Taylor Swift Gets a Touching Welcome to Scotland With Bag Pipe Performance of ‘Love Story’

Taylor Swift has been greeted in Scotland with a unique bagpipe performance of her hit song “Love Story” ahead of her Eras Tour. The next leg of her tour will take place at Edinburgh’s Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium on Friday, June 7.

The Reel Time Band, an 11-piece ensemble featuring eight highland bagpipers and three drummers, performed outside the stadium wearing kilts altered for the occasion. The stadium’s sponsorship signage was temporarily changed from “Scottish Gas” to “Scottish Lass” to highlight her heritage, which she disclosed to fans at a 2015 concert.
Roddy Deans, pipe major of The Reel Time Band, expressed his excitement, stating, “Taylor’s tunes translate surprisingly well to traditional Scottish instruments. We’re all huge music fans, so we’re delighted to help welcome Taylor to Scotland in the best way we know how.” He also revealed that the band dedicated 32 hours of rehearsal to perfect their rendition of “Love Story.”
In a TikTok video posted by Us Weekly of the performance, fans were quick to voice their opinions of the rendition. “Wow! Edinburgh went all out!! So impressive!!!” commented one fan, while another fan observed, “These bagpipers need to have their own set to open for Taylor.” One fan noted the band should do other covers, commenting, “If they did this during the bridge to smallest man who ever lived with the drummers it would be absolutely epic.”

As per TMZ, the Circus songstress recently spoke about coming to terms with forgiveness. She took the time to deliver a lengthy post on Instagram but later deleted it. She wrote: “All I can do is try to be awakened by prayer than connects me to a loving manner not made of fear or threats, but by trying to forgive the people who made the right side of my body have serious nerve damage where I can’t even think sometimes. I have to be the bigger person and forgive my own parents… but that’s extremely hard!!! I will do my best to let it go and not let others down by my anger !!!”
It was uploaded shortly after Spears claimed that her mother Lynne had called emergency personnel when she had hurt her ankle at the Chateau Marmont Hotel one month prior. “Britney was crying in pain and she called Lynne in Louisiana to tell her what had happened,” a source told The Daily Mail. “At the time, Lynne was the only one who knew that she had hurt herself. Lynne asked Britney if she was okay mentally and Britney told her mom that she was fine and it was just her ankle. Lynne called 911 and told them that Britney was having a breakdown and had injured herself. She knew that Britney was in a traumatized state.”