Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2009 (CD): Honouring Scotland's Year of Homecoming, the Tattoo pays tribute to the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns. Featuring the overwhelming sound of the Massed Pipes and Drums, and culminating in the powerful finale performance of Amazing Grace. Also featuring Massed Bands of the Royal Air Force, the Central Band of the Swiss Army, Basel's Top Secret Drum Corps, the Calgary Burns Club Singers and the Royal Corps of Musicians from Tonga.

As always  the the Edinburgh Military Tattoo features the 'Massed Pipes & Drums'  - a thrilling spectacle which is a perennial favourite with both live and television audiences but which also thrillingly reproduced on this audio CD.  The Massed Pipes & Drums taking part in the 2009 tattoo are:

The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
The Royal Dragoon Guards
The Royal Tank Regiment
The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland
The Highlanders, 4th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland
The Royal Air force
The Australia Federal Police
The Auckland Police
The Cape Town Highlanders

The music programme played by the Massed Pipes and Drums is selected from the following tunes:
Johnnie Cope , My Love, She's But a Lassie Yet ,The Immortal Memory, Duncan Gray ,There Was A Lad, Sleepy Maggie, Tail Toddle, Puirt-a-buel,The Grey Mare's Tail ,The Grey Mare's Tail, Green Grow the Rashes O, Langton Gate, The High Drive, The Corn Jiggs, The Royal Mile, A Man's a Man.

Please Note: This product is an 'audio' CD. The DVD of The Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2009 will become available to buy at Foot Stompin'  in October 2009.