![]() ‘We are four people who generally like each other. A lone piper playing a lament is quite a haunting sound conversely the sound of a badly trained busker wrestling with a bag of pipes is enough to haunt the memory for years afterwards RE: Favourite Song On The Bagpipes 15071279 BY aa61hvy - Fri 9:44 am Bhaa Bhaa Sheep. ‘This is not some band focused around one person,’ she says. It is varied a lot –not just a wall of bagpipes.’ One reason is the group’s dynamics. Hamel describes Clandestine as having ‘a very lush, full sound. Says Hamel, ‘It was the first festival in the Northeast to take a chance on us four years ago.’ The band’s Web site (calls Bethlehem Clandestine’s ‘home away from home.’ Last July, Clandestine appeared for the first time at Godfrey Daniels and on ‘Acoustic Eclectic,’ a WDIY-FM radio show hosted by Otto Bost. The Celtic Classic, where the band will perform this weekend for the fourth straight year, occupies an honored spot in Clandestine history. There are two pipe bands, an adult and a juvenile one, that have won awards all over the world.’ Here in Australia when you mention songs with bagpipes you have the aforementioned AC/DC and a close second is John Farnhams 'Youre The Voice'. Other KoRn songs that include bagpipes are: Lowrider from Life is Peachy. But, as Hamel points out in an interview from Richmond, Va., ‘Houston has a large bagpipe community. The nu metal band Kon often uses bagpipes in their songs (played by vocalist. It also might seem strange that a Celtic band comes from Houston. ![]() ![]() That wouldn’t seem so unusual, except that Hamel’s band, Houston-based Clandestine, is a Celtic group and the festival in question was last year’s Celtic Classic. Jennifer Hamel remembers the last time her band played at a festival in Bethlehem: ‘There was a mosh pit, and the fire marshal threatened that she would stop the show.’
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