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53-465: Red Hot Chilli Pipers is a Celtic rock band from Scotland. Formed in 2002, the band became popular internationally in 2007 after winning the BBC talent show When Will I Be Famous? The band's lineup features three highland bagpipers and traditional marching snare , backed by a five- to seven-piece band. The band's live show also features vocal performances and highland dancing . Since their formation

106-472: A distinctive part of a pan-Celtic movement, early Welsh pop and rock music was more influenced by American and English artists than Irish and Scottish acts. By the end of the 1960s the Welsh rock scene included a number of internationally successful English language groups that included Badfinger , Amen Corner , Elastic Band , Budgie and Man . The Welsh rock scene would change markedly from October 1969, when

159-661: A drama department called the Glasgow College of Dramatic Art during 1950. It became the first British drama school to contain a full, broadcast-specification television studio in 1962. In 1968 the Royal Scottish Academy of Music changed its name to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) and introduced its first degree courses, which were validated by the University of Glasgow . During 1987–88

212-479: A more ' new age ' sound at the beginning of the 1980s. Moving Hearts , formed in 1981 by former Planxty members Christy Moore and Donal Lunny , followed the pattern set by Horslips in combining Irish traditional music with rock, and also added elements of jazz to their sound. There were already strong links between Irish and Scottish music by the 1960s, with Irish bands like the Chieftains touring and outselling

265-529: A shared heritage, but who are widely dispersed. However, perhaps the most significant consequence of Celtic rock has simply been as a general spur to immense musical and cultural creativity. Celtic rock has also influenced musicians from countries and regions without Celtic communities, with some of them, like the Balkans , spawning their own Celtic rock scenes, which contributed to the interest for Celtic music and culture in local public. The pioneers of Celtic rock on

318-658: A trapped nerve, physiotherapy and botox injections into his arm to relax the muscles. In efforts to help him play the bagpipes, he had McCallum Bagpipes manufacture him a custom chanter that uses flute keys to cover the holes instead of requiring the player to cover them. However, he was still unable to play them and left the band. A recent World Pipe Band Championship winner with the Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band, Kyle Warren, replaced him. [REDACTED] Media related to Red Hot Chilli Pipers at Wikimedia Commons Celtic rock The style of music

371-565: Is Thanateros from Germany. Whereas in England folk rock, after initial mainstream recognition, subsided into the status of a sub-cultural soundtrack, in many Celtic communities and nations it has remained at the forefront of musical production. The initial wave of Celtic rock in Ireland, although ultimately feeding into Anglo-American dominated progressive rock and hard rock provided a basis for Irish bands that would enjoy international success, including

424-667: Is American pianist and composer Jeffrey Sharkey. The patron is King Charles III . The Royal Conservatoire has occupied its current purpose-built building on Renfrew Street in Glasgow since 1988. Its roots lie in several organisations. Officially founded in 1847 by Moses Provan as part of the Glasgow Athenaeum, from an earlier Educational Association grouping, music and arts were provided alongside courses in commercial skills, literature, languages, sciences and mathematics. Courses were open and affordable, including day classes for ladies, and

477-522: Is Brian McCombe (born Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom) of The Brian McCombe Band, a pan Celtic group based in Brittany. In other Celtic communities, and particularly where Celtic speakers or descendants are a minority, the function of Celtic rock has been less to create mainstream success, than to bolster cultural identity. A consequence of this has been the reinforcement of pan-Celtic culture and of particular national or regional identities between those with

530-592: Is particularly noticeable in the US and Canada, where there are large communities descended from Irish and Scottish immigrants. From the United States this includes the Irish bands Flogging Molly , The Tossers , Dropkick Murphys , The Young Dubliners, LeperKhanz, Black 47 , The Killdares , The Drovers and Jackdaw , and for Scottish bands Prydein , Seven Nations and Flatfoot 56 . From Canada are bands like The Mahones , Enter

583-539: Is the hybrid of traditional Irish , Scottish Gaelic , Welsh and Breton musical forms with rock music. This has been achieved by the playing of traditional music, particularly ballads , jigs and reels with rock instrumentation; by the addition of traditional Celtic instruments, including the Celtic harp , tin whistle , uilleann pipes (or Irish Bagpipes), fiddle , bodhrán , accordion , concertina , melodeon , and bagpipes (highland) to conventional rock formats; by

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636-611: The Glasgow Athenaeum School of Music . In 1893 additional premises linked through to Buchanan Street and included a new Athenaeum Theatre facing Buchanan Street designed by architect Sir John James Burnet . In 1928 the premises were substantially extended with a gift from the philanthropist Daniel Macaulay Stevenson . In 1929 the school was renamed as the Scottish National Academy of Music to better reflect its scope and purpose. This major acquisition of space at

689-596: The Hebridean Celtic Festival in Stornoway . With a total of four degrees from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland , many of the band members past & present have competed at the highest level of bagpiping and drumming for many years. Founder and former Musical Director Cassells received BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician in 2005 and became the first person to attain a degree in bagpipes from

742-558: The Isle of Man , which were also relatively small in population and more integrated into English culture and (in the case of Cornwall) the British State. As a result, there was relatively little impact from the initial wave of folk electrification in the 1970s. However, the pan-Celtic movement, with its musical and cultural festivals helped foster some reflections in Cornwall where a few bands from

795-554: The Pogues and U2 : one making use of the tradition of Celtic music in a new context and the other eschewing it for a distinctive but mainstream sound. Similar circumstances can be seen in Scotland albeit with a delay in time while Celtic rock culture developed, before bands like Runrig could achieve international recognition. Widely acknowledged as one of the outstanding voices in Celtic/rock

848-629: The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Formerly the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama). The snare drummer and percussionist, Grant Cassidy is an 8 time Juvenile Solo World Drumming Champion and in 2016 placed 7th in the adult section of the World Solo Drumming Championships held in Glasgow, Scotland. On 23 September 2011, founder and frontman Stuart Cassells, left the band. Prior to leaving, Cassells had been struggling with ' focal hand dystonia' , more commonly known as writer's cramp since 2008. Speaking to The Daily Record on

901-513: The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama ( Scottish Gaelic : Acadamaidh Rìoghail Ciùil is Dràma na h-Alba ) is a conservatoire of dance, drama, music, production, and film in Glasgow , Scotland . It is a member of the Federation of Drama Schools . Founded in 1847, it has become the busiest performing arts venue in Scotland with over 500 public performances each year. The current principal

954-568: The Sain record label released its first single. Founded as a label for both rock and folk musicians in the Welsh-language , and home to artists such as Dafydd Iwan , Meic Stevens and Ar Log , Sain would become Wales' biggest record label. With Sains success as both a folk and rock label, more and more folk musicians transitioned into rock music in the early 1970s, meaning that traditional Celtic element within Welsh folk music now became evident within

1007-656: The University of St Andrews . RCS is one of four member conservatories of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music . From 1 September 2011, the RSAMD deferred to its full title The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. The name has deep roots and the change was confirmed after a long consultation process that involved the principal John Wallace and the academy's board of directors, as well as past and present students and staff, arts & academic institutions, politicians, and

1060-491: The Yugoslav rock scene were the pub / garage rock band Roze Poze in the mid-1980s. In the 1990s, bands like Orthodox Celts from Serbia and Belfast Food from Croatia popularized Celtic rock further, influencing a number of younger acts, like Irish Stew of Sindidun . Royal Conservatoire of Scotland The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland ( Scottish Gaelic : Acadamh-chiùil Rìoghail na h-Alba ), formerly

1113-588: The 1960s was exemplified by Alan Stivell who became the leading proponent of the Breton harp and other instruments from about 1960, he then adopted elements of Irish, Welsh and Scottish traditional music in an attempt to create a pan-Celtic folk music, which had considerable impact elsewhere, particularly in Wales and Cornwall. From 1972 he began to play folk rock with a band including guitarists Dan Ar Braz and Gabriel Yacoub . Yacoub went on to form Malicorne in 1974 one of

