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EJ: Revel Grove aka the Maryland Renaissance Festival is a perfect place to introduce the pipes and traditional music to a general audience. I’ve always wanted to capture the spirit I saw in my first Faire back in the early ’90s when I played at one that for a while had a healthy budget to hire entertainment. They hired me as a solo and my group Clandestine, going back to 1991. I remember when I saw piping at the Faire for the first time and I thought, “I could do this!” Later in the year I found Lars Sloan who had the piping contract there and told him I wanted to play there with him every one of the seven weekends the following year. He had been having trouble getting other pipers out for every weekend so he took me up on that offer and when we got together to rehearse the next autumn, he proposed the band’s name: Clandestine. The festival had hired hundreds of actors to dress and speak in characters based on historical figures and every evening they came together to dance to the sound of the pipes, hundreds of people in beautiful clothes and dresses and costumes all dancing as their characters. Toward the end of the season they would be dancing in torchlight and the effect was jaw-dropping to me. To this day I try to bring out that spirit in my playing and when the band was hired last year to play an extended run at Revel Grove, 20 years later and thousands of miles distant, I imagined teaching a dance at our closing set. Frances and I got into a bit of a competition to see who could write the most beautiful, dancable tune, and each night of the festival in 2015 we would teach the dance to a crowd of mostly strangers. I call it “A Turn through Revel Grove” because the dance is called An Dro, translating literally as “A Turn” and Revel Grove being such a great environment for having a moment of spontaneous beauty. If that festival hadn’t hired us these tunes wouldn’t exist and we would be a very different band.
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