Celebrate Robbie Burns with old Drum Corps records and stuff from a Scottish-Canadian farm house

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In 2021, my family sold Highland Park Farm. There was a 100 years of Scottish-Canadian history and interesting antiques, including some very tiny Robbie Burns collections.

In this video I play Drum Corps music from my dad's collection:

1. The Sounds Of Canada, Drum and Bugle Corps. Toronto Ambassadors; Guelph Royalaires; Toronto Optimists; De La Salle - Toronto.

2. An Evening with the Corps at Carnegie Hall. Hawthorne Caballeros and The Skyliners.

3. Canadian Nationals at Seagrum Stadium in Waterloo, 1961. Toronto Ambassadors and Niagara Militaries.

My dad first started playing Pipe band, which is very common in Canada's police and military forces. The Canadian military artifacts of my grandfather's on the piano have lots of Scottish symbolism as well, like the dirk, and the pins which display the name Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada.

After playing pipe band in the air cadets and then the military during high school, my dad later played in Drum in Bugle Corps., including the famous Preston Scout House. Bugle Corps. still relies on highland drumming, so the Scottish connection is not lost.

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