Flowers of the Forest (Dark Isle Bagpiper)
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Flowers of the Forest
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History:
This tune was written as a lament for Scots that were killed at the Battle of Flodden in 1513. Although the original words are unknown, the melody was recorded in c. 1615-25 in the John Skene of Hay
yards Manuscript as "Flowres of the Forrest." Song of the Isles.
Dark Isle Piper Remarks:
This moment playing the Bagpipes in Glencoe was extraordinary. The Sun rays were dancing and giving the sense of joy and peace where there was once great tragedy. The way the pipes mournfully echoed in this Glen had a sense of remembrance. In memory of the terrible tragedy that occurred in this Glen back in 1692 on February 13th in the early morning hours between the MacDonald and Campbell Clans. I felt it was the perfect tune for the moment. Remembering the Fallen MacDonald Chief, 33 Men, 2 Women and 2 children.
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Production:
Bagpipes by Tress Maksimuk
Recorded at Weathertop Studio
Filmed by Nick Maksimuk (iPhone video)
Filmed on location in Glencoe Scotland
Edit by Tress Maksimuk
This tune captures my soul and I am so happy that it has captured yours too. 💗 I wanted to thank you all for your comments and support. I read each and every one! Sharing this music and opening up my world to you has changed my life! Music speaks all languages and carry’s the heart of the musician to those who listen. Thank you for listening and sharing your hearts with me.
Sláinte,
Tress
Dark Isle Piper
the Dark Island was played at my fathers funeral. Thomas Carroll, welove and miss him
Love your music!Love Scotland!Thank you for sharing with us!
Oh this is just wonderful! ♥️
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Merveilleux tout simplement, merci ! From France
They shall grow not old as we who are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemned. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them
Lawrence we will always remember and honor them.❤️
The moment we forget them the sacrifice s they made will be in vain.
Proud to be a jock
Lest We forget!
Thanks bro I am ex army and this still makes me cry
I played this beautiful tune at my father’s graveside. I struggled to finish it, I was fighting hard to control my grief with a lump in my throat.
My bagpipes were played at the Somme by an Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders piper and I would like to play this tune there. It’s on my bucket list.
I agree with your comments. This tune is an "industrial strength tear jerker"..!!
Your pipes hold such powerful history. They will one day sing in the glen my friend. Thank you for sharing your dream.
Jazz... that's a heavy hitting post you've written, it's been a long time since I've read anything quite that touching.
Please go to the Somme, fella, get there whatever you do and play. There's many a good laddie of ours still laying in the ground there, and they're worth playing for...
and I hope your dear old dad is resting well.
My warmest regards to you.
cuhurun
Thankyou so much for your kind words. Before I go, I’ll be taking my pipes to the college of piping in Glasgow, to have someone get them in tip top playing order with easy reeds because I’ve not got the puff I once had. They are R.G.Laurie’s made around 1900 and sound superb when tuned. They deserve the very best I can do in their memory.
@@jazzman1626 I'm just amazed you have pipes played that long ago, and during such a time and place as the Somme battlefield... it's just staggering !
I do my best to get a tune out of an old (but not as old as your pipes) chanter my grandad gave me, but have never had the lung capacity to really play, let alone get a set of pipes humming. Reckon I'll forever have to rest in the knowledge there are always good pipers out there whose skills I can sit back and enjoy. Also, makes me a bit sad to think the Argyles and Southerns were disbanded back around 2006, makes those pipes of yours even more precious.
I really do hope you make it to France and play. Perhaps oneday, when you return you might add a message to this thread, just to let us folks know. Perhaps even better, if you could video the event and post it here on youtube, that would really be a sight to behold.
Cheers !
In loving memory of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on the first anniversary of her passing.
There is not a single other musical instrument that can convey mournful and uplifting at the same time. If bagpipes don't bring a tear to your eyes there is something dreadfully wrong with you. I am a 5th generation Scot. My great, great grandfather coming here from Scotland around 1820 or so. Scot roots run deep.
