This tune captures my soul and I am so happy that it has captured yours too. 💗 I wanted to thank you all for your comments and support. I read each and every one! Sharing this music and opening up my world to you has changed my life! Music speaks all languages and carry’s the heart of the musician to those who listen. Thank you for listening and sharing your hearts with me. Sláinte, Tress Dark Isle Piper

@Jeanette Reynolds When you march, or just stroll, your walking steps help frame your rhythm. (Be glad you don't have a third leg!)

I'm Irish/ Scotland..born and raised in Northern Ireland

@Jeanette Reynolds I found the march makes the playing easier. You've got the beat, in you.

@1LaOriental It is one of the great funerary tunes in the Ceòl Beg, the Small Musics. Ceòl Mòr, the Great Musics, is full of laments, but you have to be into that music to truly appreciate them.

Now 80 ; I remember hearing a piper by a loch somewhere in Scotland on a cold and wet summer day ...I come from the Basque country, and although I was only 20-something I could understand what this meant to you.

In all the world there is no instrument like the bagpipes. They send chills down my back and touches me in a way that I can't explain. I think there is some kind of magic going on in them.

It's in your blood son. You are a wild creature, a beast

Try wringing pipe tunes through an electric guitar if you're already a guitarist.

It's the drone note

*Rebel Blood.* 🗡❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I agree… it calls to the soul!

I plan to have this played at my Mums funeral in the next few days,I'm overwhelmed by grief just listening to this,and thats before the final farewell takes place...such a beautiful haunting lament 😢💔

We played this at mums funeral,so many tears and so much pride,we are scots

I hope that this tune brought you healing🙏🏻💗 I’m so sorry for your loss.

As an old piper, I must commend your mastery of the instrument, and more importantly, the soul that you inject into your playing. Well done!

Thank you Ken… I’m always filled with joy when I pick up and play my pipes. I’m glad you feel the spirit of them.. they heal my soul.

The McGregor stamp of approval, solid...

I come back only to weep again, because this reminds me that I am human. This music enables you to actually see down through the corridor of time, to see beautiful things, and very painful things too. It's not something that can easily be put into words, or described in language. It's utterly moving, and it tears you gently apart.

@Fair Human I don't think that matters... they make it there own

@Fair Human Just had to, didn't you, dickhead.

@Malcolm Lagares the bag pipes didn't originate there. They came from North Africa.

@Polythene Prentiss Thank you. The bagpipe is one of my favorite instruments of all time. For me, musically speaking, it is the voice of Scotland.

Wow, beautifully said!!

"In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow          Between the crosses, row on row,        That mark our place; and in the sky        The larks, still bravely singing, fly     Scarce heard amid the guns below..." A moving rendition, thank you for sharing.

@George Koskimaki Don’t worry, the majority of folk will understand your valid reference and sentiments. And the know it all commenter got John McCrae’s rank wrong, he was a Lieutenant Colonel. Ian We will remember them.

@Nora Hollin Never said it was anonymous internet entity that presumptuously thought to add an unnecessary comment

Two completely different songs,Mate.Flowers of The Forest was written by John Skene in 1513 to commemerate the Scottish loss in The Battle Of Flodden.In flanders Fields was written in 1915 to commemerate the WW1(Great War)dead.It was written by Lieutenant John McCrae.

This is not Flanders Fields,two compleately different songs,Mate

I'm from Botswana and i love Scottish bagpipes so much. This song gives me unending peace and hope that things will be okay ....

To the memory of HM Queen Elizabeth II, war-time soldier and loyal public servant. Elizabeth passed on in Scotland, and this sacred lament is most fitting.

Rest in love Mama.

@ewa Oh, I thought it was Sleep, Dearie, Sleep.

💙

The pipes were so incredibly poignant and brought a tear to my eye

@ewa I was about to say the same thing. By God, when the pipes played the tears flowed.

Honestly one of the most moving pieces of music I have ever heard

🙏🏻💗 Thank you!

I'm from Northern Ireland.. I have Scottish blood.. I have lived in Fife Edinburgh and Glasgow... What a beautiful heavenly piper you are... This rendition brought me to tears of joy and sadness... Thank you so much x

Tel me a more sad, lament.

Thank you for this🙏🏻💗 These messages fill my soul with joy!

The pipes reach to the depths of the Celtic soul. We are the pipes, the pipes are us.

@Roma Invicta well, meat pies one way, haggis the other. Minced onion in both. Mince too, in a way. Mark, Learn, and Inwardly Digest, for sustaining cultural appropriation... 😌😇

you're god damn right

@G. H Where do you get your fantasy facts from???. Where do you think the people of Scotland, as we know it, came from??. Are you aware Scotland gets it's name from a Irish tribe called the scotti??.

