Yosemite: Scottish Highland Games at Pleasanton, They're fun, colorful, somehow both serene and high energy, Curious how Scottish culture (or identity) at such Games informs a milieu that is transformative, such as to Scots' kinds of happiness or Scots' ways of knowing, Am enjoying Corvus Corax from Germany and their piping on bagpipes from the Middle Ages, Also enjoying the great piping of Stuart Liddell in Scotland

Scottish Highland Games at Pleasanton in the SF Bay Area's East Bay are happening this Saturday and Sunday.

They're fun, colorful, somehow both serene and high energy, and have a lot going on (these games are big in a good way)

http://www.thescottishgames.com/

http://www.caledonian.org/

Visitors can pay at the gate to the Games (about $20 for a day).

(I'm competing on bagpipes :)



Curious how Scottish culture (or identity) at such Games (and these particularly Scottish Games are in the United States) informs a milieu that is transformative, such as to Scots' kinds of happiness or Scots' ways of knowing.


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Am enjoying Corvus Corax and their piping - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QWS1xUkUaA  ...

Also enjoying the great piping of Stuart Liddell in Scotland -


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7zvKbl1R54 - these days.


Here's a helpful page on piping, among many piping pages, at wiki (editable) World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials ...

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