Dear Dark Isle Piper, you have performed this most sublime piece so movingly and wonderfully.
My dear wife, Kathleen, a Scot, sadly passed away last year on St. Andrew's Day, 30th November, after several months of acute illness. We were married for 27 years and lived in Lancashire, England but it was always Kathleen's wish to return again to dwell in Scotland. I'm sad that I couldn't make that happen in her lifetime, but on her passing I had her repatriated for her funeral and burial in Alexandria, Dunbartonshire. I organised a piper to play a lament for her as I and my brothers in law carried her coffin into the family parish church, having chosen Flowers of The Forest after looking for a suitable piece while searching You Tube. It is here that I discovered your channel and your wonderful performance in such a fabulous setting. It has been nearly three months since Kathleen passed, but in that time I have listened to your piece over and over again, as I do your others. It reminds me of her identity as a Scot and I celebrate her in my memory of her even though I mourn. Hearing this played often brings me floods of tears but it brings me comfort to know that Kathleen rests in her beloved homeland in Scotland as she would have wished. Thank you so much ❤❤❤
She's come home ❤🏴
Thanking everyone for their kind thoughts xxx
🙏
Beautiful story and life of 2 people. The pipes are calling and when they do I cant help but be moved
Best ever flower of the forest I have ever heard. Beautiful.
Years ago was in South Padre Island off Texas coast. Evening came....suddenly thought I heard bagpipes. Ran down two flights...around the dunes,,,,and there on the shore next to the waves stood a bagpiper in full uniform, facing Scotland direction. He played several songs as the sun was setting. Between the pipes, the seagulls, the ocean.....closest thing to heaven on earth I've seen. Thank you for your video!
My sweet father was born in Edinburgh, we paid a bagpiper and it's as if he could see into my heart, this was the song I wanted to hear and this was the song he led the service with. I can't help but listen to this song with tears in my heart, and a heart full of joy. For having such a wonderful loving father. I miss you so much dad. I hope your soul is forever blowing with the heather and the thistles up in the highlands. Scotland will always hold such a special place in my heart.
the beauty of this tune makes my eyes water, well done!
Dan Thompson it’s definitely a tune that tugs at the heartstrings. Thank you for listening and following my channel❤️
How wonderful, the woman piper; for surely the lament was for women folk, who lost their menfolk on dreadful battlefields. Aye, the flowers are all ween away.
Sons and daughters of Scotland are spread all around the world. Ulster-Scots, American Scots, Australian and Canadian. So many others. There are not as many as you'd think, but we're out here and some of us haven't forgotten our roots.
My grandfather, Archibald Macneill came from the Hebrides to the states. I moved back to Europe. Not to my "blood's motherland" but I'm close to her, at least. And your music brings me closer and closer..
Some day, I'll make the pilgrimage to Colonsay and Barra for a visit. And upon those northern shores, I'll have your music in my ears. I'll look upon that land in awe of it's beauty, enamored by it and upon my knees knowing that this was where it all started with this blood.
Bless you, sister. Thank you for sharing your talents with the world.
-A Scot in Karelia.
Absolutely amazing thank you for sharing when you hear the bagpipes it makes me so proud to be Scottish
Everything so beautiful the scenery, the music,and the lassie .
From an Englishman in Spain ,Thank you
Thank you!❤️
Beautiful!! Love to hear the bagpipes!! Also beautiful are these mountains, so unique looking, And let’s not leave out the flaming auburn hair!!
So proud of my Scottish heritage and roots. From Clan MacKenzie 🏴
Motto: I Shine Not Burn
The Seaforth motto is Cuidich 'n Righ; Luceo non uro belongs to the Earls of Cromartie, who only became chiefs of the clan in modern times. Help the KIng!
Absolutely stunning!! Instant goosebumps. Thank you for such beautiful music.