@Guy Willoughby Scottish culture is not crap, no matter what your patronising opinions are. As for Braveheart being a nonsense, it's a enjoyable mix of historical events & artistic licence, that Fact seems to elude you, instead you have a anti Scottish rant to boost your ego.As for Scots 'owning' the pipes kilt haggis, now that is pure nonsense, despite Scotland being associated with all three.

Wow that’s beautiful I really feel that it’s so true I know very little of my Scottish heritage but every time I hear the pipes it makes my heart drop and awakens my soul just beautiful x

Hauntingly beautiful and fitting it was played at QE's funeral. It had me in tears. ❤️

I'm Scottish by birth, I live the last of my days in Argentina. Scottish pipe music is very dear to me. Many many thanks for sharing.

Я русский и мне тоже очень нравится шотландская музыка. Волынка - это отличный инструмент. I`m Russian. I also care about the pipes of Scotland!

@John Gray Hi John , thanks for your reply, which part of Scotland are your family from? David Gray

In answer to David Gray, you're almost right, well done, it's " anchor fast anchor" strange, you have the same name as my grandson in Edinburgh Scotland. God bless ,and take special care during these harrowing times.

“Anchor fast” John, the motto of the Gray family. David Gray

Hello again Maximiliano, John Gray here. Thank you for your kind words, one wish I have before I " pass on" I'm almost 83 now, would be to meet you, there's so much I could tell you. As you've probably read others comments on Scotland, it truly is a beautiful country. My wife Susana, born here in Argentina, considers herself more Scottish than Argentinian. One of her wishes is that we could have a second marriage in Scotland. She's deeply in love with my family, friends, and Scotland in general. Again many thanks, please be careful during these terrible times. God Bless, John.

This is beyond words. Sad; wistful; melancholy. The very definition of hiraeth... Thank you dark isle piper. Great to see women playing the pipes!!

@Dark Isle Bagpiper I love your instrument?

Thank you for watching!🙏🏻👍🏼

This is an outstanding version and rendition of this most sacred piece of music from 1513. It has the respectful timbre required for bereavement and funerals. There is no better version on YouTube than this. As a former member of (New Scotland Yard's) the London Metropolitan Police Force's New-Style Cadet Corps I propose to use this piece where our small and rare membership gradually begins to pass away. Scotland Yard and New Scotland Yard themselves were central in earlier diplomatic relations between England and Scotland. Our late and beloved Drill Sergeant George Pether, B.E.M., used the Pipes and Drums in much of our training and ceremonial music - fitting given that Great Britain was formed through King James 6th of Scotland inviting the kingdoms to unite, and choosing London as its capital city. In our police ranks were many proud Scots, English, Welsh and some Irish. Thank you for this wonderful rendition and for the equally fitting and majestic video of a lone piper. In the grateful Gaelic tongue of my own Manx nation: "Gura mie ayd!"

It's "yindyssagh" to see someone who speaks any manx at all. Gura mie ayd indeed!

I'm an American with most of my DNA coming from England, Ireland and Scotland before 1700. Something deep in me hears that song and feels the need to come back home after over 300 years of roaming. A home sickness from generations long gone. We here in Appalachia kept much of the music and traditions alive passed down from generations.before.

@F as an Appalachian with more than 87 percent UK heritage (The rest comes from Scandinavia and Finland) we remained Protestant ulster peoples.

Generally speaking Appalachian people are more of Ulster Protestant/Lowland Scots heritage, which was more of a culture rooted in the Anglosphere, rather than the Gaelic cultural sphere of Ireland and the Highlands where piping music is associated with, but appreciation for good music isn't limited to your DNA.

In 1513 The Scottish army led by James 1V was crushingly defeated by the English army of Henry VIII. This tune commemorates  the loss of the many young men slain on Flodden field. The Flowers of the forest are all wede awa.  Nowadays this tune is traditionally played on Remembrance day and at military funerals. Lovely rendition.

Total wank bag

To the battles we've won, and a few that we lost, Here's a health to the back of Shiehallion!

@Lochdochart Lad, lad, you needed a much bigger, richer economy to have it come out different. Didn't happen.

@wolfthequarrelsome Thank James the First and Sixth.

@Tom Zielinski Centuries before Flodden. That was Scotland's Teutoberger Wald for martial catastrophe.

