The traditional and spectacular Edinburgh Military
Tattoo will be in Melbourne this week for the first time in its 65-year-history
and residents of and Sunbury and Gisborne will be performing there. Chris and
Janet Bouwmeester of Gisborne and Sunbury’s Ian Thorn and Don MacLean are all
members of the City of Melbourne Highland Pipe Band which is among a diverse
group of 1200 performers at the show. Mr Bouwmeester who is with the band for
more than 30 years including a decade as president, he was excited to be
performing in the five-show season of three-days at Etihad Stadium.
He said it is
really going to be bigger and more spectacular than in Edinburgh because of the
size of the venue but it has so much tradition as an event that it is really a
once in a lifetime type achievement. The dance and performance has made tattoo
more modren additional to the military marches the tattoo is famous for. Similarly
Mr Bouwmeester said the band was feeling Melbourne a more modern.
He added while piping and drumming is still the
nature of the group but you do not need to be an old Scottish soldier to become
a member because we have people of Chinese, European and Vietnamese descents
these days. Mr Bouwmeester is now a snare drummer and his wife is a tenor
drummer while Mr MacLean and Mr Thorn are both pipers. The Edinburgh Military
Tattoo is at 7pm on Friday and at 1pm and 7pm on Saturday-Sunday.
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