Japan.
02:45 So, it really is a celebration of piping of all forms,
02:48 but it's a music festival at the end of the day.
02:50 We're here to celebrate and support music of all kinds.
02:53 It's our 20th year.
02:55 It's hard to imagine that this is the 20th Piping Live.
02:59 It's a real privilege, actually, for me to get
03:02 to help programme this festival
03:04 and bring artists in from all over the world.
03:06 So, I mentioned before Caitlin Magie,
03:08 who's a brilliant Estonian piper,
03:11 bringing her show to Glasgow tonight,
03:13 the Monday evening concert.
03:15 Glasgow Green, Friday and Saturday next week
03:17 is the World Pipe Band Championships.
03:19 So, that's the big one for pipe bands.
03:21 There's several majors throughout the year,
03:24 but this is the one, the World Pipe Band Championships
03:28 happening on Friday and Saturday.
03:30 (audience applauding)
03:33 (audience cheering)
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