So beautiful and sad at the same time. Love bagpipes.❤😊
Diana Dobson
Hi Diana
The video wasnt long enough. I had to repeat a couple times. I'm so glad Manitoba has a good Scottish heritage (my own though being Mennonite ＆ Ukrainian) thanks to Lord Selkirk, that my family is often blessed with hearing beautiful pipes
Beautiful music surrounded by beautiful scenery performed by one with a beautiful soul. Bravo!
I never really appreciated the pipes until now. Beautiful countryside and a pretty piper with a lot of heart. This moved me.
I’m not sure what just happened. This song invoked feelings. Almost sad, but uplifting? Not sure, but I wanted to fly over those hills...
Jar Mason it definitely carries the soul beyond❤️
SUPER !! Echte traditionelle Musik. Romantisch, ich liebe den Dudelsack
I listen to your play sitting on the riverside watching the wild waters tumble down. My darling Mouse loved the wildness of the water and your playing brings her face back to me, with tears streaming down my face. I am now a broken old man without her sparkle of life but your playing with bring the tears to all in remembrance of all lost
I thank you
Im coming home one day....
I am a Gordon by my great grand and grand Fathers who came to the USA from Aberdeenshire.
I knew not what this was until I read the comments.
I was moved deeply , as the pipes stir me anyway.
Thank You for this.!
Born in Scotland but living in Canada. When my wife passed away our neighbour, whio is a classical violinist (and also English) learned the tune and played it at the burial. The piper does agreat rendition.
💚 this tune 😊🎶 lover of bagpiper
The pipes connect us to our heritage. The drones are the breath of the earth and the chanter the voice of the piper. No better place than nature to realize that we are all connected.
I haven’t got much time left with my Da . Lifetime struggles but lifetime love . . Stay gold piper . You touch me and my fathers soul .xx 🏴
As I stood watching the Saint Patrick's Day parade in New York's 5th ave some years ago, my tears began to mist me eyes as a bagpipe ensemble marched by......I was born in Puerto Rico but when i hear the melody of bagpipes my heart is filled with melancholy and joy all at once.
You might have Celtic roots. It's worth a look. Only kidding.
The bagpipes are an emotive instrument, played, here by am emotive culture. God bless the Scots,
Lest we forget! RIP to all the brave souls that did not make it back home from war. The Sacrifice the soldiers made will never be forgotten. My respect to all the veterans who served.
Thankyou So Much for sharing your music!!!! The bagpipes just touch my soul!!!! As I sit out on my front deck looking at the beautiful mountains that surround our tiny tile town at the base of the Sierra Nevadas , even though it is still smoky ( first day I've been able to sit on my desk in weeks ) your music has moved me to tears as I gaze upon the beauty that I am blessed to be able to look at , and the beautiful sound of you playing this lovely piece ❤ Your bagpiping skills are Superb , and it is such a joy to listen to you play !!! Thankyou again 💓
What a dream ! I left the earth during a few minutes !! A pure moment of happiness and relaxing .. I would just walk in this landscape ........ And ear you playing bagpipe 😉
This tune is so beautifullll.... It brought tears to my eyes... somehow it evoked a past life memory, where i had a beautiful family and a happy life there.... God Bless you Dark Isle Bagpiper
Sending you love.🙏🏻💗
@@DarkIsleBagpiper thanks... Just to let you know i'm indian in south east asia... This tune has touch my heart in such a deep place... Truly music is language of soul, ans beyond languages.
Just something about your videos just true piping from the heart and soul and though the mountains /hills and the glens the sound travels and keeps the memories of our ancestors alive .I'm Shure they appreciate you like we do thank you 👍👏👏👏🏴🥃
This music highlights the Scottish generations of past and present,.. it's about peace and prosperity ....
Beautiful and Talented. My father's mother was Irish and would be happy.
