The ongoing lockdown due to the corona virus has resulted in the cancellation of hundreds of festivals and celebrations around the world. In Scotland one major disappointment was the postponement of the celebrations to make the 700th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Arbroath. By way of some kind of compensation, two tunes were written and are reproduced here.
Of the first tune, Stuart Letford wrote on the bagpipe.news website
“This is a lovely tune and we suspect Pete may have wanted to debut it at our annual competition which was supposed to take place in Glasgow at the end of March..’