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There was a bagpiper there my first time in 2016.The pipe player was there when i walked in the first time in 2019.
Odd, he was there June 1st, ´14!!There was no bagpiper at the end of my first camino in 2004 nor for any of the next years through 2014. However the cathedral bells always sounded wonderful.
I didn't see your guy, Rick, but I walked through on May 16, 2015 and heard the bagpipes loud and clear. I guess he was taking his del dia lunch break when you passed by.I don't remember one in July 2015. When did you get there in 2015 Chris?
There was one near the 100 km mojone though (a kilometer or so away).
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There was definitely a piper there when I finished my first Camino in 2013.Leading off from another thread, which will remain anonymous, I am curious to know when they started playing the bagpipes in the archway leading into the Praza de Obradoiro. They certainly weren´t doing it in the late 1980s, and I don´t remember there being a bagpipe player the first time I strode triumphantly into the Praza in 2012. Bagpipe playing is thirsty work, I have been told, so maybe the resident piper was off boosting their fluid intake, but I´m not sure if they were there in 2015 either. Now they seem to be a regular feature, a feature I suspect the Xunta tourist office may have a hand in, but does anyone know who the players are, how they get the gig and when they started?
I have also seen a guitarist and violinist playing there.I've been there when it was a guitarist so maybe they also switch out with other buskers.
There was a bagpipe player for me in 2016, too, but I don't remember one in 1989. I'm sure that narrows it down a lot.There was a bagpiper there my first time in 2016.
And in 2019 there was a woman singing opera in the afternoon, by the morning the piper was backI have also seen a guitarist and violinist playing there.
I'm never quite sure if people give them money to encourage them, or maybe to make them go away?Might one ask ‘when will they stop?’
The latter.I'm never quite sure if people give them money to encourage them, or maybe to make them go away?
FAR too early in the morning.Leading off from another thread, which will remain anonymous, I am curious to know when they started playing the bagpipes in the archway leading into the Praza de Obradoiro. They certainly weren´t doing it in the late 1980s, and I don´t remember there being a bagpipe player the first time I strode triumphantly into the Praza in 2012. Bagpipe playing is thirsty work, I have been told, so maybe the resident piper was off boosting their fluid intake, but I´m not sure if they were there in 2015 either. Now they seem to be a regular feature, a feature I suspect the Xunta tourist office may have a hand in, but does anyone know who the players are, how they get the gig and when they started?
For some reason I have had it in my mind for a long time that my second Camino was in 2002. But your post prompted me to look again at my Compostela for that walk. Sure enough it says 16 October 2001! And although I had a solid Presbyterian upbringing by that point I had defected to the Anglicans...There certainly was on 16th October 2001. I walked into the plaza with a young German pilgrim and she said "They must have heard Roland (a Scottish Presbyterian minister walking with our "shoal") is arriving and they've laid it on in his honour!"
What a coincidence! Can you believe it's been 23 years? I've been reading my journal this past week - shocking how naïve I was then.For some reason I have had it in my mind for a long time that my second Camino was in 2002. But your post prompted me to look again at my Compostela for that walk. Sure enough it says 16 October 2001! And although I had a solid Presbyterian upbringing by that point I had defected to the Anglicans...
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I found my 1990 Camino diary last year when putting all my house contents into storage. I thought I'd lost it years ago. A little sobering to realise that the person writing was less than half my current age! On my first solo journey abroad. No live music on that first arrival in Santiago but a souvenir shop in the Praza da Quintana was playing a tape by the wonderful Galician group Milladoiro. A young woman in front of me turned to her partner and said "They have music like this in Scotland." Exactly my thoughts at the time!What a coincidence! Can you believe it's been 23 years? I've been reading my journal this past week - shocking how naïve I was then.
Wow, 1990. Just 4918 Compostelas issued!I found my 1990 Camino diary last year when putting all my house contents into storage. I thought I'd lost it years ago. A little sobering to realise that the person writing was less than half my current age! On my first solo journey abroad. No live music on that first arrival in Santiago but a souvenir shop in the Praza da Quintana was playing a tape by the wonderful Galician group Milladoiro. A young woman in front of me turned to her partner and said "They have music like this in Scotland." Exactly my thoughts at the time!I bought a tape of their "O Berro Seco" album. Now available on YouTube. Listening to it even now takes me straight back to that time and place.
Indeed. Looks as though this year will be about 100x that number.Wow, 1990. Just 4918 Compostelas issued!
We celebrated the completion of our camino in 2018 by staying in the Parador. Turned out, our room was very close to the bagpiper! We fell asleep listening to those dulcet (?) sounds!Might one ask ‘when will they stop?’
I know that Dublin has it strictly regulated. Grafton Street is THE place, you are allowed a one hour slot and have to have a city licence.Sounds like it is an informal system that grew up out of busking in the 1990´s with busking in the arch a regular thing by 2001. I had a friend who busked in London underground stations way back in the 70´s and they had the same system, intending buskers would meet together and arrange who had the pitch and for how long. If anyone has any more info, please share it. I´d love to know more.
There was the bagpipe player in 2013. I couldn't tell you of it was the same person or not.There was a bagpiper there my first time in 2016.
I'm curious how you know this?They are paid employees of the Junta, all of them.
There’s a link in post 24 that says otherwise. Incidentally, it is Xunta, with an X.They are paid employees of the Junta, all of them. They regularly rotate and play to a schedule.
Yes, there was when I came in as well. The sound of the Gaita from afar then and every time since has moved me to tears. I´m one who donates money for them to never stop greeting us.There was a bagpiper playing in 2009.
Saying Junta for Xunta is similar ( not the same) as saying Ourselves for Sinn Féin.They are paid employees of the Junta, all of them. They regularly rotate and play to a schedule.
Tá fáilte romhat.Apologies, my grasp of Spanish and indeed Gallego is appalling at the best of times. Xunta, of course!
Ach, go raibh míle maith agat
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