I grew up in the Chicago area and had a friend whose parents were from Scotland. They would spend the summers in Glasgow and Aberfeldy. I went along with them when I was 16. My friend and I purchased a Brit Rail Pass and traveled to Stonehenge to Wick and everywhere in between. I was awestruck by the experience. Scotland imparted in me this magical feeling that has stayed with me into my 50’s. Hearing your music and seeing the raw beauty of the landscape intensifies that feeling and puts me in a “Happy Place”. Great job and your talent is Greatly Appreciated.

My God! That is so beautiful. The bagpipe brings me to tears. This is a small piece of the soul of Scotland.

@Dark Isle Bagpiper I wrote a poem this morning about this video. I'm thinking of giving the title of Tress at Glencoe. It's a good poem. Who's clan colors are you wearing ? I titled it as Ode To Tress at Glencoe.

I love when music has the power to touch the soul and unite us all. Reminding us who we are.

This is beautiful... The pipes are such a hypnotizing instrument and your performance is this tune is very heartfelt and emotional. Beautiful

Such a sad lament, beautifully played by a piper with real heart and feeling. Thank you so much.

This captures my heart and soul in so many ways. It makes me long for a home that I've only had the pleasure to visit once 20 years ago. Thank you for this. I love it 💜

The most beautiful tune, haunting, brings tears to my eyes, huge like

The video wasnt long enough. I had to repeat a couple times. I'm so glad Manitoba has a good Scottish heritage (my own though being Mennonite ＆ Ukrainian) thanks to Lord Selkirk, that my family is often blessed with hearing beautiful pipes

Muito bom 👍👍

My mum was a very proud Aberdonian, when I listen to this I have tears in my eyes, my god do I miss her and my dad, who was English, till we meet again mum and dad, all my love

My mum was welsh met my dad in Bedfordshire army we are all welsh our grannie came from ireland but we all lived in southampton untill my children married scots moved to scotland as did I but now giong to move to N.ireland what a mix

cool,you are a mix of peoples,just like me.

Even though it’s a lament,I really love this piece,I attend the remembrance service in Belfast,and this is played, thank you for playing it ,beautiful

This tune is something special… it calls to those who understand the meaning and majesty. Without words.. we know.

Best ever flower of the forest I have ever heard. Beautiful.

What a beautiful rendition. It brings back memories of hearing Flowers of the Forest after playing the Last Post on Remembrance Sunday.

I played this beautiful tune at my father’s graveside. I struggled to finish it, I was fighting hard to control my grief with a lump in my throat. My bagpipes were played at the Somme by an Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders piper and I would like to play this tune there. It’s on my bucket list.

V enotional tune.

We are with you. My Grandfather David Armstrong was at the Somme and our forefathers at Flodden.

@Kris de Rycke Yes that would be great.

Hey JAZZ MAN, if you come here over the water and play at the somme, it would be grand to meet up and pay the tribute together.

Tom Snider Thanks, I need to exercise much more. Take care and keep well in these strange times.

Every time.... once a month..... and it shivers my spine. Amazing tune!!

Beautiful tune, beautifully done in a wonderful spot. Very moving. Thanks for this -)

Dear Dark Island Bagpiper, Thank you for posting this beautiful piece of music, it is MOST appreciated.

Maravilhoso.

Absolutely majestic.You play the pipes beautifully.Such a fantastic Scottish tune on the bagpipes and such a beautiful place.You make me so proud to be Scottish.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

What is it about this instrument that stirs up such emotion in me and so many others?? 💓🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The sound and vibration of eternal connection is what I believe you feel. 💕

They make me cry every time❤

@Dark Isle Piper, we laid my late Father to rest with your music sending him off. The emotions are still extremely raw, but couldn't think of a more appropriate and beautiful piece of music to pay homage to the man that meant the world to me in my life. Thank you xxx

I am honored… beyond honored, that you would choose to play this for your Fathers memorial service. I have no doubt he heard it and felt the power of love. Sending you love and peace with healing.🙏🏻💗

I cried hearing this on the funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II, what a moving melody

this music is not for ears, its for soul. Thanks and a huge like from me.

So perfectly expressed 💕

That was an amazing saying that brought tears of I don't know what.

thats it !

@Isabel Barradell it's exactly like I feel.... 🌷❤️🌷🇧🇷

I feel an thank as you've done!🌷👏👏👏👏

Thank You very much, when I listen to this, my soul seems to be transported thousands of kilometers away, to you, to such beautiful places, and I begin to feel such peace and calm, which I have never experienced before!

I was going to say this was other worldly but its not, its Scottish and its absolutely beautiful. 💎

Muito bom😍😍😍😍😍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏

Absolutely stunning!! Instant goosebumps. Thank you for such beautiful music.

