Cape Breton Pipe Band?

[Judith Rosen]

Wow! Thank you so much for clearing up this mystery-- I am very  
impressed!

I confess to being dumbfounded at the idea that there is a Scottish  
pipe band based in Italy, called "The Cape Breton Pipe Band"... which  
has nothing to do with Cape Breton as we know it. I wonder if there  
really is a "Cape" in Breton, that is referred to here, or if they just  
thought it sounded good, or what.

On the down side, I think I'm losing my touch: I could have sworn I  
detected some of the Gaelic College's pipe fingering, especially in the  
younger guy on the left. Ah well, they were still very good and it's  
nice to see how the Scots are infiltrating other places, too!

Judith
PS: Speaking of Scots infiltrating, I just discovered Craig Ferguson,  
who is currently the host of The Late, Late Show on CBS in the States.  
Here's a couple samples of him for those interested... The second one  
has Billy Connolly, my favorite comedian of all time, as a guest on the  
show. Two Glasgow accents in one YouTube clip. (I feel a bit like Jamie  
Lee Curtis in "A Fish Called Wanda"... Except for her it was the  
Italian and Russian accents that set her going.) Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bbaRyDLMvA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG7Z9lxgBM0
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On Dec 11, 2008, at 11:02 AM, Victor Maurice Faubert wrote:

> 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
>
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