Cape Breton Pipe Band?

[Victor Maurice Faubert]

Donald Anderson wrote:
> 
>  I have no idea who this was but the piping and the fiddle music on the 
> links was great.
> 
> Donald , South Uist

The text
> Il primo concerto della Cape Breton Pipe Band da Saronno, al
> Capodanno Celtico Milano 2008. I brani sono: Battle of Waterloo, Itchy > Fingers, 
Sleepy Maggie, Sally Free and Easy e Rocking the Baby.
which reads
“The first concert of the Saronno Cape Breton Pipe Band at the 
Cappodanno Celtico Milano 2008 [see below]. The tunes are:  ‘Battle of 
Waterloo‘, ‘Itchy Fingers‘, ‘Sleepy Maggie‘, ‘Sally Free and Easy‘, and 
‘Rocking the Baby‘.”

Seaching Google for “Saronno” and “Cape Breton Pipe Band” led to the web 
page
<http://www.capodannoceltico.com/gruppi_musicali/cape_breton_pipe_band/cape_breton_pipe_band.html>, 
which contains the following text (you have to choose “View Source” to 
see it, as it does not otherwise appear, at least in my browser—it’s in 
the huge black area at the bottom of the web page):

> <p>La Cape Breton Pipe Band &egrave; una formazione musicale tipica
 > della Scozia, nata in Italia nel 2007 grazie alla collaborazione di
 > Jean-Luc Lefaucheur e Gareth Lewis.<br />
> Jean-Luc &egrave; bretone: dal 2007 vive in Italia, a Milano, e suona
> 
 > diversi tipi di cornamusa (Highland Pipe, Border Pipe e Small Pipes), 
 > il cui studio &egrave; stato approfondito negli anni precedenti,
 > durante un soggiorno di &nbsp;8 anni a Glasgow.<br />
> Gareth &egrave; scozzese, da Aberdeen, vive in Italia dal 2001 e
> suona la Highland Pipe.<br />
> Attualmente la banda &egrave; composta da musicisti italiani,
> scozzesi e bretoni: il sound &egrave; un mix di cornamuse (Highland
 > Pipes) e percussioni ed il repertorio, ovviamente, spazia dalla
 > tradizione scozzese fino ad arrivare in Irlanda e in Bretania.<br />
> Cape Breton &egrave; associata alla Scuola di Musica di Saronno
 > &ldquo;Albero Musicale&rdquo;, dove i fondatori della band svolgono
 > attivit&agrave; d&rsquo;insegnamento, e ad un&rsquo;altra Pipe Band
 > Scozzese, con cui partecipano anche a varie competizioni.</p>

I never studied Italian, but with Latin, French, and Spanish and an 
Italian dictionary, I’d render the above text as follows:

“The Cape Breton Pipe Band is a typically Scottish musical group born in 
Italy in 2007 thanks to the collaboration of Jean-Luc Lefaucheur and 
Gareth Lewis.

“Jean-Luc is Breton; since 2007, he has been living in Italy at Milan 
and plays various types of bagpipes (Highland pipes, border pipes and 
small pipes); his art was honed during a sojourn of eight years in Glasgow.

“Gareth is Scottish, from Aberdeen, and has been living in Italy since 
2001; he plays the Highland pipes.

“At the present time, the band is composed of Italian, Scottish, and 
Breton musicians: its sound is a mix of bagpipes (Highland pipes) and 
percussion and its repertory, obviously, ranges from the Scottish to the 
Irish and Breton traditions.

“Cape Breton is associated with the “Albero Musicale” School of Music in 
Saronno [an Italian city near the Swiss border in the province of 
Varonese] where the band’s founders are involved in instructional 
activities and with another Scottish pipe band with which they also 
participate in several competitions.”

[Unless there is some twinning between Cape Breton Island and Saronno of 
which I am unaware, I assume “Cape Breton” in the last paragraph really 
means the “Cape Breton Pipe Band [of Saronno]”.]

The performance was apparently shot at the 25 October 2008 concert in 
Milan of the “Capodanno Celtico” (literally, Celtic New Years Day”), an 
Italian musical association.

So, we have the names of two of the players; perhaps someone can now 
find the others?
-- 
                                                      Vic