For Argyll

Poland’s Czestochowa Pipe Band is exciting in a lot of ways. It’s the only one in the country. It has no state funding and supports itself entirely by its own efforts, buying pipes, drums and kilts in Glasgow and in Canada - where the inspiration for the band began.

The Mid Argyll Pipe Band, Scotland’s oldest, has built a special relationship with the Czestochowa and has enjoyed its hospitality in Poland. This return visit, the band’s first to Scotland, celebrates the Mid Argyll Pipe Band’s 80th Anniversary year. The band stayed in Kilmartin Village and played a series of joint concerts indoors and outdoors with the Mid Argyll band, from Lochgilphead, to Ford, Inveraray and Oban.

They were interviewed for this programme by musician and composer, John Saich, alongside representatives of Argyll and Bute Council, hosts of a reception at Kilmory Castle for the band. The energetic welcome the band received across Argyll during their visit has left them glad to be going home for a rest.

Czestochowa Pipe Band