India’s Swamibapa pipe band is not your trendy troupe of long-haired lip-splitters strutting their stuff by belting out ear-splitting music to make hay. Indeed, the selfless pipers, drummers and drum majors of this 62-year-old offbeat musical ensemble are all virtuosi par excellence and also men of virtues.
The world’s first international traditional Indian-Scottish bagpipe band performs not just at rare religious and cultural events but also rises to the occasion by rushing to the scenes of natural disasters and raising funds for the needy in a jiffy, besides creating awareness about important local as well as global issues.
The Shree Muktajeevan Swamibapa Pipe Band, which has its five corps in the United Kingdom (UK - in Bolton and London), Kenya (Nairobi), the United States (U.S.) and India (Ahmedabad), casts a spell with its members’ special military-like, traditional Scottish bagpipe uniform that....
