Piping Live 2012

Published: 27 Aug 2012

Tom and Rae Mitchell attended Piping Live in Glasgow from Monday 6 until Friday 10th August 2012.

Standing behind a stall for a week may not be for the faint-hearted but Tom and Rae took it in their stride and enjoyed the week. The stall was in the Marquee in George Square, and provided information and literature about An Comunn Gàidhealach and the Gaelic language in general.

They met numerous pipers and other visitors to Glasgow for the magnificent event that Piping Live and “the Worlds” has now become.

“We had lots of people coming to talk to us, people from all over the world Canadians, Australians, Germans and Americans, all asking about our Organisation and the Royal National Mod” explains Tom.

“We had an Englishman who spoke Gàidhlig, he had been on a course in SMO on Skye, we also had a Uistman who had joined the American Army, he could not be sent to fight in any other Country as he was an Immigrant, he then joined the police and is still serving and is in their Pipe Band, it was very interesting talking to him.

We had a nurse from China who was hoping to go to the Mod in Dunoon and very surprisingly we had a young Chinese Pastor who told us at the moment he is reading the Gàidhlig Bible.

It was a very interesting week for Rachel and I meeting all sorts of different races, the weather was good to us except Monday when it poured, the rest of the week the sun shone brightly”.

In addition to looking after the stall Tom and Rae had the opportunity to attend “Orain nam Piobairean”, with Breabach, Kathleen MacInnes and Friends and the able Fear an Taigh, Calum Ross. This event was on the Wednesday evening in the National Piping Centre.

The “Mitchell Mòd warm-up at Piping Live” is now a well established part of the An Comunn diary and we are grateful to Tom and Rae for their long and unstinting efforts to support the work of An Comunn Gàidhealach, the Mòd and the Gaelic language.

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