EIS – Edinburgh Tattoo (Day 07)

EIS – Edinburgh Tattoo (Day 07)

(8/24/2010 Evening) Tonight is the Military Tattoo at Edinburgh Castle. We arrived at the Tattoo location which is right in front of Edinburgh Castle. Our seats are in the closest section on right side (looking at the castle). They are good seats, but as you’ll see from the pictures, we were looking at the bands mostly from the side.  Now mind you I am holding the camera and taking a long timed exposure so some of the pictures might look blurry.

There are a number of bands and bag pipers from locations around the world, including the US.

The program started with pipers from many of the different bands.

Each individual band then performed, coming in to the parade ground from the castle gates and leaving at the far end around the grandstand. Bands played, marched displaying excellent skills and demonstrated marching patterns on the parade ground.

Some of the bands were small in size, yet still skills.

One performance came from a young group (the youngest 5 years old) of motorcycle performers, called the Imps Motorcycle Display Team, that did crossing maneuvers and a last sequence of jumping a motorcycle over a car.

The US band also had bagpipers in standard tartan dress.

The Citadel band came from Charleston, South Carolina in the United States which presented and inspiring musical display, if I do say so myself.

Other bands played throughout the evening.

During the performances, the castle lighting would change colors or display projected images on the front gates.

There was even a group of dancers that performed some traditional dances during the evening.

All in all the Tattoo was very enjoyable even though the seats were pretty narrow and the air a little cold.

The finale had the entire band members return to the tarmac for a couple more song performances.

With the entertainment completed, Carmen and I moved through the crowd as quickly as we could and returned to the bus where it was warmer.

I know there are a lot of pictures here and not much in the way of descriptions.  (If you need more information, go to Edinburgh_tattoo )


Until later, Bob and Carmen – EIS.