Albannach

[Pour1Malt]

They're good, but there's a lot of better groups. Wolfstone, Rare Air, The Tannahill Weavers, and Deaf Shepherd all have amazing pipers!! I won't even metion the Battlefield Band. Have you heard the tune The Canongate Twitch? Mike Katz is brilliant!

ya arr sae wrang wee lad...

drums and pipes- that is a' ai need arr want...

ya add guitars, fiddles, arr keyboards (gasp )

an ya have ruined a perfectly guid thing!

[Rusty]

ya arr sae wrang wee lad...

drums and pipes- that is a' AI need arr want...

ya add guitars, fiddles, arr keyboards (gasp )

an ya have ruined a perfectly guid thing!

I respectfully disagree with you there. I went to a concert in Estes Park last year and an Aussie band called "Brother" opened for Seven Nations. Talk about tribal.... these guys had a keyboard and a digereedoo and they were great. But then again Wolfstone is an entirely different class of band.

[beloitpiper]

ya arr sae wrang wee lad...

drums and pipes- that is a' ai need arr want...

ya add guitars, fiddles, arr keyboards (gasp )

an ya have ruined a perfectly guid thing!

I dunno... I mean, don't get me wrong, Albannach and Wicked Tinkers are good, but I enjoy the musical skill required to put together guitar, fiddle, bagpipes, drums. I mean, I could go out on campus right now, round up a few guys and give them African drums, pull out my pipes, and we could play an Albannach song. But if you listen to something like Bodachan A Gharaidh by the Battlefield Band or Islay's Charms by Deaf Shepherd or Clueless by Wolfstone, you'll hear very skilled musicians at their best coming together to make a complex, yet pleasant, sound that interweaves traditional Scottish folk music with newer ideas and themes.

Just my opinion...