A Drum and Bagpipe Version of "Amazing Grace"

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This is a very Scottish drum and 

bagpipe version of “Amazing Grace.”  This version, especially, stirred my Scottish roots.  I am descended from the Grier family, a sept of Clan Gregor (Grier, from Grierson, which is from Gregorson, which is from MacGregor, which is from Clan Gregor and descends from the ancient Kings of the Picts and Dál Riata.  The personal name is Griogar, a form of Gregory, which in Greek means “watchful.” “Mac” in Scottish means “son of.”).  The MacGregors ran afoul of Clan Campbell and were outlawed for almost two hundred years.  Bearing the name of MacGregor was punishable by death. The family still proudly exists. The current chief of Clan Gregor is Sir Malcolm Gregor Charles Mac Gregor of Mac Gregor, 7th BT, of Lanrick and Balquhidder, 24th Chief of Clan Gregor.

The song, "Amazing Grace," is very closely associated with Scotland.

For those who do not know: the “skirts” that the musicians are wearing are called kilts.  The plaid designs (tartans) on the kilts are specific to and identify individual families (clans) and were the traditional everyday clothing, worn with great pride.  There is a legend that during World War I, Germans on the battlefield called their kilted Scot adversaries “the ladies from Hell.”  The last time that Scots wore kilts in battle was at Dunkirk in 1940.

  

Bagpipes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagpipe

Tartan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartan

Scottish clan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_clan

Kilt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilt