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Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2000


Opening

Lament from the Castle
The Highland Cradle Song

Opening Fanfare

Opening Fanfare
Salute to the Commonwealth

Directed by
Lieutenant Colonel R A Waterer, OnE, MMus, LRAM
Principal Director of Music, Royal Marines
and 2000 Tattoo Director of Music

The Massed Pipes and Drums

Directed by Major Gavin N M Stoddart MBE BEM RHF Director of Army Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming

»The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
»1st Battalion Scots Guards
»1st Battalion The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
»1st Battalion The Royal Highland Fusiliers
»1st Battalion The Black Watch
»1st Battalion The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)
»1st Battalion the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)
»2nd Battalion the Royal Gurkha Rifles
»The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
»The Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa
»5th/6th Battalion The Royal Victoria Regiment
»The Cape Town Highlanders
»The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's)
»The Calgary Highlanders
»The Wellington, West Coast and Taranaki Regiment
Ngati Rangiewewhi Maori Group from Rotorua

A spectacular exhibition of the Kapa Haka of Te Arawa, represented by the Aoetearoa Traditional Maori Performing Arts Society, and Creative New Zealand's Te Waka Toi.

»Ngati Rangiewewhi Maori Group from Rotorua
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Intricate precision drill routines with traditional Mounted Police Lances from the world-famous Canadian Mounties

»The Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The Tattoo Highland Dancers

The Tattoo Dance Company present a unique display of Highland Dancing accompanied by musicians from the Highland Band of the Scottish Division

»Tattoo Highland Dancers
121 Battalion South African Infantry Zulu Dance Team

Spectacular ceremonial dancing, singing and chanting, set to pulsating African drum rhythms.

»121 Battalion South African Infantry Zulu Dance Team
Band of The South Australia Police, South Australian Calisthenic Precision Team and Anarungga Aboriginal Dance Company

An Australian celebration of all that's best in antipodean music, marching, tradition and dance

»Band of The South Australia Police
»South Australian Calisthenic Precision Team
»Anarungga Aboriginal Dance Company
Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force Steel Orchestra

The acclaimed West Indian Steel Band with their award-winning Caribbean calypso music.

»Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force Steel Orchestra
The Massed Military Bands

A stirring display of music and marching.

The Massed Military Bands and Massed Pipes & Drums
A distinctive blend of pipes, drums, band and choir
creating the unique Tattoo sound

Lass of Fyvie
Star of Robbie Burns
Land of Light - sung by Gaelic artiste Main MacInnes

»The Band of HM Royal Marines Scotland
»Band of the Scots Guards
»The Highland Band of the Scottish Division
»The Lowland Band of the Scottish Division
»The Tattoo Choir (Kevock Choir)
»Band of The South Australia Police
»Mairi MacInnes
Finale

Celebration of the Commonwealth
The grand finale

National Anthem
Auld Lang Syne
Evening Hymn and Sunset - At the Close of the Day
Lone Piper - Sleep Dearie Sleep

»1st Battalion the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)
»flag bearers from Scotland's Army Cadet Force
March Out

Scotland The Brave
We're No Awa' to Bide Awa
The Black Bear

The 2000 Tattoo Finale