MIM: Under its banner “Forward with Scotland’s Past", Battlefield Band has been performing on the international scene for four decades, inspired by its members’ rich heritage of Celtic music and fired by the strength of the modern Scottish cultural scene. The band, which pioneered the integration of bagpipes with the fiddle, keyboards, guitar, and voice, mixes the old songs and tunes with new self-penned material, playing them on a unique fusion of ancient and modern instruments including bagpipes, fiddles, guitars, cittern, bass, keyboards, whistles, and bouzouki.
This band has truly become a “gold standard” for measuring Celtic music. Over the years, new members have brought with them new ideas, new music, new instruments, and new attitudes and influences, leading to continued creativity, freshness, and enthusiasm. After forty years, Battlefield Band still leads the way for Scottish music, always involving its ever-widening audience as the band travels the world.
This concert can best be summarized as just fun. The band was engaging and incredible and who doesn’t love a good bagpipe?
I honestly loved the show and nearly everything about it. The musicianship of all four artists was incredible. The Gaelic lyrics, the dueling bagpipes, the interesting melodies were all intriguing. And their Scottish accents and combinations of multiple instruments was truly unique. I would absolutely see this band again; in fact, I would actually pay to see this band again! A great show!
