The Road to the Isles

This year saw a lifelong ambition of the band fulfilled with a glorious weekend performing in the Hebridean metropolis of Stornoway at the 2009 Homecoming Hebridean Tattoo. The weather and the people treated us well as we got kilted up and did our bit alongside the many pipe bands from the islands and even Canada in the grounds of the imposing Lews castle. The following day we paraded through the streets balanced precariously on the back of an artic with the crowds smiling and throwing coins... which is apparently a good thing up there!! The black pudding was flowing, seals obligingly played in the harbour, the standing stones at Callenish sparkled in the sunlight and Uig Sands, the biggest beach any of us had ever seen, exposed it's full golden expanse out to the Atlantic. Half the band then went home the long way, through all the islands down to Barra and then to Oban. SambaYaBamba is obsessed with islands as it is but this was certainly a wonderful experience and we dearly hope to be invited back next year.

 

SambaYaBamba in Stornoway, Lewis 2009
 

 

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Bill Stewart
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Tattoo Hebrides 2009
Reply #1 on : Wed August 19, 2009, 19:56:07
Absolutely loved your infectious rhythms, couldn't stop my kilted hips swaying. Desperate to join in with your drumming- I know you don't run workshops this far north, so hope you can return next year- samba on!!