HAMILTON – Thanks to music legend Paul McCartney, Scotland came to the Hammer Friday night. Article content

You didn’t have to go to Scotland to hear or weep to these beautiful and mystical bagpipes and drums. Article content Article content

The Paris Port Dover Pipe Band walked off the TD Coliseum stage after performing Mull of Kintyre to perform at the renovated forme r Copps Coliseum on opening night.

“As I was walking off the stage I could see the (Scottish guitar handler) wipe his eyes of tears before he could bring the guitar up to Paul,” said Pipe Major Gord Black.

He wasn’t alone.

“It was a very emotional moment,” said Black. “A lot of us were fighting tears.”

Paying homage to local pipe band

McCartney, 83, even acknowledged this — saying how he had a number of p

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