Westray Connections 2017 – The Parade
The Pierowall Village Parade is one of my favourite parts of Westray Connections. There’s something incredibly stirring about the pipes at full blast playing a heart-stirring tune. Add that to a procession through the Village and you have a real occasion:
![Westray Connections Parade - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Westray-Connections-Parade-3.jpg)
The Kirkwall City Pipe Band are always immaculately dressed for the occasion and so regimented in their playing. The intensity of the concentration of their drummers is wonderful to see.
![Westray Connections Parade - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Westray-Connections-Parade-8478.jpg)
![Westray Connections Parade - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Westray-Connections-Parade-8492.jpg)
![Westray Connections Parade - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Westray-Connections-Parade-8498.jpg)
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There was quite a crowd outside the Pierowall Hotel surrounding the Band who were in inward-facing circular formation. I managed to pick a few faces out of the crowd. Some were friendly and some were completely unaware:
![Westray Connections Parade - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Westray-Connections-Parade-.jpg)
![Westray Connections Parade - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Westray-Connections-Parade-7.jpg)
![Westray Connections Parade - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Westray-Connections-Parade-6.jpg)
![Westray Connections Parade - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Westray-Connections-Parade-5.jpg)
![Westray Connections Parade - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Westray-Connections-Parade-4.jpg)
It was a glorious day and The Orcadian reported that “The tar was melting on the Pierowall Road.”
![Westray Connections Parade - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Westray-Connections-Parade-2.jpg)
In Westray it’s not every day that you can say that.
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