{"id":2879,"date":"2024-03-20T14:41:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T14:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wichitacaledonian.com\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2024-03-20T15:00:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T15:00:01","slug":"elementor-2879","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wichitacaledonian.com\/?p=2879","title":{"rendered":"History Lesson, Part Deaux"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\/*! elementor - v3.19.0 - 07-02-2024 *\/<br \/>\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style>\n<h2 contenteditable=\"true\" data-elementor-setting-key=\"title\" data-pen-placeholder=\"Type Here...\"><\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s All True, We Promise&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>From the barren fields of DooDah came a Pipe Band. A band with a mission. A band with able-bodied persons of hard-fast gender. A band with a dream. This band was the Wichita Caledonian Pipes &amp; Drums, and even though we were mis-pronounced most of the time, there was no trepidation.. Except for money. And a place to rehearse. And matching kilts. And good drums. And gigs.<\/p>\n<p>The band began a very vagabond existence: rehearse \u201chere\u201d on week, \u201cthere\u201d another; haven\u2019t seen that dude since last month; I left my pipes at home (this is true. As a side, how the hell does a person show up at Pipe Band rehearsal sans bag pipes?); I don\u2019t know that tune because the clown in charge of the battery hasn\u2019t written the score yet and i need to practice and there\u2019s no way i\u2019m gonna site read this stuff in front of people and by the way do i need special socks for this gig and where do i get them and what shoes do i wear and i lost my drum sticks but it\u2019s cool i have jazz brushes to use and let me just run out to the car and oh i gotta go see ya next week. Maybe.; sorry I\u2019m late, I went to the \u201cother\u201d church; so, so many struggles. Hard times for our intrepid band. This is true.<\/p>\n<p>Slowly. Painfully. With extreme intentionality (not true) did the WCP&amp;D grow. Much like the dandelion in a drive way they set roots, stretched for the sun, flowered and finally began pissing folks off! The first St Patrick\u2019s Day tour was a hodge-podge of gigs that left both the band and the crowds in a stupor. Bar owners had never seen such vigorous sales thanks to the stirring emotions wrought forth in their well-imbibed patrons and were more than pleased to pass on their boon to their new favorite Scottish music troupe who lives on an Irish holiday in a town with an Indian name! This is questionably true.<\/p>\n<p>Again, we skip the commercials and land in the time of high cotton for our beloved Pipe Band. Some number of years have passed and we have truly developed toward the realization of being \u201cgood\u201d (for those not familiar with music industry jargon, \u201cgood\u201d means that a musical act doesn\u2019t suck as much as they could). We\u2019ve played in our Nation\u2019s Capital, Boston, Philadelphia and all over the mid-west; we done more parades and bar gigs and concerts than the local typewriter repair dude; we have played tribute for several fallen heroes (this is our biggest honor-this IS true) and even produced an album of our tunes! We\u2019ve seen dozens of members join and depart the band-some for incredible life changes, some because their address remained unavailable for a, uhm, talk . . ..<\/p>\n<p>Here we are, in our 18th year of what began as a \u201chey, whadya think about this\u201d idea. And, if it\u2019s possible to be humble and say \u201cstill the first, still the biggest, still the best\u201d, we would (this is true). At the end of the day (because cliche is the worst thing to put in writing and this essay is deplorably shy of those), we\u2019re still getting \u201cgood\u201d. Always will be \u2018cause we have too. But, check us out, have a pint and a chat. Give it a listen, take a lesson (we teach for free!) and become a fan. The WCP&amp;D guarantees you like it. This is true<\/p>\n<style>\/*! elementor - v3.19.0 - 07-02-2024 *\/<br \/>\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wichitacaledonian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/FB_IMG_1710633254495.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wichitacaledonian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/FB_IMG_1710633254495.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wichitacaledonian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/FB_IMG_1710633254495-300x225.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wichitacaledonian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/54521488_10158519811694569_5491438544922607616_n-300x284.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wichitacaledonian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/54521488_10158519811694569_5491438544922607616_n-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wichitacaledonian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/54521488_10158519811694569_5491438544922607616_n-1024x970.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wichitacaledonian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/54521488_10158519811694569_5491438544922607616_n-768x728.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wichitacaledonian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/54521488_10158519811694569_5491438544922607616_n-1536x1455.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.wichitacaledonian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/54521488_10158519811694569_5491438544922607616_n.jpg 2048w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s All True, We Promise&#8230;. 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