St Patrick's Day Parade in New York City 2009 **Revisit the Best Year**

About 8 minutes from the 2009 NYC St Patrick's Day Parade.
Order of appearances:
Ancient Order of Hiberians, Orange Country, NY ;
Coppell High School, TX ;
Bagad de St. Nazaire, Brittany, France -- Bretagne ;
Helsinke Pipe Band from Finland ;
FDNY Emerald Society Pipe Band Color Guard

[@ESB30R]

Many thanks for posting this; and many thanks to Coppell for coming to NY. We watched you from the Cathedral steps and you absolutely filled the street with music. Loudest applause I have heard for a band in my more than sixty years of St Patrick's Day Parades. Please come again.

[@rmd2753]

hey thanks so much for posting this!!! i play trumpet at coppell and marched this parade and it is really, REALLY cool to see this... brings back absolutely amazing memories!

[@ESB30R]

Many thanks for letting me know of the award. I'm not surprised. Well earned. Congratulations. See you next year, D.V.

[@imjusthyperr]

dude, I was in the parade! I was one of the cymbals in the Coppell band. :) Thanks for putting this up!

[@jeffhusky92]

I was in the middle of the French horn section Coppell HS Band. Sure brings back memories, thanks :D

[@SteelDrumming]

Good job Coppell, starting at 1:44. Needed more cymbals! :)

[@Satsumabeurre]

Going to this this year!!!

[@ThatKidIan4]

And the ones in black and white are descended of the Bretons which are from Brittany, France who are also a Celtic peoples. So you are correct, quite a few of them AREN'T Irish, but ALL of then are Celtic.

[@chilled91]

@thatRubberDuck the scottish mainly play them but its a celtic thing actually an Ireland has a celtic history

[@DingChavez959]

@thatRubberDuck Bagpipes are not Scottish, they are mainly associated with Scotland but there are many variants of Bagpipes all over the world and Ireland has its own Bagpipes too called uilleann pipes. But all of that is irrelevant because there are loads of instruments there that are not Irish. Its not a parade about Irish instruments.

[@CelticGlazik]

The bagadoù are present ! ;-)

[@ps3man76]

IRELAND IRELAND IRELAND!!!

[@e0o9kii]

@Destineerable Who are Picts?

[@jackd166]

I hope everyone voted sinn fein last night :)

[@kayleighcutieexx]

ah love been irish

[@SeanQuinn-IrishMarxist]

@nitecourse1 Mostly everthing Scottish was Irish first. I recomend you study the celts. I'm Irish, I live there

[@rmd2753]

oh and yeah, we did 2005

[@goodgirlkay]

@alatriste078 If you really want to get technical Mexicans, i.e. Native Americans are actually Asians....who crossed the Bering Strait during the last ice age from Siberia into the Americas, so....Everybody comes from somewhere else, take a good look at Native Americans then look at South East Asians, even the Japanese, and you see an obvious connection. And most Mexicans have some mixture of European blood anyway, particularly Spanish, my point is history cannot be undone, no point wallowing.

[@gkhadz]

Go Ireland!

[@broadcastworlds]

Fantastic to be Irish, but never bother going to my local parade, fill with children and drunken idiots. That happen couple of years ago, in Belfast is the most craziest place to be on paddys day, I'll tell you that for a fact.

[@tigerarmyrule]

@kermithehomo When you say "all Irish" you don't include me or almost all my family and friends who regard Americans as welcome and are friendly to them.

[@e0o9kii]

@AngloSaxon1921 Most white Americans are of Irish and German descent.

[@e0o9kii]

In NY we celebrate the Irish but in Ireland the Irish actually hate us Americans. It's sad come to think of it.

[@peacelovegod100]

Saint Patrick's Day is not about leprechauns and the color green and drinking and pretending to be Irish, etc. It's about the man - SAINT PATRICK. Patrick was a Catholic Christian missionary and Bishop in Ireland who converted all [or most] of Ireland to Christianity [namely the Catholic Church]. The true meaning of Saint Patrick's Day is celebration of Saint Patrick and his life. March 17th, the day he died, is when we remember him. That is the TRUE meaning of Saint Patrick's Day!

[@cassius969]

I think the guy on the left got confused and picked up an Italian flag :p. INTRUDER ALERT !

[@nitecourse1]

eh sorry but all those traditional outfits in the march etc are scottish NOT Irish, completely different culture. What's up with that???

[@broadcastworlds]

I've lived in Ireland all my life, there are people who live in Ireland you idiot.

[@BINOMIALBOB1]

26 bankrupt counties, Germany's bitch.BANANA REPUBLICLOL LOL.

[@QAZRUS]

"irish jews" hah

[@segano1]

ROLF! Scottish bagpipe music in a Plastic Paddie Yank video, they look like fuckin retards lol.

[@superboy1393]

@thecrusades2 your problen is that you gay!

[@cookieeclipse]

Damn waterford parade is crap

[@CelticGlazik]

The bagadoù are present ! ;-)