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This weekend, Mackinac Island wraps up its annual Lilac Festival. The Glen Erin Pipe Band, a bagpipe band, will give a concert at 1:30 pm in the park Sunday, right below the fort.
"It's a penetrating sound, says Terry Carroll, band member and manager. "It evokes memories of battles fought long ago. And funerals but weddings too, which are sometimes synonymous. We really honor playing for police and fire ceremonial events."
The Lilac Festival parade starts later that afternoon at at 4:00.