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Drone Magic

The CD!

The Fourth Annual 

"Drone Magic"

San Francisco International Bagpipe Festival 

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On December 10, 2005, the Croatian American Cultural Center hosted the Fourth Annual "Drone Magic: San Francisco International Bagpipe Festival". Organizers, "Living The Tradition" presented no less than 16 pipers representing the music of nine different cultures to a standing-room only audience for a nearly three-hour Pipers Extravaganza. 

This year's Festival was especially exciting when many of the pipers performed with dancers and other musicians, giving the audience a first class musical and visual treat. The Festival also included a brief but remarkable video clip of a gypsy woman in Romania singing a bagpipe imitation, one of the very many she has preserved of her piper father's music. In addition, the audience had the opportunity to view an exhibition of traditional instruments - including many different types of bagpipes, and to purchase traditional (and delicious!) Hungarian Goulash and pastries.  

Enjoy some of our memories of the festival through some photographs of the evening.

Pietro Torrano

Italian "Zampogna"

Conall O'Raghalliagh

Irish "Uillean Pipes"

Georgi Kabaivanov

With Milen Varimezov

Bulgarian "Gaida"

Mark Walstrom

Swedish “Säckpipa”

Lynne Miller

Scottish ”Highland Pipes"

Alan Keith

French "Musettes"

Ferenc Tobak

Hungarian "Duda"

Banda de Gaitas

Spanish "Gaita"

Bruce Maxwell

Scottish "Smallpipes"

Directed by Ferenc Tobak & Mary Wallace Tobak

"Living The Tradition"

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