No one likes to have anything stolen from them, and it’s particularly annoying when it’s a set of bagpipes.  This act of theft is a long way from British Columbia; however every bagpiper and drummer should keep their eyes open in case this instrument shows up on a vendors table during a Games, or on …
Top 10 list of the best Pacific Northwest Highland games and bagpiping events in British Columbia and beyond.
The World Pipe Band Championships 2010 is ready to launch. Organizers are inviting all pipers and drummers and pipebands to come to Glasgow Green at 12pm, May 3, to play two tunes: Highland Laddie and Scotland the Brave. If you can’t make it to Glasgow for this event, fear not. Wherever you are in the …
Read more “Calling all bagpipers, in BC and beyond! Help launch the World’s 2010.”
Here’s a YouTube video of the Dowco Triumph Street Pipe Band, of which I am a Director. This is the band’s medley from the 2009 World Pipeband Championships in Glasgow, Scotland last August. This was the “new” band’s first time competing in the World’s Grade One competition and they made the “cut”, in other words, …
Read more “Vancouver bagpipers at the 2009 World Championships in Scotland”
Bagpiping in British Columbia is a lot of fun. But think of what can happen with 2,500 bagpipers and drummers in Las Vegas?
The skies are clearing, the weather is warming, and the days are getting closer to when we can get our bagpipes out of the indoor air, and out into the great outdoors.