Julie Fowlis playing Bagpipe - Live

Live at Lüdenscheid, Germany 4th Sept 2009

[@Lucarius1]

she is already fantastic in singing and playing the whistles, but this is amazing. Wow, just great...

[@CODEHORSCHECK]

One of the highlights of the gig in Luedenscheid. Well done.

[@richgouette]

saw her live...just amazing

[@fionaphillips3458]

Own it, girl !

[@allisonespinosagalan7752]

I love her!

[@rskriver]

I was thinking the exact same thing when I saw the link :) She is amazing

[@aaroncohen9896]

Superb

[@Londubh1]

You are correct in saying that the word 'uilleann' means 'elbow' in Irish. They have been called uilleann pipes since about 1903 or thereabouts, before that they were called 'Union pipes', and even before that they were called pastoral pipes.

[@paulpayton8238]

I love her as well Paul Payton Birmingham England lol well done x

[@MacArthurPiper]

@dissonantsonorant The first tune is: The Battle of Waterloo.

[@oliverarden]

@baragentledragon Bagpipes originated in the Middle East a long time ago. The uilleann pipes are derivated from the pastoral pipes (which in turn came from the French baroque musette) and were made at the time in England, Scotland and Ireland ! Since the beginning they have been associated with the protestant anglo-irish, see piper Jackson for instance ! The English just banned the "seditious" tunes !

[@celticdw1983]

Now that's a true Scottish woman

[@baragentledragon]

bagpipes originated in ireland,were banned by king william,made the warriors too passionate and we then got the elbow/uileann pipe,which was only allowed to be played at home,the british took the bagpipes into many battles,and the scots played at culloden!!

[@oliverarden]

@xoowax It's the most likely theory and it is grounded on fact (archeology among others). The Irish pipes have been around for about 200 years and that's for sure, not a long time, and it's very easy to look at the historical facts. They're not Irish, in the sense of Gaelic, but as I said before, a common invention of English, Scottish and Irish pipemakers of the late 1700s (Robert Reid for instance). The warpipes are not very older and they have nothing to do with the union/uilleann pipes.

[@mhicnanolc]

Anyone know the name of the first tune?! I've heard it many times but would love the name. Tapadh-leibh!

[@15footgelatinouscube]

Can anyone tell me the name of this tune she's playing?

[@ekbooth1]

first tune sounds like the "Battle of Waterloo". Not able to really figure out any other tunes due to the clapping and other instruments drowning out the pipes (for a change). The accepted history of the pipes is that they originated in the fertile belt (Early Egypt-Turkish area) and migrated with them, thus different forms of pipes throughout the world. The Romans has pipes, (Nero did not fiddle..he played the pipes while Rome burned) When the Romans spread their empire they brought the pipes with them. Romans left, and the pipes stayed and developed differently for different purposes. In Brittany there are dozens of types of pipes alone. The Great Highland bagpipes was in fact deemed an instrument of war and banned with the tartan and the kilt. (That's why today pipers can get away with not joining the musicians union..haha) Pipers were hanged if caught. The English govt realized the potential to use the Scots as mercenary soldiers and created the Highland Watch which developed into the Black Watch to patrol the highlands freeing up English troops. The modern pipe tunes (marches, slow marches etc..) Only developed when pipes were used by Highland regiments to lead the troops into battle. Most original pipe tunes were kept up with use of the fiddle, and survived the banning. She is talented.

[@cranntara3741]

The first tune is indeed "The Battle of Waterloo" and the second is "Kenny Gillies of Portnalong"

[@christaylor2070]

its also called Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine - but there are other tunes also called that just to be confusing

[@fionamclary7631]

Cool! It's nice to see female pipers; it seems like that's rare.

[@GamingKarbon]

+Fiona McLary I presume you've never visited Scotland? They're everywhere. It's literally an infestation of music

[@whynottalklikeapirat]

Who cares about biology when it's about music ...

[@Londubh1]

It's amazing the nonsence one reads and hears about bagpipes in general. The Irish 'Uilleann' or 'union' pipes, or pastoral pipes, were an 18th cent. development among English, Scottish, and Irish pipemakers, and were probably mostly played by the upper class Anglos in Ireland and elsewhere, the only people with the money and leisure time to devote to the instrument. Let's face it, your average Catholic Gaelic Irish peasant at the time had neither the time or money to devote to anything.

[@oliverarden]

@xoowax The terrifying sound of what ? It is well-known that the translation of Hecateus is a big problem ! Read again please, the only "celtic" towns (he's the first to give the name "Keltoi") Hecateus mentions are Nuerax and Narbonne, in Southern France... Far from the British Isles... Anyway, if you talk about Celts, read that book : Face of Britain, by Robin McKie. The notion of Celts is still a subject of controversy. And at that time you can't talk of pipes as we know them today anyway.

[@LousyPiper]

Who won't?

[@bunionfeet1]

looks lik e right leg has a problem as never stops moving-St Vitus dance perhaps?

[@swelsher]

Julie's awesome! Unfortunately that chanter reed sounds like it's on its last legs.