Pipe band news from the East and West coasts.
(The following is a reprint of a July 22 story from Pipes/Drum magazine) All too often mainstream coverage of anything to do with Highland bagpipes is full of ridicule, jokes and derision, but a new one-hour documentary on Simon Fraser University and the Robert Malcolm Memorial pipe bands’ 2009 trips to Scotland will be aired …
Read more “Vancouver bagpipers to be featured in one-hour CBC documentary”
(The following is a news release from the Vancouver Police Pipe Band.) The Vancouver Police Pipe Band is performing in the 2010 edition of the Basel Tattoo, the second largest event of its kind in the world. The official Basel Tattoo started in its present location in 2005. In five years, it has quickly grown …
Read more “Vancouver Police Pipeband performing in Switzerland”
With summer parade season upon them, a legion pipe band in New Brunswick is in desperate need of new uniforms, drums, carriers and other gear that was destroyed when their practice hall, the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 93, in Oromocto, New Brunswick, burned to the ground June 11.
For many people who regularly attend highland games in the Pacific North West, you are likely familiar with the young pipers and drummers around the field in the MacKenzie tartan kilts. The Northwest Junior Pipe Band from the Shoreline area of North Seattle is a competition staple at most of the games in this region, …
Read more “Great weekend performance by young Seattle pipe band”
(The following post is from the Dowco Triumph Street Pipe Band website, which can be found here.) The Dowco Triumph Street Pipe Band had a winning 2010 Memorial Day weekend in only their second appearance at ScotsFest in Costa Mesa, California. Saturday’s Grade One Medley competition resulted in a second place (scores: 2,1,2,2) finish for …
Read more “Vancouver bagpipers and band have winning weekend in Costa Mesa, California”
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.”