13th July Royal Black Institution (Full Parade 4K) ~ Portadown ~ 13/07/21

[@fredmcclean3870]

Brilliant

[@onlyfourhomenations]

Keep it up lads

[@Wrtp.]

Magic.🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍

[@iansoutryer3189]

So I take it: fife bands, silver bands, accordion bands, pipe bands and Lambegh drums are typical of Loyalist band culture. But where can they be heard? I recently watched videos shot in the Ulster countryside with several silver bands, another with pipe bands and yet another with several Lambegh drums. And yet in Belfast e.g. only fife bands, no silver bands and no Lambegh drums. Is there a geographical difference, which type of band is more prominent?

[@tjclarke1892]

Lambegs tend to be a more rural thing so would accordion and silver they'd tend to be generations of the same family. Also Belfast 12th july parade route is too long for basically anything but flute bands

[@adrianwalker2833]

@@tjclarke1892 Yes, it seems playing Lambegh drums is quite a tradition in Co. Antrim and Co. Armagh, unique to Northern Ireland, with their thundering sound. Another uniquely Northern Irish feature are the accordion bands - at least I've never seen them anywhere else. My personal favourite is "Aughrim Rose of Derry", as they play a number of the bigger accordions. (I am 'Ian Soutryer' - just could not remember, for the life of me, my password recently 😟).

[@tjclarke1892]

@Adrian Walker yes Aughrim Rose of Derry are mainly piano accordion. Button accordions usually don't sound just as good, CO Armagh and antrim lambegs also have their differences, In armagh its played alone and as fast as humanly possible but in antrim its played with a traditional fife jig

[@adrianwalker2833]

@@tjclarke1892: You seem to be quite an expert on loyalist music! Thanks!