2024 NYC St. Patrick's Day Parade Part 4 | NBC New York

The 2024 NYC St. Patrick's Day Parade is the 263rd edition of the beloved, famed parade up Fifth Avenue. NBC New York is proud to be the official, exclusive broadcast partner of the parade.
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[@sunny2shoes]

Really enjoy it..Was blown away with the crowds..Love from CO Kildare.Ireland.xx

[@BoricuaButterFly]

Beautiful Patrick Day Parade. Blessing them

[@Mncrr]

Perfect day for a parade

[@greencoffee8224]

🇺🇸☘️☘️🇺🇸☘️🇺🇸☘️🇺🇸

[@MikhaelYacobMalechNisan5742]

Call for peace and unity vote for Kennedy Jr
Do this in the name and spirit of us Irish
He is the correct man at the correct time

[@pcmaclin]

This would really sadden St Patrick, none of this has anything to do with him.

[@samkangal8428]

Free Ireland 🇮🇪

[@ivanoday4635]

Pipe bands in the Gaelic Tradition (Ireland, Scotland, the US, Canada, etc.) wear Scottish-looking garb when they march. Not because they’re Scottish, but because that’s how pipe bands dress. That's the tradition. Theoretically, piping runs back to the Irish mists, the Tuatha De Danaans, the Red Branch, but the pipers we see on our streets now are part of a tradition no older than 1902. The Highland Pipes are war pipes. But there were no warrior Gaelic clans left in Ireland after 1691, (that’s right, all the murdering done afterwards was to farmers, fishermen, cattlemen, and shop keepers), and none in Scotland after Culloden (1746). The only piping anyone heard after that was if the British Army came tramping up your street. And that would only have been after 1854 when pipers attached to British regiments were first recognized by the War Office. What we see now is a hybrid: Irish, Scottish, and British. Particularly the clothes! Scottish tartans always referred to a specific place, or clan, or entity, which is still the case, but now you have to be registered with some ministry in London or Edinburgh. The Irish, by contrast, never wore kilts, or tartans, and while they’ve adopted them in modern times for parades, they have their own registry in Dublin. The plain orange kilts (or saffron kilts) worn by the Irish Defense Forces and a few other Irish pipe bands are meant to put a question to rest - them or us? - while harkening back to Ireland’s legendary Gaelic past; but they do the opposite in my view. They’re as confounding as they are dull. Scotland is the Holy Land of piping now. That’s why kilts! Scots created the piobaireachd - the pipers’ encyclopedic hit parade! They have the best outreach, the best schools, a majority of the top competition bands, most of the best pipers, and nearly all the best pipe makers, plus all the main piping societies. But naturally, there’s controversy here too. The Scottish tradition is really a mixture of Irish traditional tunes and musical forms (jigs, reels, airs, marches, and hornpipes), with Scottish strathspeys, harp, fiddle, and pipe tunes from the Hebrides and beyond, and British military drumming, uniforms, presentation styles, and fanfare added in. Some critics say the British contributions are not welcome because they dilute and distort what would otherwise be a pristine indigenous art form. But without these “colonial” vestiges - bearskin hats, gauntlet cuffs, chevrons, epaulettes, military drills - how would piping even be fun? Ironically, it’s the British Army that whipped all this together by working sub-rosa in 1902 with a select group of scholars professing to know every last thing about piping (except where it comes from) for the purpose of building an unshakable foundation for piping in its Scottish homeland - a military unit clearly underrated as a hotbed of frivolity, subversion, and mischief. Johnny Walker spats? Drum corps? Baldricks? Who would have thought? And while this last bit about the army is generally kept quiet, it needn’t be. It’s staring us right in the face! Gaels in glengarry caps and scarlet tunics holding Scottish ground against imperialists from the south? Not bloody likely! But it doesn’t matter. Water under the bridge. The Irish “war pipes,” the “great pipes” of the sea-faring Gaels and their fearsome highland progeny, pìob mhòr in the old language, Highland Pipes in the new. Meaning, I think, the old antipathies have finally begun to cool. Things change. The center doesn’t hold. And it’s looking like it’s all for the better pretty much. So we don’t know if the first pipes were Irish or Scottish - (Irish) - but not knowing gives everyone a leg up and a side in the fight. The Uilleann Pipes, which featured so prominently in “Braveheart,” and which are Irish, aren’t used in marching bands at all. They’re played sitting down with the drones laid across your lap and a chanter spanning two octaves, where the Highland pipes have a range of just seven notes. In the world of Highland piping today, Glasgow is Mecca. The snowy City on a Hill. The place where God descends every August, rain or shine, to preside over the World’s. And God is merciless, say the Calvinists (who have pretty good reasons to think so). The Irish have their own traditions too, of course, especially in the States, with Emerald Societies on every corner, fire brigades, military contingents, weddings, memorials, parades, funerals, festivals, graduations, sporting events, competitions… the University of Chicago is one of 60 American colleges with pipe bands and tartans registered overseas. Carnegie Mellon’s another. And of course Notre Dame. Statistically, there are more "Irish" pipers in the world than "Scottish” - (see if Scopes doesn’t agree)- and a growing number around the planet who are neither. But when it comes to the piping canon, the how-tos and whys, the Callies have the first and last word.

[@brucecollins641]

@ivanotoday4635.......strange how everything in ireland is lost in the mists of time. 3 drone bag pipes are scottish, kilts are scottish, whisky is scottish, ceilidths are scottish, ceilidth music is scottish, irish stepdance scottish, fiddle reel music scottish( there are 100s of scottish fidddle reel tunes in ireland). whisky scottish in origin, guinness english in origin. macs/mcs and o prefixes all adopted by irish nationalist in the 1800s to distance themselves from their anglo--norman roots. maybe you could post some links verifying your claims.

[@ivanoday4635]

@@brucecollins641 You're going to have to get that tooth pulled, Bruce, it's affecting your thinking

[@brucecollins641]

@@ivanoday4635 lol...jist post some links.

[@brucecollins641]

@ivanoday4635....since you seem to be struggling, here's some on kilts...type in......irish kilts; the ultimate guide to everything you need to know.....then..irish kilt history your-kilt.......

[@brucecollins641]

@@ivanoday4635 the earliest bagpipes in ireland are from the 1750s. the uilienn pipes originally called the union pipes (the fraudulent irish historian gratton flood changed it to uilienn to give them more of an irish authenticity) were actually adaptations of the northumbrian pastoral pipes and the scottish smallpipes...