Taking place the current of air from Edinburgh Castle

Stirring music, amazing action, mesmerising comedy and an incomparable atmosphere. This is in abundance at this year’s Edinburgh Tattoo (5-27 August). As ever, staged adjoin the acclaimed backcloth of Edinburgh Castle, the actualization focuses on the affair Of the Sea’ while adulatory key anniversaries and Scotland’s arresting engineering pedigree. The new Tattoo Chief Executive & Producer, Brigadier David Allfrey, takes the eventв helm.

The new Tattoo Chief Executive & Producer said: "I am appreciative and advantaged to be alive with a admirable team, both those based in Edinburgh and experts from added afield. Not alone are we painting on the canvas of the Castle Esplanade but aswell we accept some of the finest capacity in the world. The beloved favourites of the Massed Pipes and Drums, the Massed Bands, a able afterpiece and, of course, the Lone Piper are abutting by acts from beyond the Commonwealth, Europe, the Middle East and South America."

Show-stopping all-embracing attractions lined-up for this summer cover the Brazilian Marine Corps Aggressive Bandage – advancing for their admission at this month Tattoo – and, authoritative what will be their aboriginal appointment to the Scottish capital, The German Mountain Army Band, with their own different estimation of Alphorn music and attention drill.



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Yet this year’s Tattoo opens in amazing actualization with a specially-commissioned alarum - advantaged Salute to the Stands’ – which celebrates the Tattoo new ВЈ16m advanced amphitheatre and will be performed at the alpha of anniversary actualization during the three-week spectacular. The piece, composed by Pete Curtis and Mac McDermott “ who, amidst others, spearhead the Senior Account accord at the 2011 Tattoo - will be premiered afore the Massed Pipes & Drums ample the Esplanade with the blood-tingling complete of the pipes.


A 250-strong aqueduct bandage will beforehand beyond the Castle drawbridge anniversary black arena time-honoured favourites such as The March of the Cameron Men’ and In the Garb of Auld Gaul.
"The pipes represent the actual aspect of Scotland’s civic ancestry and anybody who has anytime apparent and heard them in this bewitched abode will authority the anamnesis forever", remarked David Allfrey.

They comprise the Pipes & Drums of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, 1st Battalion Scots Guards, The Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment, 1st & 2nd Battalion of The Royal Gurkha Rifles and the Royal Air Force. While from overseas, the Crossed Swords Aqueduct Bandage from Germany, who accomplish their aboriginal actualization at this summer’s show, the Royal Caledonian Society of South Australia and, afterwards a 4-year absence, the acknowledgment of the Royal Army of Oman.

Forty of the Netherlands’ finest aggressive musicians with their acclaimed Bicycle Bandage – Fanfarekorps Koninklijke Landmacht Bereden Wapens – beaming in celebrated Apple War 1 aeon compatible are one of the added abnormal elements set to adroitness the Esplanade of Edinburgh Castle this year. They are accepted to play flawlessly while benumbed in categorical aggressive formation. Extraordinary allocation and agreeable accomplishment is appropriate for this different set.

"The all-embracing flavour of the Tattoo works so well," commented the Brigadier "This year, we are able to chase abstract barter apprehension and the ocean currents about the world, showcasing the abilities and ability of our accompany and allies  wherever we blow land."

Also on their aboriginal appointment to the Scottish Basic is South America’s iconic Brazilian Marine Corps Bandage from the celebrated Sao Jose Fortress in Rio de Janeiro. This 90-piece ensemble will accomplish - complete with bagpipes – aggressive displays, ball and folk music fatigued from aboriginal sources beyond the South American subcontinent.

Then, for the aboriginal time in the Tattoo 61-year history the Royal Fleet will present its acclaimed acreage gun affectation on the Castle Esplanade - a time-honoured analysis of concrete exercise and aggregation spirit – now acclimatized for the accurate challenges of an absorbed achievement space. As allotment of the set, men of Acreage Gun teams from about the fleet, will aggregation up with added players to advertise argosy arms over the endure 3 centuries. This act has fatigued acutely on the history of the Royal Fleet and an agitative accord with HMS Unicorn. His Majesty’s Frigate Unicorn, of 46 guns, was congenital for the Royal Fleet in the Royal Dockyard at Chatham and launched in 1824. She is now the world’s endure complete warship from the canicule of sail, one of the six oldest ships in the apple and Scotland alone adumbrative of the sailing navy. HMS Unicorn is anchored on Dundee waterfront.

 A aggressive bandage of the aboriginal Mountain Division - the German Mountain Army Bandage from Bavaria - aswell accomplish their Tattoo debut. The mountain-dwelling musicians clad in acceptable Germanic compatible will acquaint their absorbing and addictive alphorn music to the Esplanade while staging a well-rehearsed log chopping display.

This year the Tattoo’s Highland Dancers will accompany armament with the West Ulster Total Ball Aggregation from the arctic of Ireland. Tattoo Ball Director and above Apple Champion Highland Dancer, Billy Forsyth MBE has devised an agitative display, which embraces the amphibian affair of the 2011 Tattoo to allegorize the challenges faced by alive fishermen braving the elements in seek of nature’s harvest.
Tattoo audiences will again attestant the Bandage of the Royal Netherlands Army Mounted Regiments in activity with a acceptable music affectation and a blow of magic.

Also a part of this year’s attractions will be the Royal Navy piracy convoying achievement as a boarding affair from HMS Montrose yield to the showground to adapt a book from a contempo operation in the Indian Ocean. Their presentation embraces the actual best of avant-garde assembly technology and will serve to absorb and conceivably inform.

This colourful achievement again gives way to the alarming music of the accumulated Bands of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines, who yield centre date in a acute programme committed to the Senior Account and a anniversary of a amphibian themed Tattoo. Calm with their acclaimed attention drummers, the Bands comprise some 140 musicians from HM Royal Marines Plymouth, Portsmouth and Scotland. The musicians are beneath the administration of the Royal Marines Principal Director of Music and the 2011 Tattoo Director of Music, Lieutenant Colonel N J Grace.

The Brazilian Marine Corps Aggressive Band, the German Mountain Army Bandage calm with the Bandage of the Netherlands Mounted Regiments and the Bandage of The Royal Regiment of Scotland again accumulate for the alpha of a active afterpiece - in aggregation with the Massed Pipes & Drums. This able arrangement appearance distinctively abiding music from How to Train Your Dragon’ and employs advanced bump accessories assuming a affluent carpeting of commutual imagery.