Edinburgh Military Tattoo ‘one of the greatest popular event on earth’

The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo has been proved that it’s a something more than hit or big after attracting ever biggest crowd in show which was recently staged in New Zealand and Australia. Brigadier Allfrey, the Tattoo’s producers told to the local press that the event’s tickets had been sold in Australia and New Zealand which were recorded more than boy band One Direction who had previous record of most selling tickets. He further said that Edinburgh Tattoo much tickets than Barbara Streisand or One Direction which looks not normal or looks extraordinary and these were the great rock n roll reliability or wasn’t these ? More than 50,000 thousand foreign countries’ visitors seemed for the Edinburgh Military Tattoo event this year. The historic and considered most ancient Scottish event or show helps to bring more than £7 million to the local economy, comes complete with its own castle and 1,300 performers.

Every year in Edinburgh Tattoo, there performances included; the traditional Celtic massed pipes and drums, military bands, Highland dancers as well as cultural and military performers from around the world and many more interesting performances. Brigadier Allfrey said that the Edinburgh Tattoo was started in the late 40s by Lord Provost in Edinburgh to motivate and entertain the people of Edinburgh after the hardships of Second World War and this is what they are doing, inspiring and entertaining people. Accommodations in Edinburgh and in surrounding areas wherever the event is took place; stretched due to the popularity of show and visitors or audiences and fans. Last year, organizers of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo said that they were spreading the event around and tried to make it most popular which will have global profile and attracts some new international acts or performers in Edinburgh. The most popular event is going to travel first time in Arabian Gulf countries and in China within upcoming five years. Cross over 14 billion people has been joined the Edinburgh military Tattoo since it was first held in Edinburgh Castle public walk and more than 217,000 tickets sold out for the event since last 17 years back-to-back.

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Edinburgh’s 12 Festivals to entertain fans in Scotland

Last nine months of the year will be full of festivals season in Scotland and it will be started on Saturday with the Science festival which will be also family-friendly. Many of you people heard about the Edinburgh festival which always kicked off on every August. Actually there are five festivals takes place in which the Fringe, the Edinburgh International Festival, a Book Festival, a World MusicWeekender and the Military Tattoo included. But it is not end here, there is also world’s biggest children’s theater festival organized in the Scotland’s capital at the end of May and also included a Jazz festival. There are the all whole list where you all see that when the festival season will start.

On 26^th March, Saturday Edinburgh International Science Festival will kicked off which will be the world’s first and Europe’s largest science festival. This festival will continue to two weeks especially for all the families during all the holidays of Easter where youngsters will get a chance to try surgery using real endoscopes in the workshop as well as will also get a chance to build a planet using Lego model of Mars as motivation and chance to see a real-life astronaut.

Imaginate Festival will be start from 28^th May to 5^th June, the festival where children of all ages will perform according to their suitable acts. It is also known as the greatest children’s theater from UK and around the World. Stories of Scotland’s history, Tales of Grandson, Swedish based story Little Gentleman and time-traveling adventure included in that year’s festival.

Edinburgh International Film Festival will kicked off from 15^th June to 26^th June and it will be the 70^th world’s longest continually film festival. Films of the festival will be announced on the start of May.

The Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival will be start from 15^th July to 24^th July. In this festival, the music is coordinated with some great venues including a 17^th century church turned hip jazz club, a Spiegeltent with magic mirrors and the luxurious Festival Theater.

Edinburgh Art Festival will be kicked off from 28^th July to 28^th August. This festival is the UK’s largest visual art festival where capital’s leading galleries, museums and artist-run spaces, together with new public art commissions and emerging artists seems. The interesting thing is the festival is that the most of the part of festival is free.

Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo will be kicked off from 5^th August to 27^th August. It considered the greatest show on the Earth and most of the attractive thanks goes to Edinburgh Castle for the background of that festival where massed military pipes and drums and massed military bands performs from all around the world. This year’s festival is for tribute the Queen’s 90^th Birthday. In this Festival Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh international Festival, Edinburgh International Book Festival and Edinburgh Mela included.

Scottish international Storytelling Festival will be start from 21^st October to 30^th October. In that festival stories is not made for just only for kids or children but also stories included inspired from Ceilidh tradition. This festival together the international and Scottish storytellers and musicians as well as continue to 10 day celebration of live storytelling.

Edinburgh’s Hogmanay will be start from 30^th December to 1^st January 2017. Edinburgh’s celebrations of New Year are the World’s famous festivals. In this festival tens of thousands citizens walk with torch lights through the city.

