Thursday, August 6, 2026

Cuillin, Scotland: Happy Clan MacLeod Parliament on the Isle of Skye this first week of August 2026


Happy Clan MacLeod Parliament on the Isle of Skye this first week of August 2026 


Mark and Tammie, All,  

Happy Clan MacLeod Parliament on the Isle of Skye this first week of August 2026 - https://www.clanmacleod.org/parliament/parliament-2026/clan-macleod-parliament-august-2026-update/!

Are you on the Isle of Skye at Dunvegan castle now, or on the Isle of Raasay where Norman MacLeod father of James MacLeod, our ancestors, came from, before James MacLeod emigrated to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - and became a kilt maker and tailor - in the 1820s, I think, n'est-ce pas?


How are you doing? How is your MacLeod genetic genealogy further research going. Mark? 


Thanks to Tammie Vawter, Mrs. Pacific MacLeod, 

Am recalling a 

'MacLeod Piping Stories and Traditions and some of PM Donald MacLeod's Bagpipe Music by Scott MacLeod June 2011' 

talk and bagpiping performance I gave in 2011 at the Clan MacLeod Pacific gathering - https://clanmacleodusa.org/pacific.html -  in the SF Bay Area:


Academia.edu
(PDF) MacLeod Piping Stories and Traditions and some of PM Donald MacLeod's Bagpipe Music by Scott MacLeod June 2011



which talk is also here - 

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Kilt rock 

Would be fun to explore this further at another  Clan MacLeod Parliament on the Isle of Skye! 

Was taking stock of my Scottish piping generativity and see the PS.

Greetings to all the MacLeods at Clan MacLeod Parliament on the Isle of Skye.

Hold fast, As Aye, best wishes, 
Scott

Mark, next time we see each other, will you help me edit the MacLeod family parts ~






PS

taking stock of my Scottish piping generativity - 


Scott GK MacLeod 2 Scottish bagpiping albums +

Searched 

Scott GK MacLeod 2 Scottish bagpiping albums "Honey ..." SoundCloud 4 + World University and School Bagpiping wiki schools 





Scott GK MacLeod 



2 Scottish small pipes' bagpiping albums "Honey ..."



Scott GK MacLeod's 


'Honey in the Bag' 

Scottish Small Pipes' Bagpiping
Berkeley, California


AND

'Honey Piobaireachd'

Scottish Small Pipes' Bagpiping album
Berkeley, California 



Scottish Small Piping & Highland Piping on 
Youtube 

eg
'Seamus MacNeill' on the Scottish Small Pipes (from Canyon CA 94516) 





SoundCloud 



4 World University and School Bagpiping wiki schools 





(and beginning Northumbrian and Uilleann Piping wiki schools too) 



All in the WUaS Music School -





Innumerable bagpiping  blog posts


eg 



And blog label 



Wanting to grow further a new genre of piping music 

Piobaireachd Rock and Roll Blues Laments

eg 

Improvising with Piobaireachd melodies 
Playing with the Allman Brothers and Jerry Garcia on 12/31/1973 ...


And in real real time in a realistic virtual earth for music making (think Google Street View with time slider) as music stidio in a WUaS Multimedia Room from our homes 


Are you on Twitter ?


World Pipe Band Championships Glasgow Scotland 9-15 August 2026 #RealisticVirtualEarth, a #RealisticVirtualEarthForPerformance





Academia.edu
(PDF) MacLeod Piping Stories and Traditions and some of PM Donald MacLeod's Bagpipe Music by Scott MacLeod June 2011



Saturday, September 1, 2012

Kilt rock 



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Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd (2022)
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Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune (2020)


Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018,  Academic Press at WUaS)

Order Book #2 Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (2017,  Academic Press at WUaS) 

Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography (2016, Academic Press at World University and School)


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Paul Murton BBC MacLeod history Isle of Skye - on a Clan MacLeod web site

searched on too - 
Paul Murton BBC history of the Hebrides email address Linkedin Twitter



3 videos of MacLeod history

1 
Highland Clans - Episode 3 - MacLeod (1/3)

 
2
Highland Clans - Episode 3 - MacLeod (2/6) 




3
Highland Clans - Episode 3 - MacLeod (3 /3)


from - 
Hugh MacLeod makes appearance in this episode (first time I've 'met' him)


Hugh MacLeod of MacLeod Skye email











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Hi, Jeff, 

Thanks for the invite. I can't seem to get into the Punchbowl invite (seems to be a phishing scheme for password). When and where is your party? Is this a bagpiping party for music-making even potentially? 

I only play the Scottish small pipes with bellows these days (due to an ear condition I developed).

Want to explore playing harmonies / seconds together on the Scottish small pipes, if you have a set? 

Gave lessons to Rees Parker (above) some years ago - and he stsrted traching a class at UC Berkeley when he was a student there.

Was taking stock of my Scottish piping generativity and see the PS (above).

Best wishes,
Scott






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Continuing - 

Dear Hugh (MacLeod of MacLeod, and please forward - info@dunvegancastle.com), Mark and Tammie (all on the Isle of Skye at Dunvegan Castle presently, I think), MacLeod family, All,  


Greetings from Berkeley, California - 

Just blogged about this email thread and more - 



Also, I found too these 3 films about MacLeod history by Paul Murton (on the Clan MacLeod USA web site) very edifying as well - a great way to participate in the Clan MacLeod Parliament 2026 virtually in a sense - 


Paul Murton BBC MacLeod history Isle of Skye - on a Clan MacLeod web site

(searched on too - 
Paul Murton BBC history of the Hebrides email address Linkedin Twitter)



3 videos of MacLeod history

1 
Highland Clans - Episode 3 - MacLeod (1/3)
https://youtu.be/TAe8Kg53mkU

 
2
Highland Clans - Episode 3 - MacLeod (2/6) 



3
Highland Clans - Episode 3 - MacLeod (3 /3)
https://youtu.be/YUCxXR6ZUh0

Hugh MacLeod makes an appearance in this episode (first time I've 'met' him)


Hugh MacLeod of MacLeod Skye email


Found Paul Murton on Twiter too - 

Paul Murton
@PtmurtonG
Another day - another bay!

& here - 


Happy Clan MacLeod Parliament on the Isle of Skye this first week of August 2026,
Scott


PS
There's a budding wiki "MacLeod Society Worldwide" school at free-to-students World University and School (building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages, and like Wikipedia in 348 languages, and planning to develop in all 7159 living languages) - 
'MacLeod Society Worldwide' - 
(and see the Bagpipe Tutorials' wiki school here too for example)
stay tuned ...


PPS
Mark, next time we see each other (eg in Maine or on Skye ...), will you help me edit the MacLeod family parts ~
http://scottmacleod.com/ScottMacLeodFamilyHistory.htm ?


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Society, Information Technology, and the Global University, (forthcoming, Academic Press at World University and School, 2026) 

Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd (2022)
- Poetry! Order Book #5 Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually (2021, Academic Press at WUaS)

Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune (2020)


Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018,  Academic Press at WUaS)

Order Book #2 Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (2017,  Academic Press at WUaS) 

Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography (2016, Academic Press at World University and School)


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planning ~200 countries' WUaS world class universities in their main languages, per the Olympics, for free-to-students' WUaS degrees from home)

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning to be in all 7159 living languages, each as or with wiki schools for open people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning, e.g. from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)

- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,
World University & School (WUaS)  
- USPS US Post Office, PO Box 132, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516

1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity
building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages - 


2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
- wuas_ceo@worlduniversityandschool.org






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