This video and music take me back to such a special moment in our lives. ❤️
😍❤️ Lets do it again!❤️
Dark Isle Bagpiper okay. 2021 🤞🏻
From south Texas, Hispanic, no words, my heart brakes! ❤️
Was a Scott???? Den why do I cry whenever I listen bagpipe
Sight and sound - breathtaking. Thank you for sharing your gift.
You play the bagpipes so wonderfully well breathtakingly gorgeous
Nací en España, pero tengo espíritu celta y el sonido de la gaita... me llega hasta lo más profundo de mi ser. Gracias, gracias por estar interpretaciones con un instrumento tan lleno de historia como la gaita.
I love Scotland and the music of bagpiper.. U played awesome
Its ridiculous how many times i have played this.❤
I haven't cried in forever, but I feel like this has finally done it. When the first tone began, I had goosebumps all over my body and at the end of it (which came way too quickly for my taste), I was crying like a baby. Felt like a stone was lifted off my shoulders. God bless the people of Scotland and Europe!
Oh how sweet is this life, how sad we have to go, go we must. X
I'm proud of the service time I shared with first battalion the Gordon highlanders as an English man I can only say the pipes reach into your sound you don't hear them you feel them .just beautiful.
Alas.such music could play in the serene mountains of Malakand.very excellent.
I've lived in England since I was 4, I'm now 53. My heart and soul will always belong to Scotland.
Welsh myself. Proud to call a Scotsman, and Englishman my countryman.
Todo un placer escuchar esta música.Gracias.Un saludo desde México.
Bag pipes and drums is amazing
Beautiful, very emotional
Hola. Esta música conmueve muchísimo. En todos los idiomas y culturas. Muy bello!!
Beautiful beyond words
Beautiful song and Scotland 💓😍love from Japan.
I always love to hear the pipes played.Im 83% Irish and scottish .I never even knew I had any scottish until I had one of those DNA tests done.I am an American
This is the song we play when we pay tribute to our fallen comrades at Veterans memorial services.
Such a beautiful song.
Not a dry eye around.
Except us in uniform.
We will always remember them.
Absolutely chills down the spine.
So beautiful, thank you.
So beautiful, Tress! Much aloha from Hawaii...
Oh, there was no "love it" button. Felt my heart leap and for just a brief moment my soul was called home to thee.
For the bonny and the brave stand tall. Cx beautiful.
Magnifique j'adore👍🙏💋❤️
l❤️ve Scotland for ever , and your people ( songs 🎼 🏴 🇲🇫 together ❤️)
If anyone can go to Flodden and hear this played, tears to a glass eye
The Music of God The Most High in Heaven! He Loves Us So Very Much!
Good on you lass love your song keep going take care
I am Kiwi, my name is Allen, my Grandma was Goog. I don't know my Clan or heritage. But I love pipes, and drums, particularlybbthe babd ofvthe Black Watch. Owen.
I first heard this wonderful piece of music, in the Film: "The three lives of Thomasina" - in this case, it was for the funeral of a cat!
Then heard at least twice during our queen's funeral. Great.
for me, this is synonymous with the Last Post and ANZAC DAY - Thank you so much for putting this up
~an aspiring bugler
🙏🏻💕
Thank you.
This is amazing , directly from the heart to the soul ❤
My grandad passed n I want to learn this song to remember him by he may not have been a war hero but he faught the dementia till he could no longer
Qui som maravilhoso!emocionante!
Beautiful lass!👍🏻❤️
Loved song
The RMS Mauretania sends her regards, as she went to the breakers for scrap with a piper playing this tune to see her off as lament.
I first heard this versión of Flowers on Ash Wednesday. Remember man that thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return.
rest in peace queen Elizabeth
Love and respect. Keep up the Good/Hard work
Música primitiva pero muy agradable
Gracias
Another awesome video!
Lovely!
Love this
I can feel her soul shine upon my face. Ran into this video per chance, fucking awesome
Perfect perfect beautiful 😉
Know Love Be the Land. Kudos.
