Year of the Dragon

[xman]

About a year ago I met Todd Wong (AKA fellow X-Marks member Toddish McWong) at one of our local kilts nights. He talked me into joining his dragon boat team and now I've been drafted into his ceilidh group. We played today at the Dr. Sun Yat Sen Chinese Gardens in town to celebrate the lunar new year. It was good fun. The crowd even sang along some too. Here are Todd and I in the gardens after performing.

[seanachie]

Nice kilt shots but too bad there are not more Chinese tartans regularly available. My wife is Chinese and I would surely get her something in:
http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tar...s.aspx?ref=636
We have not been to your park but have been to Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. I have worn a kilt throughout China so if you make the trip you won't have a problem.

[MacMillan's son]

Looking good X!

If you don't mind, tell us more about the music you play.

Cheers,
Brooke

[azwildcat96]

恭喜發財! (Gung hei faat coi!)

[CMcG]

Thanks for sharing that pic xman. Have you been to one of the Gung Haggis Fat Choi events? They look really fun...

Nice kilt shots but too bad there are not more Chinese tartans regularly available. My wife is Chinese and I would surely get her something in:
http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tar...s.aspx?ref=636
We have not been to your park but have been to Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. I have worn a kilt throughout China so if you make the trip you won't have a problem.

My lass has a kilt-skirt in the Chinese tartan and it is really nice. Here is us together on the way to a Tartan Day event last year:

[xman]

If you don't mind, tell us more about the music you play.

The band started out with a core form the JP Fell Pipe Band and includes a couple of pipers piping, usually on the small pipes. Ken plays the Irish 4 string banjo with heavy strings tuned an octave below standard which gives it a very pleasing sound. There are some fiddles, mandolins, a stand up bass and even a ukulele. Trish plays a 12 string and I'm on 6 string right now. Todd plays accordion. It's an informal group so members come and go as fits their schedule. I'll guess there's about 8 solid members and about as many informal invitees. Since there are pipers at the core there are reels and hornpipes such as Drowsy Maggie, O'Keefe's and others. We also play classic celtic folk tunes such as Loch Lomond, Farewell to Nova Scotia, Whiskey in the Jar and Black Velvet band, but some laments as well like The Massacre at Glencoe. I get an oddly perverse pleasure from this one as a MacDonald myself usually crying out to "Kill the Donalds" as we are about to play it. Only privately though. I guess I feel it gives me my reason to pick on Campbells whenever I get the chance.

[MacMillan's son]

Thanks for the reply X, it sounds like quite a fun group. Now I have to go look up some of those tunes and give them a listen! Play on friend