Happy Women’s Day – Wszystkiego najlepszego z okazji międzynarodowego dnia kobiet!
Kraków Celtic Festival is marking International Women’s Day with this tune, “Krakowianki,” specially composed and performed by Lindsay Davidson on the Scottish smallpipes, sometimes known as the ‘wee pipes’.
Lindsay added, “In the bagpipe world, it is traditional to compose a piece of music to commemorate a person, a place, or a moment in history. In such a way we create a rich universe of memories stored in tunes,
The historical reality is that women are under-represented in the body of pipe tunes that have been composed. This little tune is one of many small steps to rectify this.”
On International Women’s Day, the Kraków Celtic Festival team offer this small tune to highlight Kraków’s notable women, we will be composing more.
Lindsay Davidson -‘Teach Yourself Bagpipes
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Music: “Krakowianki” composed & performed by Lindsay Davidson
Video clips from “The Western Isles (1941, CC BY-NC 3.0)”
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David fell in love with Kraków 25 years ago, making it his home in 2011.
In 2020 he was awarded the title of Kraków’s Ambassador of Multiculturalism, by the President of Kraków, and is also a member of the GlobalScot network, representing Scottish culture and business abroad.
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