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History of Military Band in the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo

A military band is a set of people that carry out melodious sense of duty for military functions usually for the armed forces. A characteristic military band contains commonly of wind and percussion instruments. The performer of a band usually endures the title of Bandmaster or Director of Music. Ottoman military bands are supposed to be the ancient variety of military parading band in the world and still go steady from the 13^th century. The military band should have talent of carry out performance in royal and parading music, as well as the national anthems and nationalistic songs of not only their ownnation but others as well, both while standing and as a parading band. There are dual types of historic backgrounds in military band. The first is military playing field music. That type of music consists of bugles such as natural trumpets or natural horns, bagpipes or in other words fifes and drums. It was used to control or direction the troops on the combat ground and also for entertainment.

After the growth of instruments like keyed trumpet and brass instrument, a second culture of the brass and woodwind military band was formed. After to that far head old-fashioned times and the creation of first bands, the United Kingdom have a strong military band culture. The Royal Artillery Band is the oldest band of British military band. The Band can hint its beginning in 1557 at the Battle of St. Quentin, while officially it was consider a Band in 1762. A sequences of army reviews which was started in 1994 compact the quantity of British Army military bands from 69 to 22 bands. Entire regular army bands of British Army are part of the Corps of Army Music and there are currently 22 Bands in service. In these bands, there are different range of personnel which lied Between 64 to 15 and include Old-fashioned Parading, On horseback and Concert bands, along with rock bands and a small string orchestra.

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Do you know about first non-military band which joins Edinburgh Tattoo

Top Secret Drum Corps is a accuracy drum corps which based in Basel, Switzerland. Top Secret Drum Corps is the first ever non-military band which performed in the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo in 2003 and after their first successful performance of their six minute routine with 25 drummers and color guard members; Edinburgh Tattoo were invited that band in 2006 with some improved and new routines and then they were invited in 2009, 2012 and again in 2015. The first performance of Top Secret Drum Corps in Edinburgh Military Tattoo made them famous. Top Secret Drum Corps is the first non-military, non-British Commonwealth performers who have been performed in the public walk at Edinburgh Castle. Erik Julliard was the leader of the band and due the Top Secret Drum Corps band Basel Tattoo found just like similar to Edinburgh Tattoo but it held annually in Basel only.

Top Secret band has their unique Drumming style. They have roots in the ironic drumming traditions of the band’s home city which is located in Basel, Switzerland which is identified for its annual carnival that called Fasnacht. The amazing thing of that city is that it has over 3,000 active drummers any time. These drummers show their talent in traditional events like Fasnacht, the Vogel Gryff and Charivari. These drummers also performed in some parades related with the city’s guild. Basel drumming is actually derived from military drumming drills of Swiss soldiers of middle ages. Top Secret follows by the military nature of Basel drumming in many ways but much different in many respects. Top Secrets Drum Corps members belongs to loyal college students with different day jobs, bankers, civil servants and factory workers etc. they devoted their extra time to practice nearly every day of the year and due to different nature of work, its membership changes frequently.

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Performers participated in Edinburgh Military Tattoo from start to now

Throughout many years many International Military bands and even African bands had been performed at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo. The Royal Netherlands Grenadiers band was the first regiment who join the Edinburgh Military Tattoo in 1952 and up to now more than 30 countries represented at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo from approximately all the continents. The Swiss Top Secret Drum Corps who known well popular performers also participated at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo in 2000, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015 and this band was the first non-military drum corps who participated in it. The King Guard of theNorwegian Army’s band and drum has also been performed at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo on forgoing eight occasions ever since 1961 and they also adopted a penguin, Nils Olav as their good luck charm in 1972 at Edinburgh Zoo. From some past years, cultural and traditional dances and items has also been counted in Edinburgh military Tattoo from different countries.

The best part of every Tattoo continues with the massed pipes and drums on the other hand, provided by the British Army and go to see civilian and military pipes and drums around the world. Every evening arranges with the traditional massed pipes and drums trooping to join the massed military bands and after it, it is followed by National Anthem and Auld Lang Syne before hand down flag ceremony with sounding the Last Post. In 2005, there was seemed the second largest gathering of pipes and drums bands on parade which were the 13 in the numbers in which the pipes and drums of all six steady infantry teams of the Scottish Division and it was the last when all six bands participated at the Edinburgh military Tattoo.

These were the six bands:

·         Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)

·         Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)

·         King's Own Scottish Borderers

·         Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)

·         The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)

·         Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) 

In accumulation, there were also the pipes and drums of the Scots Guards, Irish Guards, Royal Gurkha Rifles, Scottish Officers Training Corps, South African Irish Regiment, the Rats of Tobruk, the City of Wellington pipe band and The Scots College Pipes and Drums band, participated. The largest ever gathering of massed pipes and drums was on 50th anniversary of Edinburgh Military Tattoo in 2000 when there were 15 bands participating on parade, including 7 of the eight Scottish regiments. During the period of the Tattoo, the performers are provide somewhere to stay at the city's Redford Cavalry Barracks, with the parade square used for rehearsals.

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