Hi, Thanks (again!) Nigel, the Brest StMark bagad (breton pipe band) has even got a site : http://www.kbsm.net/ Regards Dominique Renaudin http://perso.club-internet.fr/d140557/index.html scots-l-digest a *crit : > > > Would anyone know where this second name (Jig Brest St Marc ) for G > > Larsen Thunderhead comes from? > > Yes. Some Scottish pipers learned the tune from a piper in Brittany, > and assumed it was a local traditional tune, so they called it after a > local town, Brest St Michael. It was taken up by many pipe bands from > there, gathering variations of the names, among them "Jig Brest St > Marc". > > - -- > Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer// Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
