Well, it's all over - the pipers are all on their way home again after 16 days in a bus and then 3 days at the Auckland Folk Festival.
I can't remember how many concerts we gave - some formal and others impromptu. We are now all good friends, though many were strangers at the beginning of the tour. There were 21 pipers, the youngest aged 12, and a bass player. Then halfway through we were joined by Pete Grassby with his collection of melodeons.
Most of them are keen to return and another tour is being planned already, for 2009.
Cheers,
Robyn