Music

Burials At Sea – Optional MUSIC and Bagpipes
Musical selections, poetry, readings and other requests are accomodated. White Cap is equipped with a CD and Cassette Player. Please alert the Captain in advance if you will wish to play music or other selections during the ceremony.

Optional Music and Live Bagpipes for Ash Scatterings and Burials at Sea

Musical selections, poetry, readings and other requests are accomodated. We are  equipped with a CD, Cassette Player and IPOD. Please alert the Captain in advance if you will wish to play music or other selections during the ceremony.

The Bagpipes of Dunvegan

 

 

piper-attairePiper, Mr. M. J. MacKay carries on this MacKay tradition by providing piping in full Highland attire from Ghillie Brogues shoes to a Glengarry cap and uses African Blackwood bagpipes for your burial at sea event.

Mr. MacKay was awarded tuition at the College of Piping P.E.I , The Invermark Piping School and the Gaelic College on the Isle of Skye Scotland to study.

Mr. MacKay’s services include greeting selections, interment selections and a departure selection.

In the event of a prior engagement, Pipes of Dunvegan has equally qualified pipers to stand in, with ample notice.

Bag Pipers Available for Burials at SeaAvailable Musical Selections:

  • Popular Memorial Tunes
    • 1. Amazing grace
    • 2. Abide with me
    • 3. Going home
    • 4. Chi min toma
    • 5. Danny Boy
    • 6. The Maureen
    • 7. Dark Island
    • 8. Flowers of the forest
    • 9. Loch Rannoch
    • 10. Rowen tree
    • 11. The Unfortunate Rake
    • 12. Shenendoah
    • 13. Oft in the stilly night
    • 14. Lord Lovatt’s lament
  • 4/4 Marches
    • Scotland the Brave
    • Rowan Tree
    • Wings
    • Flett From Flotta
    • Meeting of the Waters
    • Battle of Waterloo
    • Let Erin Remember
    • The Minstrel Boy
    • Bonnie Lass O’ Fyvie
    • The Cockney Jocks
    • The Children
    • Jimmy Finlater
  • 3/4 Marches
    • The Green Hills of Tyrol
    • The Battle’s Over
  • 2/4 Marches
    • The Road to the Isles
    • High Road to Gairloch
    • Wha Saw the 42nd
  • 6/8 Marches
    • Bonnie Dundee
    • Cock of the North
    • Atholl Highlanders
    • Irish Tunes
    • Let Erin Remember
    • The Minstrel Boy
    • Wearing of the Green
    • Kelly, the Boy From Killane
    • Mairi’s Wedding
    • Garry Owen
    • Men of the West
  • Slow Airs
    • Amazing Grace
    • Su Gann (Welsh lullaby)
    • Auld Lang Synne
    • Danny Boy
    • Highland Cathedral
  • Patriotic Tunes
    • Air Force Song
    • America the Beautiful
    • God Bless America