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Title: Another Quiet Sunday
Artist: Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band
Category: Scottish Pipe Band Music
Format: CD

Formed in 1910, this pipe band has been a continual winner of awards and competitions. In 1935 they won the British Championship at their very first appearance. Their record is second to none, and at the time of this recording (1990) they had been 8 times Champion of Champions, 10 time World Champions: 16 times, European Champions, 18 times British Champions - not to mention their many successes at the Scottish Championships. Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band is one of the finest pipe and drum bands in the world, certain to delight and entertain audiences of all ages.

This album features guest appearances by Battlefield Band

CLAN MacLEOD MAGAZINE - a fascinating and well constructed mixture of traditional pipe band playing, solo piping, drumming, with several tracks where the band is joined by Battlefield Band and a Bombard player from Brittany. For lovers of pipe music and lovers of folk music alike, this record has much to offer.

CENCRASTUS - ... to their formidable record in the competition stakes is now added the reputation, under Pipe Major Mathieson, of being one of the innovative new generation bands ... a drum fanfare of uncompromising length and fearsome precision demonstrates exactly why the bands drum corps, under Drum Major Jim Kilpatrick, has taken the world drumming honours so many times.