Originally Posted by
John_Carrick
Attended St Patrick's Day Parade in Sligo town in the West of Ireland today.
Pipe Bands: 6 all in tartan
That agrees with what I've seen (on the internet) of pipe bands in The Republic recently: bands one by one dropping solid kilts and going over to tartan kilts.
Perhaps part of the reason is the explosion in the number of tartans available, including "fashion" tartans that don't carry any previous "baggage" with them, and the general trend in The Pipe Band World for bands to adopt bespoke self-designed tartans.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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