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St. Andrew's Concert
with Scocha
Saturday 29 November 2008
Memorial Hall, Innerleithen, 7.30pm
Click
here to
order tickets (£11 each)
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THE ST. RONAN'S TATTOO COMMITTEE
Chairman - Mark Cockburn
Treasurer - Murray Charters
Members - David Allan, Wendy Fulton, Shelley Hamilton
The Tattoo Committee exists to organise various musical events in the
district, including the St. Ronan's Tattoo held in June (even years only).
The committee is also very pleased to support other arts groups, including
St. Ronan's Piping Society and Innerleithen Music Festival.
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THE ST. RONAN'S TATTOO 2008 - ANOTHER GREAT SUCCESS!
WHAT IS A "TATTOO"?
You
may have wondered why we call this form of entertainment a Tattoo. The word Tattoo is a corruption of an old Dutch phrase
"Doe den tap toe" - or "Turn off the taps". The practice
started during the campaigns of the First Duke of Marlborough in the Netherlands
in the 18th Century when drummers used to march through the garrison towns
signalling the innkeepers to turn off the beer taps and send the soldiers
home to their quarters in private houses where the reluctant residents
were forced to billet them. As barracks began to be built and the army
became more professional t he practice gradually evolved into a ritual
at the end of the day. Devout Russian soldiers had developed the practice
of singing a hymn each evening to give thanks for having survived another
day and in the last century the two elements were merged in the military
entertainment which we now know as a Tattoo.