Friday, December 07, 2007

Omani Highlander

An Omani bagpipe player visiting Sharjah's Heritage Festival in The UAE. The music had us all swaying from side to side and the crowd was dancing for a good hour or two.

3 comments:

  1. I must confess that it wasn't until I lived in Dubai that I came to know that the bagpipes were instruments not only played in Scotland!

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  2. lol really? Even in india and pakistan they are part of military shows and weddings :)

    And did you know...sweden has its very own kind of bagpipe....its very very small and sounds amazing. I need to find some good old swedish folk music to put up on the blog.

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  3. Oh yeah - I knew about the Indian and Pakistan military playing bagpipes, but I just thought that this was part of the British Raj legacy!

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