The New Haven Gaelic Highland Pipeband
The New Haven Gaelic Highland Pipeband was formed in 1968, and has remained active for 33 years. We currently have about thirty members including new members who are learning to play the pipes and drums. Our band meets on Friday nights at the New Haven Gaelic Football and Hurling Club, Venice Place, East Haven, Connecticut. We meet at 7 pm and have chanter practice until 8 pm. We then pipe until nine-fifteen. We are always looking for new members. For information please call Charlie Morrissey, (203) 239-1235.
Our band kilts are the MacKensie tartan, pleated to stripe. We wear a black pipers tunic, white hose and glengarys.
We participate in many parades and other stand-up jobs during the year. Our members come from all walks of life including students and retired people.
Ellen Waff is a folklorist, singer and herbalist in the ancient Celtic
tradition. She sings with Fol-de-Rol, a British folk trio who perform
yearly at the Maryland Renaissance Festival. She has recently moved to
Middlefield, CT, where she sings with the Greater Middletown Chorale.
She has a particular interest in “enchantment” - the art of
magical singing/poetry. Ellen is a wirter, and has published peices in
the Baltimore Sun and in Midwifery Today magazine, among others. She is
planning a medical herb garden at her “new” 1741 home in Connecticut.
A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland for ten years, she
will be presenting progams on William Butler Yeats, and on the Poesy of
Fiona MacLeod.
Contact 860-346-4126, <william.ellen.waff@snet.net>