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1166-644: The 1980s onwards utilised the traditions of Cornish music with rock, including Moondragon and its successor Lordryk. More recently the bands Sacred Turf, Skwardya and Krena, have been performing in the Cornish language . Ireland proved particularly fertile ground for punk bands in the mid-1970s, including Stiff Little Fingers , The Undertones , The Radiators From Space , The Boomtown Rats and The Virgin Prunes . Scotland also produced its fair share with acts including The Skids and The Rezillos . As with folk rock in England,

1219-723: The Athenaeum had a reading room, news room, library and social facilities. Apprentices could also be members. Rented accommodation was found in the Assembly Rooms, Ingram Street, with major lectures taking place in the City Halls . The chairman at its inaugural Grand Soiree in the City Halls in December 1847 was Charles Dickens when in his opening remarks he stated that he regarded the Glasgow Athenaeum as "an educational example and encouragement to

1272-540: The Celtic Diaspora was the existence of large communities across the world that looked for their cultural roots and identity to their origins in the Celtic nations. While it seems young musicians from these communities usually chose between their folk culture and mainstream forms of music such as rock or pop, after the advent of Celtic punk relatively large numbers of bands began to emerge styling themselves as Celtic rock. This

1325-705: The Haggis , Great Big Sea , The Real Mckenzies and Spirit of the West . These groups were naturally influenced by American forms of music, some containing members with no Celtic ancestry and commonly singing in English. A band in England is the BibleCode Sundays . Like Celtic rock in the 1970s, Celtic metal resulted from the application of a development in English music, when in the 1990s thrash metal band Skyclad added violins, and with them jigs and folk voicings, to their music on

1378-622: The Main Stage at T in the Park in 2004 where they performed alongside The Darkness, and in 2014 when they performed on the Main Stage again in their own right. In 2007, the Red Hot Chilli Pipers appeared on the BBC show When Will I be Famous? hosted by Graham Norton . The band were in the episode and competed against seven others. The eight contestants were paired into a head-to-head showdown in which

1431-757: The Masses went platinum in Scotland and silver in the rest of the UK. Their third album and first live album, Blast Live (2008), went triple platinum in Scotland. Their fourth release Music for the Kilted Generation , The Red Hot Chilli Pipers' most successful International record to date, reached Number 2 on the US Amazon Chart. behind Adele 's record-breaking album, 21 . Breathe was released in July 2013 on CD and iTunes . The group's highest profile performance's have been on

1484-498: The Red Hot Chilli Pipers have combined guitars , keyboards , drums and their bagpipes to create 'bagrock' sound. The Red Hot Chilli Pipers perform a fusion of traditional pipe tunes and contemporary pieces. Notable covers performed have included " We Will Rock You " by Queen , " Clocks " by Coldplay and " Smoke on the Water " by Deep Purple as well as " Chasing Cars " by Snow Patrol , " Don't Stop Believing " by Journey . In 2004,

1537-534: The Royal Protocol Unit. The principal said the change was necessary as it was no longer simply a music and drama academy. Undergraduate courses in areas such as Digital Film & Television, Production Arts and Design, Production Technology and Management, Musical Theatre and Modern Ballet (in partnership with Scottish Ballet ) have been added to the degrees the Royal Conservatoire offers. He felt it

1590-607: The academy moved to its present site some two hundred yards north in Renfrew Street at Hope Street, across from the Theatre Royal, the new building having been designed by architect Sir Leslie Martin with executive architects William Nimmo and Partners. In 1993 RSAMD became the first conservatoire in the United Kingdom to be granted its own degree-awarding powers. Research degrees undertaken at RCS are validated and awarded by

1643-525: The advent of punk and other musical trends undermined the folk element of Celtic rock, but in the early 1980s London based Irish band The Pogues created the subgenre Celtic punk by combining structural elements of folk music with a punk attitude and delivery. The Pogues' style of punked-up Irish music spawned and influenced a number of Celtic punk bands, including fellow London-Irish band Neck , Nyah Fearties from Scotland, Australia 's Roaring Jack and Norway 's Greenland Whalefishers . One by-product of