LOVE IT!
Superb.
I cried ❤☆❤
MY GRANMOTHER WAS BORN IN THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND
1893
wow i am so glad i found your channel. thank you.
The Flowers of the Forest
Lyrics by Jean Elliot (1727-1805)
I’ve heard the lilting, at the yowe-milking,
Lasses a-lilting before dawn o’ day;
But now they are moaning on ilka green loaning;
“The Flowers of the Forest are a’ wede away”.
As buchts, in the morning, nae blythe lads are scorning;
The lasses are lonely and dowie and wae.
Nae daffin’, nae gabbin’, but sighing and sobbing,
Ilk ane lifts her leglen, and hies her away.
In hairst, at the shearing, nae youths now are jeering,
The Bandsters are lyart, and runkled and grey.
At fair or at preaching, nae wooing, nae fleeching,
The Flowers of the Forest are a’ wede away.
At e’en, in the gloaming, nae swankies are roaming,
‘Bout stacks wi’ the lasses at bogle to play.
But ilk ane sits drearie, lamenting her dearie,
The Flowers of the Forest are a’ wede away.
Dule and wae for the order sent our lads to the Border;
The English, for ance, by guile wan the day:
The Flowers of the Forest, that foucht aye the foremost,
The prime o’ our land are cauld in the clay.
We’ll hae nae mair lilting, at the yowe-milking,
Women and bairns are dowie and wae.
Sighing and moaning, on ilka green loaning,
The Flowers of the forest are all wede away.
I come back only to weep again, because this reminds me that I am human. This music enables you to actually see down through the corridor of time, to see beautiful things, and very painful things too. It's not something that can easily be put into words, or described in language. It's utterly moving, and it tears you gently apart.
Wow, beautifully said!!
@@polytheneprentiss1534 Thank you. The bagpipe is one of my favorite instruments of all time. For me, musically speaking, it is the voice of Scotland.
@@malcolmlagares8245 the bag pipes didn't originate there. They came from North Africa.
@@supersurfer1 Just had to, didn't you, dickhead.
@@supersurfer1 I don't think that matters... they make it there own
In all the world there is no instrument like the bagpipes. They send chills down my back and touches me in a way that I can't explain. I think there is some kind of magic going on in them.
I agree… it calls to the soul!
*Rebel Blood.*
🗡❤🏴
It's the drone note
Try wringing pipe tunes through an electric guitar if you're already a guitarist.
It's in your blood son. You are a wild creature, a beast
My wife Kristen Desiree Lapiezo passed away last night after being in a coma for 7 months. If I ever need to feel her presence. I listen to this song. She was 37.
May this tune carry both your souls to heaven … to be together again …
May she rest in peace friend.
Thoughts be with you 🙏🏻
May this tune help you remember what she meant to you and the world
I plan to have this played at my Mums funeral in the next few days,I'm overwhelmed by grief just listening to this,and thats before the final farewell takes place...such a beautiful haunting lament 😢💔
I hope that this tune brought you healing🙏🏻💗 I’m so sorry for your loss.
We played this at mums funeral,so many tears and so much pride,we are scots
🏴❤🗡
My sister has just passed I will play this to ..I'm so sorry for ur loss
As a Scots military veteran, Flowers of the forest the piper’s lament is our last post. Never fails to break my heart every time I hear it.
Anytime I ask a Scot to help me, he or she does. They know what is like to be crushed by a powerful enemy just like I do as a native American. This is a tear jerker
Im a Kiowa Indian, USA, yet i understand!
I know what your saying brother...thanks for your service 🏴🤜🏻🤛🏻🤙🏻
@@maxelldenomie6131hear you my brother. Love from a brother of teton hunkpapa from fort peck montana.
One of the most beautiful and moving pieces to honour a fallen member of the military. It hits your soul to the core. Thank you for this beautiful rendition!