Costa Mesa Highland Games

[cessna152towser]

Excellent pictures Richard.
I saw Triumph Street Pipe Band at North Berwick Games in Scotland last August, they certainly appear to travel around a lot.
Good to see the bands wearing matching hose rather than white, this trend has also been noticeable here in Scotland in recent years.

[GMan]

Wonderful pictures all the around.

[BoldHighlander]

Excellent photos everyone!

[OC Richard]

Excellent pictures Richard.
I saw Triumph Street Pipe Band at North Berwick Games in Scotland last August, they certainly appear to travel around a lot.
Good to see the bands wearing matching hose rather than white, this trend has also been noticeable here in Scotland in recent years.

It is nice to see bands trending away from white hose and shirts.

As recently as the early 2000's you might see every single band at a competition wearing white hose and shirts, with black everything else (flashes, neckties, jackets, hats, waistcoats, bagcovers, drone cords) with the only colour anywhere being the kilt itself. This black thing got carried away, with a few bands even wearing black shirts (with black waistcoats and neckties, not a pleasant sight, all those not-quite-matching shades of black).

And many of the bands in Scotland went away from white hose to black hose, so there's no more colour in their kit than before.

I myself think that most bands look better in blue shirts and some sort of coloured hose. The "ancient blue" hose worn by a couple of the bands above look great, I think.

I played at North Berwick in 2007. It was an amazing Games, such a lovely location. Since it's a tune-up Games for many bands leading up to the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow, there were bands from all over the world there: Brazil, Rome, Oman, New Zealand, Australia, USA, Canada, etc.