Another song well done, I love your bagpiping. You do it so well, it's beautiful. 👍

Beautiful rendition of a tune that is always moving. Thank you.

Just saw/heard this on TV moments ago with the death of the Queen. Had to find it in here again, left me with quite a bit of teary eyes. Always loved this tune...... RIP Queen.

Música sublime profunda! Me encanta! Enamorada de Scotland!

They shall grow not old as we who are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemned. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them

And it happened again and again 😪🌺

@Liam Atkin "-- Lest We Forget!" Need a tissue? I do.

Lest we forget.

@Ian McCulloch ...And all our pomp of yesterday is one with Nineveh and Tyre.

Lest we forget

Phenomenal piping!! This is my go to version to learn this tune. Very expressive and clean.

What a beautiful and immersive performance. I can really feel this deeply, like I'm right there. I have a random question, perhaps a strange one - do you ever get so deeply into a performance that you drool? I ask because while I haven't played the pipes, I have played other instruments and I sing, and I get so into it that I'm prone to drooling and I wonder if I'm the only one.

Sarah Lear 😂 I love your question! I stopped with drooling once my lips got stronger.. but in the beginning it was bad! Lol I don’t drool anymore. I understand though!

Absolutely amazing such a beautiful strong piece of music truly mesmerising

That brought back lovely memories of a holiday touring the highlands in a Land Rover fifteen years ago. Thank you.

A good friend (and AMAZING Piper) played this as myself, my younger brother and both my brother-in-laws carried my wife into a crematorium yesterday. I could barely hold it together when listening before. Now, I CANNOT listen to this tune without crying. Truly beautiful music

Yes, please stay strong. I’m so sorry and I know and understand grief. This tune fills some of the spaces of my heart that has been broken from loss. May God bless you and keep you during this time and know you are not alone. 💗

AlbaWolf88 sorry for your loss my freind

Stay strong out there.

Absolutely beautiful and this song is beautiful as well

Belíssima canção, sinto que já Caminhei por essas montanhas, chega a dar uma saudade nostálgica muito real. Saúde e paz

Now one of the favorites of mine that is going to be played and cherished forever!

Played at the funeral of HRH Duke of Edinburgh. Beautiful moment

Except this was written for men who fought against the English, not for them.

@Steve Bob McJockSock royals never fought!

@Tomáš Pallya God Save The Queen

GOD bless him and may his soul R.I.P. until the end of time as we know it.

And at my dad's many years before

One of the most beautiful songs played on bagpipes. Never fails to give me goosebumps and it was played perfectly on this video

The pipes, much like the violin and the piano, are one of the most expressive and wonderful instruments known to man. They can make you weep, like this song did, or they can make you stamp your feet and shout for joy. Thank you kindly.

I did not want it to end. So incredibly beautiful. Thank you so much for posting it. 🌹🌷🌼🌸🌺🌻🥀

Stunning. I started crying out of nostalgia, and I'm not even Scottish, I'm just a redhead from Poland. God bless Scotland, the most beautiful country in the world.

I knew I was home when I landed in Glasgow after an 8 hour flight. I used to play, and I'm trying to type this through very watery eyes. Losing my index finger ended my career but not my inborn love of the great highland bagpipe. Nor did it end my longing to be back home again. 😥💔💕🌹

@klein Lasch Same here. I'm Dutch and bagpipes always bring tears to my eyes.

same here in Germany^^ since i was a child its overwhelming if i hear bagpipes i think in a former life we all was scotts^^

We are all connected.💗💕💗

I am also polish....but I love....oh boy. ..I love Scotland with all my heart...This is lovely country and very hospitable. God bless this country.

''Did they beat the drum slowly, did they play the fife lowly , Did they sound the dead march, as they lowered you down, Did the band play the last post and chorus, Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest.''

As the sun beats down on the green fields of France There's a soft summer breeze makes the red poppies dance Beautiful lyric

Come sit down on by my grave side....

I know the song, much loved.

Nací en España, pero tengo espíritu celta y el sonido de la gaita... me llega hasta lo más profundo de mi ser. Gracias, gracias por estar interpretaciones con un instrumento tan lleno de historia como la gaita.

Todo un placer escuchar esta música.Gracias.Un saludo desde México.

This moves me to tears almost every time I hear it. I love it, thankyou.

Absolutely beautiful!! I would love to sit on a rock and listen all day! Thank you for your time and effort put out!

💕 Your message is appreciated and more will be coming your way!

