Now That is Bagpipe Freedom!

Bradley Parker performs his first set in the BBC Radio Scotland's Young Traditional Musician of the Year Final 2021.

The Road to Donemana by Bradley Parker, Mad Mick's by Ross Ainslie, Yer a Kent by Gordon Duncan, Sophie's by Bradley Parker

Video Credits: BBC Scotland

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Were the Bagpipes Banned as an Instrument of War?

For centuries, there has been a long-held belief that bagpipes were classified as an instrument of war and were banned in the Act of Proscription of 1746.

The story goes that in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745, culminating in the now infamous Battle of Culloden, possessing a set of pipes or playing bagpipes them was banned.

Unfortunately, history is always far more complicated than we think...

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