It's a parade, and you could hear the marching band playing the popular jazzed-up version of When The Saints Go Marching In by Louis Armstrong. It’s a pretty spectacle with musicians with bagpipes in Scottish outfit, kilts et al with the tartan patterns. While the song is originally about Afro-American emancipation, the ‘Saints’ was probably localised to refer to the St Xavier’s Institution, which is just further down the road from Merlin Hotel, then owned by Boon Siew, and who commissioned Tay Mo Leong to paint the marching band originally for the hotel’s bar but it had since been removed. Incidentally, there is a World pipe band championships which is held annually in Glasgow, Scotland. Tay Mo Leong was conferred the Dato'ship in 2009, the year the Penang State Art Gallery accorded him a Retrospective. He graduated from the Taipei Normal College in 1960, and had a stint at the Art Centre in Longboat Key, Florida, in 1970. His awards include the Osaka Government Award in 2003, and the Nippon Modern Art Association’s Foreign Minister Award (Osaka, 1997). Apart from solos in Paris (France) and Miami (United States) in 1967, he was also included in the Sao Paulo Biennale in 1969, the travelling Malaysian Art exhibitions in Australia and New Zealand in 1970, and the Bale Salon Switzerland in 1975. He was also in the Penang State Art Gallery’s board of trustees from 1982-1990, serving as chairman in 1989-1990. He co-founded the Penang Watercolour Society in 1985 and had served as secretary in the Penang Art Society for more than a dozen years. Together with his wife May Liang, he founded the Gallerie de Mai, which also doubled as an art-supply shop.