There's something that happenes when you listen to this instrument, you forget you are in your room and start to navigate with your mind untill the song is over and you come back to reality Or maybe it's just me who knows

I first heard this song as a three year old 55 years ago. My parents had a Kenneth McKellar vinyl long play record album. He sang this song with conviction. This version is superb, thank you for playing it so well.

Thank you for following and listening! 💕💫

Every time I listen to this song it makes me rethink my entire life.

I hope it inspires!🙌🏻🙏🏻

Awesome playing. Gives me goosebumps.

Beautiful! This brought tears to my eyes.

Thank you for the sweet melody. The music really touches one's depth .

Seeing this scene, I see myself climbing up to the top of the Great Blue Hill. Known to the original inhabitants of this land, in their native tongue, as Massachusetts.

Very beautiful !

Lindo! Essa música transmite muita emoção.

A beautiful tune, thank you for sharing Tress!

I’m not sure what just happened. This song invoked feelings. Almost sad, but uplifting? Not sure, but I wanted to fly over those hills...

Jar Mason it definitely carries the soul beyond❤️

Qui som maravilhoso!emocionante!

Excellent playing of this tune, was very impressed how you had a your drones tuned and there was no double tone and a prefect cut off.

Tudo combina: Música maravilhosa Paisagem magnífica Bonita instrumentista.

Magnífico solo!

This is so soothing and beautiful. After knowing the history behind it, the melancholy of the melody sounds even dearer❤️

Stunning and moving 💕

A sad piece of music beautifully played, I'm English and this brings rears to my eyes, sends shivers down my spine. Beautiful rendition.

That was simply wonderful. Soothing to my soul and refreshing my tired spirit. Just what i needed today. Thank you.

May it continue to give you strength’💗🙏🏻

This happens to be one of my favourite Scottish tunes. And as usual the scenery and video is very beautiful. God bless Scotland

Thank you for those few nice words Daniel, i'm an old 82years old Scot living the last of my days in Argentina with my Argentinian wife. But always there's a large part of me in my homeland, God Bless you in these terrible times.❤❤

Web of Life field school outside Santa Cruz comes to mind.

Absolutely stunning. Have the upmost respect for this song and Scottish culture.

So beautiful! The bagpipes always bring tears of joy to me. I've been to Ireland, and Scotland is such a gorgeous land too!

Right time, right place, right music.... for meditation! I swear I've done it....🌷❤️🌷👏👏👏👏👏👏

MARIA LUÍZA ▪️❤️▪️

I can only imagine how peaceful that day was for them. Its beautiful

É simplesmente lindo!!!

I'm Scottish. Through many generations. Nothing stirs me more than the "pipes". I think it's in the blood, DNA.

Correction: beautiful country 😊

@Dark Isle Bagpiper Hi, I'm from Germany so it's definitely not in my DNA. I didn't even like the pipes before coming the first time to Scotland. But they are so appropriate for this landscape and now I love them! And Scotland! Hopefully travels will be possible again in the near future and I can come back to your beautifuly country and lovely people! Greetings from Germany.

@NewWorldJacobite yes, also in the North of Portugal , where the Celts also lived and left some heritage, the bagpipes are still alive and played by some folklore celtic music groups. i'm from seaside southwest Portugal anyway but i know of those traditions being alive. I love Scotland by the way, visited such land and feel in Love, the landscape, people kindness and spirit. Unite your clans and ideals, without violence but be independent as it is you right! Forever Stand proud and bright Scottish children, men and women! and never surrender and honour your roots, Beautiful Scotland., Greetings from Portugal, i feel the Scottish spirit! Bless you all!

I think you're right. My ancestors emigrated from Scotland and Ireland to America long ago. Nothing stirs me quite like the pipes.

@kate marshall Most of Europe has a piping tradition of some kind. It's just been largely marginalised in most places for reasons I don't know. The Celtic fringe of Europe seems to have held onto it fairly well though. Rural southern Italy is another place that seems to have preserved theirs somewhat well.

Ya la escuché tres veces Las musicas indígenas o tradicionales me apasionan, Gracias de nuevo

There are two musical instruments that ALWAYS touch my emotions - the violin, and the bagpipes.

In 1938 my grandad s brother Thomas Davidson was killed fighting with the international brigade in the Spanish civil war. Flowers of the forest was whistled by his fellow countrymen when his remains left the shattered hillside for an unmarked grave.

God this instrument is overwhelmingly beautiful 🎶✨ Literally crying here 💔

Gracias por compartir hermosa melodia y lugar

Beautiful and stirring. Thank you ⚡️❤️🩸

Song reminds me of my grandparents and friends that have passed. Thank you 😪💖

Sending you love💗💕💗

Utterly beautiful. Brings tears to my eyes