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.

NIEUW ALBUM “SCOTLANDS STORY”

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Visiting a Scouting Group – Rapalje Show 90

David and Maceál visit Scouting Group “De Havik” in Ommen, the Netherlands.

We had a lovely dinner with “stamppot”: Potatoes, carrots, union and sausages.

We learned what scouts do on a day like this: making things from wood and rope, play games, run, run and run, sing songs around the campfire

And we got a nice cup of coffee made with electricity in stead of wood-fire..

SCOUTING-GROEP DE HAVIK

NIEUW ALBUM “SCOTLANDS STORY”

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Fishing with Musicians – Rapalje Show 89

Good evening and we’re live again at the Meister’s Forellenhof

http://www.meisters-forellenhof.de

It’s a beautiful place. Also to take a stroll in the evening. Just for a night walk or whatever. And we got a beautiful sunset

So we are going fishing for trout

It’s been a long time since I’ve been fishing, about 20 – 30 years

When I don’t got nothing to do I come here Just for rest

Normally I don’t got nothing. I don’t even need bait. I don’t hook the fish up. But, if I’m hungry, then it’s trout alarm

Then I’m coming with my special bait. I fish with worms and fake bait

And when we catch something. What are we going to do with it? Going to eat it! You kill it, I grill it

We look like real fisher men. Specially William with the beard

When we say in German: “Petri heil”. Means “Good luck for fishing” in German

If children what to fish here they have to do a 2 days course. To learn how to fish and to remove a hook from a fish mouth. Because it can be very painful. And how to kill a fish as well. If you want to eat him. Otherwise you throw him back and let him free

Fishermen always telling stories about these things. What the best bait is and whatever. But believe me. There’s no best bait. And there’s no good fishermen. There’s just stupid fish who bites in the bait

We are very good for the animals. We’re not a threat for animals at all. Maybe we will be vegetarians some day. We never catch animals. Vegetarians are only bad hunters

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Let’s go for a swim in Engelbert – Rapalje Show 88

with William at a diving tower in.. Engelbert “Anglebert”
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Alex from CeltCast.com in Rapalje Show 87

Alex from CeltCast.com is guest in our Studio.

We talk about our new album, how we first met, the festivals he is going to and streaming from and more..

NEW ALBUM “SCOTLANDS STORY”

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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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Video: Where do you watch our videos? – Rapalje Show 84

Welcome to another livestream on facebook. And another Rapalje Show on YouTube.

Where do you see our videos?

Because there are many videos every week with a live stream. We have a Rapalje Show made from this live stream. With extra material and videos I shot in between. Funny moments, things we’ve done in the past.

I want to know where you see our videos Do you watch them on YouTube? On Instagram? Facebook? On Vimeo? Or are you a patron

And you watch the videos on our Patreon account, with the extra videos we make as well

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Video: Last videos from Dominican Republic – Rapalje Show 83

Welcome to another episode from the Rapalje Show!

In this video you will see one of the last edits I did for the Dominican Republic We met our good friends, the musicians, from the band that performed, at our table and on all the tables from all the people who where eating there. We met them a couple of nights before because we did a session, played together on the beach

I found some other “gems”. Also did a very special edit I was waiting for because it was so much work to get it all synchronized. You will see this in the end and there’s a special treat for our patrons as well

On our Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/rapalje_celtic_folk_music , you can also see and hear all the extra musicians and extra party and things we are doing on our tour in the Dominican Republic And this is an edit from all the places we performed this song “Galway Girl”

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