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1696-470: The album The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth (1990). This inspired the Dublin based band Cruachan to mix traditional Irish music with black metal and to create the subgenre of Celtic metal. They were soon followed by bands such as Primordial and Waylander . Like Celtic punk, Celtic metal replicates the fusing of Celtic folk tradition with contemporary forms of music. A well-known representative of this style

1749-445: The burgeoning Welsh language rock scene. Acts such as Edward H. Dafis caused a sensation by "going electric" and using rock instrumentation. This new Welsh language rock scene was also associated with Welsh nationalism , political activism and the campaign for the Welsh language. by the 1980s Celtic rock had firmly transitioned into the mainstream, and was now at the centre of Welsh language culture. With acts such as Ar Log touring

1802-493: The corner of St George's Place (later renamed Nelson Mandela Place) and Buchanan Street was the Liberal Club (now not required by that party), designed originally by architect Alexander Skirving and remodelled by architects Campbell Douglas and Paterson in 1907. Its principal from 1929 to 1941 was William Gillies Whittaker . In 1944, it became the Royal Scottish Academy of Music. The Royal Scottish Academy of Music established

1855-530: The era is marked by the success of Wales' international Rock acts such as the Manic Street Preachers , Stereophonics , Super Furry Animals and Catatonia . However, current Welsh rock acts such as Calan and Bwncath continue to find success within the Celtic rock genre. Whereas other Celtic nations already had existing folk music cultures before the end of the 1960s this was less true in Cornwall and

1908-400: The first Irish group to have the terms 'Celtic rock' applied to them, and produced work that included traditional Irish/Celtic music and instrumentation, Celtic themes and imagery, and concept albums based on Irish mythology in a way that entered the territory of progressive rock all powered by a hard rock sound. Horslips are considered important in the history of Irish rock as they were

1961-540: The first commercially successful album with the all Gaelic Play Gaelic in 1978. From the 1980s Capercaillie combined Scottish folk music, electric instruments and haunting vocals to considerable success. Scottish Band The Waterboys became a well known Celtic Rock band during the 80s with the release of albums such as This Is The Sea and Fisherman's Blues . They also incorporated folk elements into their music. One of Scotland's most commercially successful and fondly-remembered rock acts, Big Country , also incorporated

2014-474: The first major band to enjoy success without having to leave their native country and can be seen as providing a template for Celtic rock in Ireland and elsewhere. These developments ran in parallel with the burgeoning folk revival in Ireland that included groups such as Planxty and the Bothy Band . It was from this tradition that Clannad , whose first album was released in 1973, adopted electric instruments and

2067-548: The group appeared on the main stage at T in the Park with the headline band, the rock group The Darkness . They appeared on BBC Radio 1 on the Greg James show in July 2013 and The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw in 2014. The group appears on the soundtrack of How to Train Your Dragon 2 . The band's first studio release The Red Hot Chilli Pipers (2005), was their least successful. Their 2007 album Bagrock to

2120-567: The head-to-head 51–50 and went on to win the weekly prize of ten thousand pounds. In September 2008, the group performed a Scottish-flavoured medley of songs during the opening of Eurovision Dance Contest 2008 in Glasgow. In 2010, The Red Hot Chilli Pipers completed an 11-date sold-out tour of Scotland , as well as an 11-week tour of Germany and a 7-week tour of America . They also toured Saudi Arabia , Malaysia , India and most of Europe. They performed concerts in New York and Beijing as well as at

2173-466: The influence of traditional Scottish music into their songs. While bagpipes had become an essential element in Scottish folk bands they were much rarer in folk rock outfits, but were successfully integrated into their sound by Wolfstone from 1989, who focused on a combination of highland music and rock. The region of Brittany also made a major contribution to Celtic rock. The Breton cultural revival of

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2226-498: The most successful folk rock bands in France. After an extensive career that included a stint playing as part of Fairport Convention in 1976, Ar Braz formed the pan-Celtic band Heritage des Celtes , who managed to achieve mainstream success in France in the 1990s. Probably the best known and most enduring folk rock band in France were Tri Yann formed in 1971 and still recording and performing today. While Welsh folk music developed as

