International Bagpipe Day – Rapalje Show 91

On March 10th it was International Bagpipe Day.

Right on the day that we also planned a livestream on Facebook. So David Myles came over to the Rapalje Studio and we showed the different bagpipes used at concerts from Rapalje..

International Bagpipe Day is now a well established and increasingly popular event. Every March 10th you are invited to go out and play your pipes – anywhere, anyhow to anyone! In 2013 we had an excellent event in Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford – amazingly – visitor numbers increased by 25% compared to normal attendance at that time of year. We also received reports back from around the world, ranging from a pipe band performance in an underground cavern in South Africa, to a party on an Athenian hill in Greece.

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Theater preview: Still Into Folk met dans – Heerde

We will be playing our awesome new Still Into Folk show in het Dorpshuis in Heerde (NL) on the 11th of May 2019, see you there? Tickets available here

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Theater preview: Still Into Folk Zaandam

We will be playing our awesome new Still Into Folk show in het Zaantheater in Zaandam (NL) on the 29th of March 2019, see you there? Tickets available here

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Celtic Folk Night Preview – Dortmund

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Video: David’s Disturbing Bagpipes – Rapalje Show 70

A Happy New Year!

Did you get out of bed? Most of you celebrated probably

Please tell me in the comments If you really had a hard time getting out of bed

You have a hangover? Did you have a party?

 

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Celtic Folk Night this Saturday – Oldenzaal

We are playing our Celtic Folk Night in Oldenzaal (NL) this Saturday the 3rd of november, will you join us? Tickets available here Continue reading “Celtic Folk Night this Saturday – Oldenzaal”

Video: Scotland’s Story at Castlefest

Two thousand years ago the Celts were driven off of mainland Europe.

All Celts? No, one band bravely resisted the influx of modern pop and rock and found their own place in the world of music.

Armed with nothing but their voices and instruments, Rapalje is raiding clubs and halls far and wide, looking for victims to carry away on a musical journey through Scottish Highlands, Irish valleys, taverns and inns.

Ladies and gentlemen, let’s dance…

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Video: The Skye Boat Song – Outlander Theme Song

The Skye Boat Song” is a modern Scottish song which has entered into the folk canon in recent times.

It can be played as a waltz, recalling the escape of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) from Uist to the Isle of Skye after his defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746.

The text of the song gives an account of how Bonnie Prince Charlie, disguised as a serving maid, escaped in a small boat after the defeat of his Jacobite rising of 1745, with the aid of Flora MacDonald. The song draws on the motifs of Jacobitism although it was composed nearly a century and a half after the episode it describes.It is often supposed that it describes Charles’s flight from the mainland, but this is unhistorical. The only time Charles was in Skye was when he left Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides to avoid the increasingly thorough Government searches.

(Wikipedia)

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