Mini-tattoo ends festival

BANDSMEN from Ypres Surrey Pipes and Drums in Belgium helped bring the Leith Festival to a close with a mini-tattoo at La Piazza at the Shore.

The musicians were the first pipe band from mainland Europe to perform in a British tattoo.

Frederick Frayling-Kelly laid the groundwork for the first Leith Tattoo in 1997 when he assembled pipe band musicians to play the beating of the retreat.

It returned annually until it was decided to include dance and became a mini- tattoo in 2002.

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