2279-439: The musical form in different but related contexts. It was in Ireland that Celtic rock was first clearly evident as musicians attempted to apply the use of traditional and electric music to their own cultural context. By the end of the 1960s Ireland already had perhaps the most flourishing folk music tradition and a growing blues and pop scene, which provided a basis for Irish rock . Perhaps the most successful product of this scene

2332-554: The native artists in Scotland. The adoption of folk rock produced groups including the JSD Band and Spencer's Feat. Out of the wreckage of the latter in 1974, was formed probably the most successful band in this genre, combining Irish and Scottish personnel to form Five Hand Reel . Two of the most successful groups of the 1980s emerged from the dance band circuit in Scotland. From 1978, when they began to release original albums, Runrig produced highly polished Scottish folk rock, including

2385-597: The rest of Scotland". Its Dramatic Club was formed in 1886 a year before the institution moved to purpose-built premises, inclusive of a major concert hall/theatre, in St George's Place close to West Nile Street, designed by architect John Burnet . In 1888, the commercial teaching separated to form the Athenaeum Commercial College , which, after several rebrandings and a merger, became the University of Strathclyde in 1964. The non-commercial teaching side became

2438-491: The subject, Cassells said, "My left hand refused to stay on the chanter. It was like my left hand wasn't my own, it wouldn't stay still, like someone else was controlling it. I knew in my head how I wanted to play but I couldn't because my hands would curl right up and tense up and move involuntarily. They weren't doing what they were supposed to do. The brain was sending far too many signals to my hands." He tried various treatments throughout this period, including surgery to release

2491-514: The traditional techniques of Welsh formal poetry. Jarman would later be credited by the musician Gruff Rhys with "severing ties with Celtic folk and serving as a bridge to a new wave of post punk ". The Welsh scene became divided between more traditional music and the new punk-folk bands such as Bob Delyn a'r Ebillion . While the 1990s saw the creation of the Fflach :tradd label and an increase in recognisably Celtic rock acts such as The Bluehorses ,

2544-447: The use of lyrics in Celtic languages and by the use of traditional rhythms and cadences in otherwise conventional rock music. Just as the validity of the term Celtic in general and as a musical label is disputed, the term Celtic rock cannot be taken to mean there was a unified Celtic musical culture between the Celtic nations . However, the term has remained useful as a means of describing the spread, adaptation and further development of

2597-415: The winner would be decided by 101 preregistered viewers who were dubbed the "Armchair Judges". The four winners of these head-to-heads would then compete against each other in the second show with the winner being decided by an open public phone vote. In their first head-to-head showdown, The Red Hot Chilli Pipers were pitted against the "Stringfever", a four-member string quartet. The Red Hot Chilli Pipers won

2650-436: The world for Performing Arts Education. The Whittaker Library is housed in the Renfrew Street campus. It contains one of the largest collections of sheet music, scripts and other performing items in both the United Kingdom and the world. In 2010, RCS opened its second campus near Cowcaddens , now known as the "Wallace Studios at Speirs Locks". This building was designed by Malcolm Fraser . It opened predominantly to house

2703-467: The world with new renditions of "traditional Welsh folk music, haunting love songs, harp airs, melodic dance tunes and rousing sea shanties". Dafydd Iwan's 1983 song Yma o Hyd would become his biggest cross-over success. The late 1970s and 1980s also saw a backlash against Celtic rock. With many Welsh language acts such as Sains own Geraint Jarman finding success using more contemporary and global musical forms (such as reggae ) with lyrics conforming to

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2756-474: Was best to choose a name that was representative of all disciplines offered. The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland has been consistently ranked among the best schools in the world in Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) 's Performing Arts ranking since the latter was established in 2016. The Conservatoire has been in the top 10 five out of six years, reaching 3rd place in 2017 and 2021. In 2022, RCS ranked fifth in

2809-573: Was the band Thin Lizzy . Formed in 1969 their first two albums were recognisably influenced by traditional Irish music and their first hit single " Whisky in the Jar " in 1972, was a rock version of a traditional Irish song. From this point they began to move towards the hard rock that allowed them to gain a series of hit singles and albums, but retained some occasional elements of Celtic rock on later albums such as Jailbreak (1976). Formed in 1970, Horslips were

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